Creativity Bootcamp: Day One

Day One Journal Prompt: write a letter to yourself

I cut up the next page of the ebook and stuck it in my book.  I wrote the letter to myself and it is tucked away in the manila envelope

Day One: Random Word prompt: Scarlet

I did a wash of red watercolour paint using paint from a tube of paint.  Then I used Neocolour II watercolour sticks to draw with and then blended with clean water.  Only being able to use one media is really interesting.  I found that I could concentrate more on the content and composition because I wasn't thinking about what media to use next.

Never mind

Sometimes the best laid plans and all that ....

I thought I'd try out some watercolour wash in the Moleskine Sketchbook in preparation for Creativity Bootcamp and although it wasn't a total disaster, I didn't like the result.  The water reacted with the finish on the page and so I needed to have a rethink.

I had a look through all the empty sketchbooks I have in order to find a suitable one.  I found one I didn't remember having (lol) which has a purple cover and is spiral bound.  It has cartridge paper in it and I shall probably glue two pages together throughout the book so it copes with the watercolour paints ~ well the wetness of the paints!

So as I'm going out all day to the Solihull Crop I thought I would get started.   Here's the Title Page.  Painted with watercolour paint and then bubblewrap pressed on while the paint dried.

Then on the next page I did a colourwash with watercolour paints and cut up the ebook for the course and stuck it in the sketchbook with some journaling.

Creativity Bootcamp

A group of friends and I are starting a 2 week intensive journaling and creativity class on Sunday.   You can find out about it here.   This is last year's free book which we are going to work through together.

There is a new class this year which has a cost to it and starts in May.

One of the friends I shall be working along side is Pippa and you can find out more about her on her blog.

We have both decided to work with watercolours for this class.  We came to this decision separately but it will be lovely to see how we use the same medium in different ways.  I have gathered together my watercolour crayons, Neocolour crayons, watercolour tubes, paintbrushes and the new Moleskine Sketchbook I bought.  So I'm all ready for the off on Sunday.