Monday Meanderings

I know it’s probably too late for anybody else to do this, but I absolutely love saving those heavy duty twist ties from all the piles of toys my daughters receive every year during the season of red and green. Besides looking like some sort of odd sculpture in my little container, they’re so useful! They’re so much stronger than the usual twist ties, I use them in my art, in the garden, to fix toys. They’re like bendable duct tape. I also scored massive amounts of brown paper from one package we were shipped, which I carefully rolled up. I’m debating on using it for paper mache, or saving it for body painting with the kids this summer.
This is my creativity for creative every day this week, I’ve been making potholders. Whoot! It’s been fun and easy considering how simple the pattern is and I enjoyed my first attempt at embroidery, though I think my bird looks like a weird cross between a crow and a sparrow. I still have to felt them yet, they’re made of wool, since it’s extra insulating, so I figured to make them really dense by felting them. Hopefully it goes well, I haven’t really done much felting yet, so wish me luck!
I wanted to leave you with this pic of Ada painting a statue I picked up at a garage sale. They both love painting that thing and fight over whose turn it is to paint it next. I’m thinking I need to pick up a few more odd sculptural things this summer for them to paint next winter. I love how painting is a whole body experience for her, she goes back and forth between the brush and her hands. It makes me think about my own body in relation to my creative process. Over at Creative Every Day the theme for the month is body. I started out thinking about drawing and painting pictures of the body, but now I find I’m thinking more about this connection between my body and my creativity. It’s so easy to get stuck in my head and think that art is all about how I’m thinking and seeing, but there’s this huge component involved in getting those thoughts into a medium and that’s a physical process, just as much as basketball or ballet.