April is blog challenge month, and today the participants are revealing their themes for their 26 days of blogging. I am taking part as well, and my posts will following my blog theme for 2021: aspects of the #CreativeLife. But instead of boring you with 26 posts of my daily life, I will be sharing some of my artwork, as well as a few bits and pieces of info about the things influencing the creation of art projects.
For more info and seeing what other bloggers will be up to >> Twitter #AtoZChallenge or @AprilA2Z
Now back to the usual week-in-review news for week 9 of 2021
On Wednesday I took my car in for its annual service. I found a dealership close to the lab and decided to take my car to them since my husband, who usually takes my car to a dealer close to his place of work, working from home for two days. Not an unusual thing to do, I grant you, but that it was not a usual service day for me.
One hour after I fetched the car again, thanks to one of my colleagues who took me to collect it after the service, I got a call from the service manager from the dealership with an offer to purchase my car. I turned him down. Not because the offer was not good enough, but the one model of vehicle that would tempt me right now to sell is not available in South Africa. And it is apparently unlikely to be made available. Welcome to my world.
The challenge for our art group last week was to draw dead leaves lying on concrete blocks. I took the picture at one of the local malls and challenged the group to take the almost monotone photograph and turn it into an abstract/impressionistic project. And here was the true challenge: we had to do it using watercolour pencils.
I think all of us had a learning experience, ranging from colour combinations that don't work, applying the pencils on paper not suited to the media, and practising freehand drawing using the grid method. Was it worth the effort?
Learning about a medium or a technique only happens when you sit down and experiment with it. So I would say it was definitely worth the effort (or aggravation?) to learn more about the mediums we own.
Sleep deprivation due to a Netflix story happened again, but at least this time I waited for the weekend so I could catch up a bit on Sunday.
So here is to a new week, new work challenges, and a whole lot of trying to avoid procrastination (aka Netflix) until I finished my todo list for the week.
Stay healthy, and live creatively until Thursday!
︙ Linzé 🇿🇦💚
