FAKE Journal - Week 1 At Sea

Last week, I came across, (and I apologize to whoever mentioned it in the weekly CED2010 check-in, but I didn't keep track of where I saw this) on April Fool's Day a most unusual idea and website. How appropriate for that day! International Fake Journal Month!! I'm not sure what appeals to me so much about this (keeping a fake journal for a month) but I immediately decided to participate. I pulled out a blank journal (pretty but el cheapo from the dollar store) 

and started to draw/paint and write. So far I have 6 journal pages already done! I'm usually not into "FAKE" but.... it seems to be flowing, so I am going with that flow! My alter ego (still no name yet) is on a ship in the Pacific Ocean, currently off the coast of Central Mexico. Clicking on the images makes them larger and I think legible but please comment if it is too hard to read my handwriting and I can, in future posts, type out the words.

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

I think (really I'm not quite sure just where this journal is coming from!) that my journal writer is on a ship like Craig Venter's Sorcerer II collecting samples. Some of it might be based on a conversation I had with someone in the Air Canada lounge in Toronto last month. I'm not sure where it is going but here it is! I've been thinking about keeping a real journal for awhile and started one for my garden the same day as this one! (So far so good there too - but it won't be a daily one, only when there is activity.)

I'm going out of town on business most of the rest of this week so I'm unsure what I can accomplish but I will try to continue this intriguing challenge!

Thanks Roz for the idea! Anyone else want to participate??

Eye see and other little creations...

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a great creative week! This one flew by with the best weather yet this year! What a total pleasure and treat! I am looking forward to seeing your efforts this week! Here are mine:

Monday: Very tired today after work so only a quick, very rough sketch looking out the glass of my patio door:

Tuesday: Had no idea what I'd do today when I sat down at my desk at home, then I looked out the window, saw (and heard!) a family of chickadees in the tree flittering around and playing! What a delightful sight! 

Wednesday:

April Fool's Day aka Thursday:

Some days I feel like the first image and then the second one overrules it. I still don't know where I am going with my CED2010 involvement. I am almost finished my blank journal where I have been creating. (yes, I bought another one ) and that seemed like quite the creation itself! But as I was drawing this and clicking on the new CED2010 Mr. Linky links, I came across something that means I might do more rather than less! 

Friday: I posted this one to the Inspiration Avenue Weekly Challenge - a fun challenge and a lovely group!!

Saturday: My forsythia is so gorgeous at the moment that I cut some, put it in a vase and decided to try and capture it! 

Happy Easter aka Sunday: Hope everyone had a Happy  Easter!

A good and productive week for me. I kept up with CED2010, exercised or gardened (strenuously - so I'm counting it as exercise! I sure don't have the energy to both exercise AND garden!) 6 times this week. I started two new creative endeavors. The first, a Gardening Art Journal:

and completed the cover and 4 pages. Not sure that I need to show the actual pages here, but so far I am enjoying the process. Does anyone else keep a Gardening Art Journal? The second, I came across (and I apologize to whoever mentioned it in the weekly check-in, but I didn't keep track of where I saw this) on April Fool's Day. How appropriate! International Fake Journal Month!! I'm not sure what appeals to me so much about this (keeping a fake journal for a month) but I immediately decided to participate and have 4 journal pages already done! I'm usually not into "FAKE" but.... I will likely check-in with Roz on Tuesdays so if you are interested in what my alter-ego for April is doing and where he/she (?) is adventuring, please come by then. Lastly, I participated in Sunday Sketching at Blue Chair Diary with this Easter themed entry. I'm pooped! Next week I will be at a conference out of town for much of the week so I'm not sure of what I will create, except for a better understanding of what is happening related to the conference topic!

What about you? How was your week creatively? My best wishes to all of you for a great week coming up!!

EVA

Easter Sunday Sketching

HAPPY EASTER Everyone!

I

I


I am learning.


I am experimenting.


I am discovering that I can do more than I thought I could.


I am seeing some hints of talent.


I am developing a creative habit.


I am having fun.


I am curious as to where it will lead.


I am hoping it will lead to creativity in another area even if at the moment it distracts me.


I am enjoying a variety of media and materials.


I am quite taken with zen doodles.


I am playing with the word or perhaps the sound of  "I"...

EVA

Zen and Fruit, Fruit and Zen

This week's creations were much like last week, I continued to try pastelled fruit and did more zen doodles. Different fruit, though. I smiled when I saw Leah's theme for April "5 Senses" as I felt my fruit explorations fit the description nicely: Sight - looking at the fruit closely to try to make my version somewhat like the original; Sound - especially when biting into some of them after their portrait was complete; Taste - yummy!; Smell - the riper the fruit, the richer the smell; Touch - holding them to eat, to figure out texture, to peel. Working with pastels on these fruits has been interesting. I've learned you always need an extra piece of paper around to rub off the excess colour the crayons pickup when blending. What I haven't yet learned is how to create a sharp edge for outlines and details.

So here are my activities for the week:

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: I liked these but couldn't get the colour quite right. None of my red pastels was the red of the strawberries. Out of a 50 pastel pack, I'd thought I'd have better luck. 

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

So what else did I create this week? I tried a couple of new recipes with changes so that kind of qualifies as creating. I continued my exercise program and exercised 5 times this week - my work on creating a fit body continues... (will it ever end???). I participated in the Sunday Sketching challenge again that Sophia at Blue Chair Diary hosts. And I finished a second acrylic that I started last week. I have a wonderful hydrangea tree at my front door that blooms in the fall - and tried to capture one of its flowers here.

Enough of me. What about you? Did you have a good creative week? What was the most fun for you? I look forward to checking out your work on Leah's Mr. Linky! Thanks again to all of you who have commented. Have a great week ahead!

Sunday Sketching 28March2010 "Orchids"

I'm trying to press harder when I draw so it will show up when scanned but looking at today's efforts, I'm not sure I have succeeded. It is much better if you click to enlarge though! I am still drawing from real life but I am very taken with some of the fanciful ones others have done. I'll spend more time looking at all of your work after I take my daughter to the art gallery. I am hoping to come back with lots of ideas. (And a fancy new blank journal for my CED2010 efforts! I can't believe it is almost full.)

I played around with my drawing pencils to help me decide which to use when. While not a sketch, it helped to produce the "Orchids"!

Hope you had fun sketching today!

A Fruity kinda Week!

Still going strong! Well, perhaps that is an exaggeration. Some days, I have more fun and more ideas than others. What about you? But I am keeping at it. This week I had a bit of a theme. While shopping, I thought that I really should eat more healthy food and bought a bunch of fruit. On Monday, I decided to draw some of it, so the major focus this week has been pastelled fruits with a couple of Zen Doodles thrown in for fun! Lovely fruit to look at and all very delicious to eat afterwards!!

Mango Monday:

Tasty Gala Apple Tuesday:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! (aka Wednesday):

Thirst Quenching Kiwi Thursday:

Fabulous Nectarine Friday:

Saturday:

Sweet Raspberry Sunday:

Along with CED2010, I have been working on a few other projects this year. Fitness is one: - and I exercised 5 times again this week (Yay!!). Cleaning and De-cluttering my House is another: - mostly this has been a room by room superclean. This month was my basement family room and I decided to clear off the desk that used to be stacked with old computer equipment (ugh). Then we discovered the secure computer recycling depot and now it is all gone (Yay!). So I cleaned the rest of the clutter off of it and decided to use it to try out some painting. Starting small, I bought some little 4x6 canvas boards and acrylics at the dollar store (I do own more expensive paints but I thought I'd first try these) and thought I'd experiment with a flower. So here it is:

There are two others started but not complete. Maybe next week. And I tried participating in Blue Chair Diary's Sunday Sketches.

So that was my creative week. What about yours? I'm looking forward to reading all about them!