ONE STITCH AT A TIME - #241 - ANYTHING GOES WITH CHILLAXING



I love the images that are monochomatic (I first typed monotone - I guess it is the same thing, so to speak.)  They give such a range of motion for the art piece.

For this one I decided to go "Samara Crazy" and just see where it would take me - which meant Mixed Media.



Starting with the Sentiment seemed easy enough.  I meditated on that for a bit and decided my favourite place to Chill...in Nature.  So a nature scene it was.

Get out the trees (of course newsprint) the natural pastel colors, and the vellum.  Go with raw string rather than the gussied up stuff and don't shmancy fancy up the images.  Just play - use watercolor, pastel, crayon, prisma, cutting, pasting, pencil and let it evolve.






This was definitely influenced by a friend asking me yesterday what I thought about moving onto a desert island with them - getting away from all the influences of modern day.  I actually was quite intrigued, I fear to say, by the idea.  So the two people represent my friend and I, the 3 circles my cubs standing away and just allowing my process and all the "thems" up in the trees who may think it is the craziest (oh, not may - will) ever.  I figured we'd have string, trees, mountains, feathers, bushes, flowers and lots of time to just lay there and ponder, chill and visit - alone and together.

So my Chill project is also a preoject about romance...chilling with that romantic notion of moving on a desert island - away from it all!

Now is your turn.

How do you chill?  I'd love to see.  If you go over to ONE STITCH AT A TIME you can show us. We all consider Chilling in different ways - some clean, some beach, some eat....let's see what you do! 

Looking ahead to visiting your blogs.

Remember that 5 pack images from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet for the Winner!!!!

HAPPY SUNDAY
SAMARA

ONE STITCH AT A TIME - #241 - ANYTHING GOES WITH CHILLAXING

THEME:  Chillax (I know how to do that!)
DIGI:  Wishful Thinking and Dream Sentiment
ARTIST: Floppy Latte
STORE:  Stitchy Bear's Digital Stamp Outlet


What a great Theme!  I remember a time where I couldn't stand still.  A friend challenged me to stand still in the centre of a room for one half hour.  Yup - do nothing.  What?  Really?

I'd never heard of such a thing.

Try it - tell me what happens to you?

For me, it was murderous - but I kept at it, over and over and over. And I got it - it was a precursor to learning how to meditate, to do Yoga, to learn Mindfulness and increase insight to my behavior, thoughts and impact on myself and others.

It's brilliant!

It is now the only way to centre myself - to sit in Silence.

Alot!

And you?












happy chillaxing - 
or standing in the middle of your livingroom for one half hour!!!!
samara

MIXED MEDIA JUST FOR ME...

A DAY OF CREATING JUST FOR ME!

It isn't often this happens, but I have felt the need to just "mess things up" and get down to throwing things on paper.

You will see 2 pieces from the last 2 days - one is called "EYE EXAMINATION" and the other is a self examination - and named "BROKEN" - of the result of having a "BROKEN" Cell Phone, Computer and uncharged Ipad - and what that felt like.

It was glorious!

It was pure FREEDOM.

I now find I don't answer texts "in the exact second I get them", don't open my email each day and don't sweat if the Ipad isn't charged.

There have even been days where my only phone (my cell) has been left behind when I have gone on a day of errands.

WOW is this a nice transformation!

So here we go.


1. EYE EXAMINATION
2. FREEDOM










ENJOY!
Samara