Welcome! I’m Carolyn Dube – This colorful journey is all about the freedom of play!
Lately, I have been exploring how I perceive the world and how that impacts me. Art has been a great tool for this. One of Julie Balzer’s stencils reminded me of eyes – perfect for where my mind seems to be going lately.
In the video I use Dick Blick gloss polymer to seal the pan pastels. I love that I had such a slick surface to work on with the oil pastels because it let me “erase” easily. I may use this to seal more often instead of using a spray fixative which has to be sprayed outside.
The bunny hopped into my art when I didn’t even expect a visitor! I was stuck and stalled- feeling very uncreative so I just grabbed a paper and pencil and drew random lines all over it. Then a few colors to start filling them in. That’s when the bunny appeared. He didn’t bring me chocolate – he brought me something better- inspiration!
I found the bunny but then had that frozen feeling- no inspiration and no idea where to take it next.
I was getting frustrated so I decided to try something I rarely do – used black as the background. I totally hated it – even a day later. Yuck.
I cut out the bunny and tossed the black. I found another background I made long ago.
A bit of pan pastel and a Julie Balzer stencil. I tend to fill the entire page with a pattern so this time I decided to only do part of the page.
Colored in the leaves with Crayola crayon and gelatos for the flowers.
White oil pastel to make the flowers pop a bit more than they were.
Added the cut out bunny and a new black line around it.
Added Easter related words to the bunny with a Pitt pen.
My kids are not little any more but you’d think they were 4 years old since they have made it very clear they really really really want our Easter traditions to continue- so we’re cooking up an egg hunt to challenge them. Every year we have a different theme to the egg hunt and crazy clues to find the eggs. (Why did we start this? Should have just hidden eggs.) I wonder if they will still be over early Easter morning when they are 35!
Hope you had a wonderful Easter!
Linking up with Creative Every Day and Inspire Me Monday- if you have a moment stop by these great sites for a bit of creativity.
The mind is a funny thing. I have been scanning old family slides and I was struck by how my memory of the events and people seem so different from what is in the photos. I believe my memories to be accurate but the photos tell a different story. I don’t think the slides magically changed in 30 years so it must have been me that changed in that time. This quote and journal page summed up how I felt after I saw those old slides.
The purple base that I started with was made previously. You can see it being made in a video here.
Want more creativity? Stop by the great artists at Paint Party Friday and Julie Balzers!