Princesses, Roosters and Dancing!

At last!  I can do art again, albeit mainly with my left hand.  Below are my efforts of this week.

While I was laid up I took the opportunity to search out all those blogs I had heard of but never had the time to visit.  I discovered some awesome artists. Two were so inspiring that I had to attempt some of the lessons learnt.

First of all Teesha Moore.  I sat and watched her videos yesterday morning on journaling.  Last night I sat in front of the TV and cut merrily bits out of magazines.  Sometimes things are meant to be.  In the weekend I was given sacks of glossy magazines by my friend who is selling up and with her husband they are buying a giant caravan and  are going to tour NZ for a couple of years.  I was to pass them around my friends!  Somehow I don’t think they will get a look in!

I managed to stick some bits on two journal pages that i already had painted a while back.  This morning I was going to look for a face for my Princess but gave up when I realised that I preferred to make my own face.  So after Physio, this morning I painted her face and added the houses.  I did the text as well, not happy with it.  But, not too shabby considering I was using my left hand.

I looked at the page above and it came to me I want there to be a rooster, think I will have to draw one or cut out a rooster head and put it on a human body.  The idea is to have text with the rooster crowing about all the blessings it has.  I couldn’t resist the gnomes.  They are slightly sinister and I thought they could represent the negative thoughts we have about ourselves.

I am happy with these but conscious that they scream Teesa Moore!  I think as I do more of them my style will emerge.

The other art that blew me away was Flora Bowley.  I have heard many of you mentioning her so googled her and found amazing art.

I watched her video last weekend and it really got me out of my pity party.  I thought I could do that with my left hand and first thing on Monday got out an abandoned canvas and started.  I didn’t do her dance, I would have tripped over my crutches!  But I let my hand dance with the paint.  Below is about three to four layers of paint, It is a reasonably large canvas 30in x 24in, and I got really messy doing it, some tell-tale paint on my sling too! Hehehe. 

 I was really happy with this and then fear set in.  What shall I do next I will ruin it etc., etc.  

Eventually I got my courage up and drew a dancing girl and cat and started to add paint.  It is what I call at the ugly stage and I wasn’t going to post it till it was at a better stage.  But I stopped myself and told myself, who cares! I think because I am getting to the stage where I want to add detail, I am finding my left hand is not capable of doing what I want, I have frustration.  But that will end as my right arm gets better.  As surely it is.  I can hold scissors and cut out, I can type now and hopefully next week I will be paint to do some painting!  But, I won’t push it, as being without its use has taught me how much I value it, so I won’t stuff the healing up.

Great to be back, and have a awesome Paint Party Friday weekend everyone.

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