New art and ideas!

I'm still playing around with a new prop that arrived today.  I fully intend to make a skirt out of it.  For today's "playtime" - i made a full character.  I didn't mean to do it but my original ideas spawned a new idea!   I just love letting things flow and go. 

ENJOY!!!!

Inspired?  Join me at the Women's retreat in July 2015.

Creating homework: A way to push yourself BEYOND your limits.

I don't know about all yall other creatives....
but sometimes you get "in the zone" creating for a lot of other people and you tend to let YOUR creations fall to the curb and be forgotten.

This year is a year of REMEMBERING!

Let's pick back up our ideas and visions...and ASSIGN OURSELVES HOMEWORK!!!!

I cannot say that I create every day - but every day IS an opportunity to create.

Today, I'm about to launch into a project that is hands-on and creating a prop for a future shoot.  But I also thought - WHAT CAN I DO TODAY in creation mode in the photography world???

I am re-visiting my Creative Live images again.  You know, the kind that keep calling you back...saying "come plaaaay with meeee" :)  Well, i stopped in through a journey of ideas into the image of Jane Love on the floor in the old abandoned seminary.

I wanted to play with some feathers that I've had for a while and make an interesting piece that says something else besides what I would consider normal.

I've been striving to push myself since Brooke's classes - and see what visions I can create what dream worlds can be concieved.  So far, I'm just playing - I'm learning - I'm growing.  Time management can be a mind suck when it comes to being an artist as I've just spent 2 hours distracted.  But out of this quick distraction I found some fun, ideas and future dreams.

Join me in welcoming another image into the family.................

and then, GO CREATE YOURSELF some homework!!! <3
show it...see it....think about it....write about it!

here is mine

Free flow writing.....

What a troubled and oppressed lady this is.  She is surrounded by clouds of dark and light and she struggles to find flight.  It seems as though she has fallen asleep and taken notice that someone is watching her.  What is she thinking? What will she do next? 

A great day to art-ify things!

so i'm prepping myself for a unique challenge....................

TEACHING and SHOOTING a workshop!!!!!!!!!!!

You could say really i'm partnered up with some amazing people: models, stylists, MUAs....we are about to have some crazee fun in Green Bay.

In prep for my time there....(of which i want NO wasted time!)....I started thinking of things and ideas i could work into our time together with modeling and art and props.

So in prep for my journey, I grabbed some goggles and will also have one more tidbit on the way in for my shoot this weekend.  I hardly feel ready, but i know that the magic happens when we also fly by the seat of our pants.  In other words, it is nice to have ideas...but just sit back and let it alllll unfold!!!! :)

If all goes well, (and we know it will) some of these will be published in select magazines for related topics and themes.  We have a *mini plan* in place...and next....to CAPTURE IT!!!!

Meanwhile, enjoy these silly images of me prepping for the shoot this coming weekend....

can you believe it is almost 4th of July?

Creating for OTHERS and Creating for myself.

I have a huge desire to co-create with my clients....ahhhhhhh the fun of taking some fun moments and making some unique out of their environment.  I gravitate towards a lot of shapes, lights and weird forms.  I have to say that this piece is definitely topping one of my FAVORITES so far this year...as far as a wedding pieces goes.  I barely had to do anything but bring to a reality what i had in my mind.  Things don't always come so fast, so i was pleased to see how colorful and crisp this came out!  All from a blend of their environment at the venue Buffalo Valley Event Center.

"Creating for them"....

Because I tend to have a LOT of emotions going already when I'm working..I decided to re-visit a piece I was working on for an art contest...and in doing so...i discovered the blend of past and present made a cool match.  I'm like totally diggin what I've done here with carrie.  Originally this was a form for a flashlight and my drapes.  Now, it has morphed into something I can only call the "opposite" of what I have felt in the past.  Where everything "seemed" so clear...but there were a gazillion things flying around...and a gazillion things ON me making life a little harder to comprehend with so little sight.  I find the beauty in this seeming chaos, but I know it is a place I don't want to live.  I like seeing more CLEARLY, now more than ever.

Both of these pieces have things in common....LIGHT - both factors are clearly stated in the various rays of light in the sun, the light sources, the shapes and textures.  I hope you enjoy them both!

"Creating for Myself"

Go out, enjoy today....and CREATE something unique that expresses your dual feelings!

Love Jen