It's good to look back and reflect over what I have achieved in 2018. I have such a lot on the go that I so often feel I haven't completed anything. But I did finish some things.
Some though are from workshops like this one from Unlocking the Mystery of Creative Play.
Fragments from a Shelley Rhodes workshop.
All the things I made at a Debbie Lyddon workshop
A finished piece from a Steph Redfern workshop
Pages from A Book of Trees - an online workshop
And then there were my Traverse exhibition pieces.
Pathways
Venice Hanging
Venice Tiles
Admittedly most of the work for these last 3 pieces were done in 2017 but I'm going to claim them for 2018, because that's when they were exhibited.
I'm hoping to finish more pieces this year. But as I said in a previous post, I really need to cut down on the number of workshops I attend.
In the photography group I belong to our theme for January was 2018 in pictures. This ended up being quite difficult as I didn't want to include anything hand related and a good proportion of my photos in 2018 were about my creative work. This is what I came up with:
March walk
Canal trip in April
April
April
Trip to Liverpool in May
On the way home from Liverpool
Chinese Garden, Central Sydney, October
Along the Great Ocean Road, Australia in October
Stratford Canal, late December
I'll maybe do a post of all the work I finished last year.
In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.
Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.
I chose Believe for my B word. I thought it went well with my word of the year {commit}. Valerie's suggestion for this letter was to draw around your hand. I can't get my right hand to lie flat yet so I drew round my left.
I wrote the words from the definitions I found for believe that best fitted {commit}. I thought it would be good to put what I believe. I love the Hillsong version of The Apostles Creed so I found the lyrics and a font I like (Crushed) and printed most of the lyrics. I cut them up and stuck them on my pages.
There was a small page in the middle of the double page spread so I found a Scripture to put there. I used a Gelato and a stencil to add the half circles.
On the reverse I wrote some of the dictionary definitions.
Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019. Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post. We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.
