LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 3 ~ Creative Exercises 4-7

I finally got around to finishing up the exercises by Carla Sonheim for my LifeBook Class Week 3. Although I am still not completely done with Week 3, I still need to complete the mixed media envelope for all of my little exercises to fit into. I am hoping to work on that tomorrow night.

These last 4 exercises were extremely tough but fun all at the same time.

Exercise 4: Imaginary Flowers - She had us take 2 pieces of scrap paper, glue them down, and then make flowers out of them.

Exercise 5: Animals in Tape - She had us throw down some washi tape and then look at them and try and make animals out of it. I got a dog, penguin, and a dancing bear.

Exercise 6: Found Poetry - She gave us a paragraph and we had to come up with 3 poems. I am normally very good at these kind of things but I surprised myself and came up with 4 poems. Also these inspired ideas for painting for the future.

Exercise 7: Blob Animals - She had us take some paint and just make blobs with it. Then we had to create animals from the blobs. So these came out so cute. The top one is a fairy dog, I saw this and then thought of the movie Coraline. The bottom left is a squirrel playing bagpipes. Then a fox on the bottom right. I think he is my favorite, and I saw him right away.

LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 3 ~ Creative Exercises 1-3

This week the Teacher was Carla Sonheim. She took us through 7 creative exercises to loosen up while drawing and creating. Then at the end she did an envelope to house all our little exercises. I completed 3 of the 7 exercises so far and thought I would share them with you. Some of them came out pretty funny.

Exercise 1: One Liners (Drawing with one continuous line without picking up the pen). She had us do 2 each of the prompts she provided. These are my favorites of the 5 prompts.

Exercise 2: Drawing a zebra with eyes closed. These were very interesting to get through.

Exercise 3: Pick 3 knick knacks and draw them with your non-dominant hand. I really struggle making straight lines with my left hand.

I love working on these exercises even though I struggled with them. They are great creative exercises.

Little World Social Studies Cover Designs

I designed these covers for a series of books we did at my job called Little World Social Studies. These books are for Grades K-3 and teach about growing up in America. They focus on different cultures, regions of the United States, and the government.

LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 2 ~ A Happy Affirmation

This week's class was led by Micki Wilde! She wanted us to come up with an affirmation of what we want to draw into our lives more. She then showed us some quick techniques for art journaling.

While she was going through finishing her page the first word that popped in my head was Shine. Then I started thinking about Stars and Space. This is what came out of that:

LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 1 ~ Inner Artist Guardian Angel

The main lesson for Week 1 of my LifeBook Course is to create your Inner Artist Guardian Angel. We were led through a meditation to find our Inner Artist Guardian Angel, our word for the year, and a color to use in our painting. When the meditation first started, I pictured myself at the beach. I think this has something to do with just being in the Bahamas and how beautiful the water was.  Then she guided us to an inner sanctuary. I pictured a little yellow cottage. When I went in the cottage the first thing I saw was my Mom as a fairy. She has always supported me in my art and told me I was my own worst critic. She has always been my biggest fan when it came to my art. All though I used Tamara's way of drawing the face, she comes across a bit younger, but my Mom has always been young at heart. I am very proud of the way this turned out.

Just to give some background on my Mom. She had a ruptured brain aneurysm back in 2011. She is now living in a nursing facility and is in a minimal state. She has just started responding a bit recently. My Mom is the biggest influence on the way I live my life.

The word that came to me is Intuition. The biggest thing I want to learn from this LifeBook Course is to learn to paint more intuitively and to learn to let go with my painting. The color that came to me was purple.