Creativity Prompts

Are you looking for a friendly supportive space to share your creative projects and be inspired?

I have a new little community on my River Girl Art Healing fb page where I post monthly prompt lists. Everyone is very welcome.

Washpool National Park

When it is hot, humid and horrible down here in the valley 

I love to pack a picnic and load the boys into the car

 and head up to the very beautiful 

and very refreshing Washpool National Park 

It is so lovely yo escape up into the mountains to this slice of wilderness

and stillness

With lots of different walks and crystal clear running water 

and cool pools to ponder

 There is a huge variety of plants and habitats 

Loads of birds, make sure you visit lyrebird picnic area

 to meet the cheeky local bower birds and lyrebirds

Or just take a seat and breath in that beautiful fresh air

and be surrounded by majesty. 

Finding My Mojo

                                                       

Sometimes life gets crazy

 and days and days pass 

and I have not done anything artistic for ages,

 in these times I especially appreciate the arrival of a travelling art journal,

 because it puts me back in touch with my art supplies

 and comes with a theme and I can do anything I want

-it is a great way to pick up the brush and start playing.

I hadn't painted a canvas for a long time but it was coming up to gifting season and I also had an exhibition looming so I posted a challenge for colour blocking on our Australian Art Swap Group on Facebook and I shared this video.

and this one too

and I jumped right in with this underlayer.

Next came the colour blocking part I really wanted to try.

This how it turned out in the end 

and it also turned out to want

to go and live with a very special girl who loves it :)

Thankfully for me 

because I seem to have lost confidence in my hiatus

 so that will be what I am looking for next.

Art Journal Pages

I have been looking back 

through some of my ever growing collection of art journals

 and I thought I would share some images.

I often do a page when I come across a great QUOTE. 

Something to help me remember it.

I first found this quote when I was making a card for a friend, 

I made her the card and a lovely gift for her birthday 

and the very next day she ended our friendship. 

I wonder if she didn't like my quote.

I am very inspired by the GODDESS.

By all the archetypal stories and legends 

and often explore these themes in my journals.

I am a TREE lover.

Every few pages another tree tends to grow in my journals.

They are the garden of my imagination.

The FEMALE NUDE  is another favorite theme,

this one was in a particularly textured stage.

It's like instant rewind, 

looking back through my journals

 and I can see the stages I was in at that time.

This page was unusual for me as I don't tend to draw angels,

I was playing around with halo's on everything around this time

 and it may have been inspired by a class or a video I had seen at the time.

A scrappy collage all messy and shabby.

I love doing pages like this.

When I have a pile of scraps 

on my table that is when a page like this evolves.

EARTH

Another passion of mine, 

all things earthy and great big boulders stacked up.

Oh look another TREE

this one inspired by the masterful

Gustav Klimt.

BIRDS

 are another beautiful theme I like to explore.

and 

WINDOWS 

and 

DOORS

Just what is out there on the other side ? 

I think its the architectural shapes and the symmetry that I like here.

The Inspiration

This week in The Elements
the fabulous on line art journaling course I am taking
at Wild Precious Studio
we are deeply exploring Earth
and being a rather earthy girl myself
I am totally enjoying it.

Earth to me is so many things
it is everything and in everything
and it is
TREES.

As a confirmed tree lover
I adore getting into the bush
or the rain forest.

After sharing with you the little fig tree I am making
I thought I might share the trees who are
the inspiration.

Look at these gorgeous trees,
at there wide and strong buttress roots,

at their adaptable
and spreading
firm hold on the earth

at their wide and many branched trunks,

this one even has doors and windows
tunneling through its base

such majestic beauty.