Mind Block on Creativity Blog

I have craft and art materials around the home and I am feeling quite inspired to get into a piece of creative artistic craft work. I had my mum come over the other day and commented on one of my paintings. I'm thinking back of what she said and I am feeling inspired in making a new creation.

I have a empty paint canvas and some wooden templates and started a new art material in scratching layers to form it's beauty of the colors of the picture. It's getting later in the evening and everyone has retired for the night. I place all my pieces that I have formed in my head of this creation on the table. Do a checklist, Paint canvas, brushes, black and white paint. Fabric lace, sparkles, etc. I'm feeling that I am doing different sections thinking of each step that i'm going to do yet I am following a flow of creativity. The clock is ticking away and it's two and half hours later I can see a creation taking form.

The paint has tried and I place the new piece of art work on the canvas measuring up that i have it in the right place and then flip and glue the back. I'm thinking I need something to stop it lifting so it can glue on the canvas. I reach out to the nearest thing on the table. Stapler, bottle anything fairly heavy to sit on the canvas for a little while the glue does it's magic job. I start on the wooden templates after I have painted them black and start to put the craft gems and materials making the turtles and the fish in a world of fantasy and eye vision of the story I am trying to create. The piece with the color fish now look like a piece of paper glued on the canvas. I need something to decorate to really enhance the edges so it looks more then just this piece of paper.

I start to look through my ribbons and laces and placing them along the canvas to see what would stand out, check the colors match and what else I could do with it once it's glued down. The color I have chosen has this beautiful ribbon and it really stands out, but I need more to really set it out. The picture is multi-colored so I select little gems and glue them out. I glue down the finished turtle and fish and look at my picture to see what else can I do this piece without overdoing it. I want it to stand out with creativity and a piece that someone would like to hang up being different. My mind starts to wandering and it's ticking away so it my time. I think sea creatures - air bubbles - what can I use for air bubbles. so I go to my buttons and craft materials and find that I have heaps of cute little buttons that i have heaps of and have not used for a long time. Perfect. I look at the piece and I really look at it and think this is really great and something that I would not of thought of if I did not get inspired by a few words in a conversation. Listen and let that creativity inspire you.

Imagination Sea World Creation

Decorated with Beads, Lace and Paint

Poster Stratch Poster Decorated with Crafts