MMM & Studio PlayDays

What is your response if you are asked if you are creative? Most people will say they are not because they think they are being asked if they draw or paint. But creativity is so much more than that! It encompasses hospitality, writing, knitting, sewing, photography, cooking, garden design – the list goes on and on.

In the past few months a team of us at my church have been working on setting up a creative studio – a safe place to have fun, to play with a variety of media and meet up with like-minded people.

The studio consists of three spaces with designated areas for various activities including art, crafts, sewing, knitting, textiles, writing and photography, to name but a few. The studio will be available to the older Jubilee Kids on a Sunday morning and Youth on a Friday evening.

We have lots of ideas for the future. The studio could be used for: individual use during the day or evening, group workshops, parent and child art/craft sessions, a writing group, and Sew Social.

We have begun our ladies photography group, Snapshot Girls, on the second Monday of the month and Mixed Media Monday is on the first Monday of the month.

PlayDays
Our plan is to open up the studio for a ‘PlayDay’ once a month. The next one is on Tuesday 25th April from 10.30am-3.30pm.

Monoprinting

We all need to escape from the busyness of the world from time to time. Sometimes we want to get away from our to do lists and chill! And chat with friends. So we have started Colouring, Coffee (or tea) & Cake evenings.   The next one is on Wednesday 17th May from 8-9.30pm. Why don't you come and join me?

This is an exciting new project and I have loved being able to set up the studio.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

National Colouring Book Day

Colouring books are the new thing!  And not just for children.  I have seen so many articles on the health benefits of colouring in for adults.  So why not join in?

As regular readers know I helped form the online community His Kingdom Come and we have 3 colouring books available to download from the HKC Shop.

And the team decided that today we would share our coloured pages in honour of National Colouring Book Day.   Shonna started us off with a blog post on the HKC site.

Here are some of my pages:
This is from Shonna's God's Girls Colouring Book.

I coloured it in with Inktense watercolour pencil crayons.

And then went over the colouring with a wet brush.

This is a page from Narda's Creative Call Colouring Book.  She made this to go alongside a Book Study of The Creative Call that I was leading on the HKC site.

I used the Inktense pencils again and used a very, very small brush to wet the colour.

I also coloured a page from Paula's Scripture Snippets colouring book.

I've put together a free colouring sheet for you to download.  It is based on the designs drawn by Shonna for my Altered Books class based on The Promised Land.

I used watercolour paints and gel pens to colour mine:

(The blue lines in the background are from my printer and are not on the download)

 

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice