Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve been in the studio and even longer since I’ve written a blog post. Life has been crazy the last 12 months or so but 2020…well I’ve decided it is time to slow down.
While I took a holiday my mojo also decided it was time to take a holiday and to be honest, it’s been really difficult to get back in the groove. It was time for a studio day but where to start – gosh I literally had no idea. What do you do when that happens? I really didn’t feel like doing anything which needed much thought but knew I wanted to play with some clay. Out came the visual diary and some paint chips with the idea of creating a nice colour palette – perhaps colours I don’t normally work with. Putting colours together is always a fun thing to do. Googling colour options provided me with a huge range of colour inspiration. Sometimes it can be “overload” and quite overwhelming but I just let my eyes skim the screen and found images which made me happy.
Using some of these images as inspiration, I chose colours which appealed to me and which I thought would work well together.
Next I mixed something similar in polymer clay. Now I’m certainly no guru when it comes to colour so didn’t really mind if my polymer didn’t quite match my paint chips – near enough is good enough.
Feathers seem to always pop up in my studio from time to time (I really do love them) so I thought it might be nice to play around with some feathers and create different designs on each one using a variety of polymer clay colour combinations.
As I was working I kept getting ideas about how I could use these feathers, different design ideas for each feather, different feather shapes etc etc. Having my visual diary close at hand was invaluable as I could record thoughts as they happened. This will be fun to read back later and expand on some of the ideas or maybe not – it’s really up to me and how I feel. Just being creative was what I needed and playing in my visual diary satisfied that need.
This is way out of my comfort zone colour wise and “neatness” wise but it was a really nice challenge to start myself off for the year.
I wonder how you’re challenging yourself this year? Do you create in a visual diary? How do you find inspiration when your mojo goes walking? There are lots of things we can do to get our mojo back – it’s just making a start which is the hardest part.
Have creating you guys and will see you again soon.
Love Deb
Hey Debbie…..your feathers are so inspiring! They make me want to play with my clay. Thanks so much!
LuAnn in Oregon
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Hey LuAnn, I’m so thankful for your lovely comment. Hope you have fun playing with clay. xxx