☆ Studio Warm Up [Life Book 2014]

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 Week 24 - Bonus: Studio Warm Up with Jane Davenport

Jane Davenport took us through one of the ways that she quickly warms up those creative muscles.

And she uses the most amazing colours + supplies... Oh I am so envious of her supplies! [Check out your youtube channel + see what I mean!]

So I love that this weeks exercise was a short, fun + incredibly bright piece.

And I love that I didn't make think too hard about it.

In her video Jane said she made up silly rules for her warm up, like three marks with the same colour.

I loved this idea, so I started making four marks per colour, which helped take my mind off the little bitch squawking that this looks crap, until, she is turned off + and I am in the zone.

Do you have a warm up technique that you use? Or silly rules to help you turn off the little bitch? I would love it if you shared them with us.

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☆ Pop Up Positives with Jane Davenport [Life book 2014]

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Week 7 - Pop Up Positive with Jane Davenport

You know you are having a crappy week, when the most positive thing you can think up about yourself is that you are loyal.

Every positive thing I could think off was refuted by my inner bitch. 

So this lesson by the fabulous Jane Davenport, was just what I needed as well as one of the most difficult, because my little bitch was running rampant that day!

After lots of inner debate, I came up with 

                 ☆  Dreamer of big things

                 ☆  Open - Hearted

                 ☆  Believer of all things fantastical 

The next hard part was trying to illustrate them! They were such abstract positives that I had to be a little creative.

I think my unicorn is my favourite...

Thanks Jane, for not only a fun + beautiful project, but for making me reinforcing, after a crappy week, my positive qualities...

What are your top three positive qualities? Don't let your inner bitch tell you, like mine did, that you have none. You do! Some times you have to did a bit deeper... I would love it if you shared your positives with us below.

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☆ Self Portrait Mini Lesson [Life Book 2013]

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The fabulous Jane Davenport provided a mini-lesson for this weeks Life Book class.

And it is a really simple technique.

One which I may employ later in other artworks.

So I flipped through a magazine + selected a few outfits. I also did a really quick (and not so great) self portrait, I had some left over paint on my palette from another project for the back ground. And Voila, an awesomely fun project completed!

Imagine the things you could include in this type of project. You could include anything - wings + tiaras spring to mind. And I can't wait to try this one again.

I have been totally rushed for time lately, but I really wanted to keep up with my life book lessons, they are so valuable,  so while I did rush this lesson, I still took a huge amount from it!

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