Arts and Wellness Cafe - How are you using your Creative Voice?

 

Come and join me for Arts and Wellness Cafe as we look at the way in which you use your creative voice.  There are so many talents in which you can share and it is a blessing to many around the world.  It can sometimes take a while to find your voice, but with practice and perseverance you can see it blossom in a lot of different ways.

We also touch on a few other areas to consider in your creative walk.  Making room for your gifts by getting rid of those things that do not serve or are just cluttering up your space, leaving you little time to really be creative.

I have been playing with some of the items I collected from the Artists Materials Bank and made some small stitched items so that I can get a feel for the materials before moving on to bigger items.

You will see in the video at the end how the materials looks and feels.

Fabric Selection

I love making the fabric stories and this is also a great way to see how the materials work together or with other items that you may want to work with.

Fabric Stitched Stories

With the smaller pieces you can play about with designs and even see if you want to go larger.  The smaller pieces are very therapeutic to work on and you can then put the smaller pieces together.

Fabric Stitched Stories with Trim

I had also got some beads in a similar shade and was able to see how the colours looked together.

Fabric Stories

This mini cushion was originally supposed to be a purse and got changed at the last minute.  The fabric that I was using was very versatile and I also found that when you frayed the edges you could use some of the threads in the project.

Mini Cushion

I got carried away and made a fabric glass case, I used a similar method to creating a pillow case.

Glass case holder

Mini Art Journal Cover and holder with some of the scraps that were left from the main piece that I cut

Mini Art Journal

It is always great to be able to create and plant for new things in the studio, it has been a slight distraction while I ponder on other projects to be complete.  Do let me know what you are up to and what kind of things pop up to distract you.

Creating an Art Journal Page - Faces

Creating a face and journalling on top is a great way to work in your journal and you can not only create an image you can also journal on top.

In this video I show you from start to finish two art journal faces, do the journalling and then finish off with encouraging words on the page.

I love being able to come back to a page and add additional marks.  The words in the page serve as further encouragement in my art journal process.

Supplies used - click on the links for Amazon store

Neo Colors

Gesso

Posca Paint pens

Arts and Wellness Cafe - Artist Materials Bank

Welcome to the Arts and Wellness Cafe, in this video I will be sharing about the Materials Bank that I have visited and picked up some items to create with.

The Materials Bank was initiated by the NCF (National Cultural Foundation) to provide a space at the Queens Park Gallery for supplies and materials that creatives can access for FREE.

Check out some of the things that I got on this visit.

I would also love for you to share about your creative journey, what are you working on at the moment, what creative challenges have you been having.

As always, stay blessed and be a blessing.

Wood Burning - Harvested Wood

 

Moringa Wood

I have been harvesting wood from my Creative Garden to use in my art projects.  I harvested Moringa wood from the garden and after drying out I used my Wood burning tool and created a series of pattens.

I decided that I wanted to challenge myself by using one tool and see how many different ways it could be used.  Check out the video to see how the piece developed.

Wood burning designs

I will be sharing more of the different projects that I will be using them with.  You can check out some of the Wood burning tools and supplies HERE