Day 23 Chaotic balance

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10/23/12

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I take in life in perfect balance.” (lungs)

Day 23 Chaotic balance

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:  Waste not. Dig in a recycling bin for all of today’s materials.

Media:  Mailing envelope, running men cut out of drawing paper and colored with Sharpie, woven Smartfood snack bag and Ghiradelli brownie mix box, Strathmore watercolor paper pad cover, liquid glue pen, double sided tape 

Time:   1H:40M

Comments:  My attempt at depicting a lung on the right side of this collage seems to be more a statement about respiratory allergies this time of year in north Texas.  Used leaves as a motif for lung cutouts.  The white envelope was from a stack of vendor invoices I got in the mail at work.  The brownie box from a weekend treat I baked at home. The Smartfood bag from my attempt to stay alert at work when the afternoon lull started to kick in and I still had an hour long training video to watch.  Resurrected the running men from the recycle bin after another collage idea went bust earlier in the week.  

This one seems a little chaotic to me.  Maybe that's a statement in itself on the possibility of "perfect balance" in life?  

Link for more info:

http://www.ghirardellibrownies.com/

http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/smartfood-white-cheddar-cheese-popcorn.html

http://www.strathmoreartist.com/product-reader/items/400-series-watercolor.html

http://www.sharpie.com/Pages/GlobalLanding.aspx

Day 17 Digesting peace, dawg

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10/17/12 

Day 17 Digesting peace, dawg

Louise Hay affirmation:  “I digest and assimilate all new experiences peacefully and joyfully.” (indigestion)

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make something inspired by and/or that goes over an eye (yours or someone else's).

Media:  Magazine photos, glue stick, sunglasses, basset hound Sharpie sketch, cream chalk

Time:   3H

Comments:   Found this basset hound sketch I drew a year or so ago and thought it worked well for a theme of assimilating peace and joy.   

Day 07 Release the triangles

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10/7/12 

Day 07 Release the triangles

 Louise Hay affirmation:  "I easily release that which I no longer need.  The past is over, and I am free."

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:  Make a stencil and use it in your work.

Media:  Magazine photo of an amoeba-patterned tile mosaic, purple and blue ribbon, father-in-law Ray’s 30-40 year old triangle templates

Time: 1H

Comments:  According to Louise Hay, this affirmation is for colon health.  Purging the colon by purging “stuff”…  Sounds good to me.  Picked up the triangles on this past weekend’s trip to see the in-law’s in West Texas.  They are clearing out their house in anticipation of downsizing, and letting go of many old relics from their past.  A little melancholy when I think too hard about it...  On the brighter side, I remember learning to draft with triangle templates back in design school.  For all the good that computers have brought to design and drafting, I still sometimes miss the tactile nature of technical drawing back in the day.  Till this weekend, had no idea my father-in-law owned "ancient" drafting implements.  Guess we have more in common than I realized.