365 DAYS CREATIVITY PROJECT - MY DAILY CHALLENGE
NOVEMBER 2016
Trying something else
It's mostly the nights that comes with creativity for me... and then I can sleep :) Viking bracelet with red jade
OKTOBER 2016
Live, laugh, love! Feels good to be done with this project, and it's soooo tidy here now..
SEPTEMBER 2016
AUGUST 2016
Creativity comes in various forms. New cover photo for my Facebook page..
Made a page today abt a project I'm currently working on..
More jewelry - while waiting for inspiration to paint..
Part of the new cover photo for my Etsy shop
JULY 2016
Being out of painting-mood helps me finish up a lot of old stuff..
JUNE 2016
First painting in a series of portraits of strong and independent Fredrikstad-chicks. Check the link below for more info about the project
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MAY 2016
It's the first day and my mind is blank, There was no way I could express my feelings today on a canvas or a paper, but the concept for this challenge is, on a lower scale, just to create something. So today: magnetic board. I started with black matte paint, two layers. A white soft pastel chalks made the finishing touch. After a layer of non-yellowing varnish and a piece of hamp string stapled to its back the board is ready for use. The red chalks are easily removed with a damp cloth :)
They say life isn't supposed to be easy
My priority tonight was to have a couple of beers with a cousin and to enjoy the present, not to finish the wall art I had started earlier today. Therefore I'm posting a pic of a necklace I made a little while ago, and tomorrow you'll have a real piece of mental health to enjoy ;) hehe.. The necklace is available for any scorpio girl out there btw wink
I finished what I started yesterday... I don't think a description is necessary
The creativity came in a different form yesterday, but sometimes a cake gives more pleasure than some wall art ;) Customs orders are always very welcome, and especially the ones where the end results makes people smile and feel good. My dad's fiance is turning 80 tomorrow, and he asked me nicely the other day if I could make a chocolate cake for the event. I love baking, so why not? And it gave me the day off from thinking paint and pencils... And best part is: I get to taste too :)
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Project background
I don't think I had any clue what kind of preasure I laid on myself when I came up with this idea. I always want to impress, to make something extraordinary, and the fear of failure makes me so incredible vulnerable. Usually I get so commited to my projects and become so pedantic, that I'm doing nothing but abusing myself. Or I procastinate till there's so little time left that I just have to accept the 100% perfect result I really wanted is not possible. But that's one of the goals for this challenge anyway; to learn not to care so much for the result as for the process. To become nicer toward myself ;)
As a part of the gestalt therapy and my healing after some traumatic experiences in various forms, my therapist challenged me to start painting my emotions. There has been several people throughout my life who have been telling me that I should do just that, but at the same time I have been very committed to not be spreading any bad energy, which I have a lot of, saved up over many years.
This 365 days project started the 1st of May and will end April 30th 2017. For a full year ahead, at a daily basis, I am making something that expresses my feelings. Primarily I will make paintings or some fine art, but it is not always the body or mind have the energy needed. So those days the creative results are limited to a few pearls on a string or a dot on a sheet, I will still be patting myself on the back.
Some days I will write a lot, expressing what's on my mind. Other days I will not write anything at all, and just post a picture on Instagram. And I'm quite OK with that too...
I hope you enjoy my ongoing project!
'To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.'
E. E. Cummings