Choosing Colors

Okay, so I have been getting lots of questions about what colors are going to be in the nursery. This week I sorted through all the swatches and inspiration pages I had collected and finally decided.
Here is the main combo...with the caveat that there will also be other bright colors in the room.

Navy for the walls, aqua, orange and white for the furniture.

The hubby and I decided to go cheap on the furniture and add our own personal touch, so we got pieces from Ikea and did a little "hacking" to our Swedish finds. The creative juices were put into action as I (along with the minions I could con into helping) painted the crib, dresser and side table for the room. Here is a sneak peek:

Day 30

Whew, the end of the challenge is here. 30 days actually went by very quickly. It is funny, when I started, I had different ideas about the kinds of things I might create, and I did some of those, but there are other ideas I did not attempt, and still others I had not thought of that ended up popping up.

I approached Day 30 thinking I should do something really great to close out the challenge - take my time, really delve into something. So what did I do on my 30th day, I applied a design of mustard to my husband's sandwich bread for lunch, I arranged new Stella & Dot products for a photo for Facebook, and I worked on digitally restoring an old family photo. I thought about creating something else (more in line with what I have been creating all along) late last night, but I realized it didn't need to be a big deal. I was already including creativity through out my day, just maybe not in the way I expected or anticipated.

Now that the 30 Day challenge is over, what do I plan to do next? This question has been in the back of my mind. The intention of this project was to reconnect to my own creativity - specifically through my visual art as that is something I am trying to re-cultivate in my life. Along the way, I have also realized that I never lost my creativity in general - it is almost like I can't help but be creative, I just don't always recognize it.

My next projects include choosing nursery colors, painting a crib and a dresser, working in the garden with flowers and veggies, and yes, continuing to entertain myself with interesting mustard designs on the inside of my hubby's sandwiches. These are creativity in action, too.

But I still want to keep the momentum of creating art moving as well. On the advice of some friends, I am going to give inspiration time to bubble up. I hope to experiment and create something each week. As I continue to create, I will continue to post here.

Thank you for following me for the last 30 days and support my process. If you have any ideas for what I can add into my creativity and art mix over the next few months, please leave me a comment with your suggestions.

Day 29

Day 28

pen and ink, 4" x 9", reference image, ~2 hours

Day 27

Okay, I know this is posted later than usual, but it was finished yesterday and then I put it under books to flatten, and I kind of forgot about it. It makes me think of the images of a kaleidoscope in the middle of shifting and changing.

watercolor, 8" x 8", ~ 30 minutes

Day 26

pen and ink, 8" x 8", ~3 hours

Day 25

Swimming with sharks... somedays it can amaze you and somedays it can scare you.

watercolor, 8" x 8", reference images, ~2 hours

Day 24

watercolor, 8" x 8", ~1 hour

Day 23

Relaxing on the couch with my own personal male model. (Okay, I had to convince him to stay still while I am across the room trying to draw him, but that doesn't sound as good.)

mixed media (watercolor and water soluble graphite), 9" x 4", from observation, ~30 minutes