 Hey guys, welcome to another month of my creative year 2020. So fun fact, we did all the prompts and word lists and everything for the entire year back before the holidays. I forget now exactly when it was, I think sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving here in America. One of the other ladies could tell you for sure, but I think it was around there. Who would have known that what would happen in the world would happen? I've just discovered over the last few weeks some interesting coincidences for instance. I don't think we could have predicted we would be shut in and asked to stay at home and then have this month's prompt be the colors around you. I don't know. We could have foresaw that but that's what the prompt is this month. So the colors around you this year as you know, we are working with color for the entire year exploring the use of color, unusual combinations of colors. We maybe haven't tried before. Some things are going to be successes. Some are going to be failures, but we're okay with that course. We're just playing and we're learning and growing, right? So this month I want you to explore the world around you, whether it's your creative space like mine, which is this is my space. Hang on. Those who haven't seen it yet. This is my space. Cluttered, beige, but comfortable. Work on the wall mostly mine, not all, but most of it's mine. My art room window. We're right next to the woods and it's a protected wildlife area full of deer and raccoons and all kinds of things. It's the colors of your creative space, the colors of your house. My house happens to be earthy, woodsy colors, beiges and creams and greens and then a little bit of ocean-y teally blues thrown in. Our front door is red, fun fact. So whether it's the color of your house or the color of your creative space or the color of your favorite flowers in your yard or in my case, I have the woods outside, I want you to explore the use of the colors inspired by the world around you. Wherever you happen to be in the world and in your house, in your yard, I want you to focus on that. So fun fact. Almost every single night we go on an evening walk. We're still allowed to do that. Keep maintaining safe distance. If you're watching this in the future, it's because of the COVID-19 coronavirus. And I almost always take pictures of something while I'm out on my walk and I share it on social media, usually Instagram, today's views. So I'm always taking pictures with my phone and I'm always being inspired by whatever it is around me. Colors, shapes, form, composition. I want you to do that this month. So we are going to go take a look in the woods. We're going to take some pictures. I'm going to show you them next, whatever it is I'm inspired to use or to do. And we're going to create a little painting or a piece of artwork or a journal page inspired by that. Yeah? I'll be right back. Okay, so before I take you outside here for some more inspiration on things you can look at to be inspired by color, shape, texture and composition around you, I'm going to insert a few pictures. So there's one of a this pretty purpley pink flower I actually took that was in a neighbor's yard a few blocks down when we were out for one of our evening walks And you'll see this picture here and I will put it in a draw box file. Y'all can download it if you'd like and work from that And then the next picture here is the watercolor I did from the picture inspired by the picture and while I did Suggest the shape and form of the flower. I also was inspired by the color. It was just such a beautiful flower So that's the kind of thing I'm talking about take it and spin it however works for you with your art style Let me go take you on It's 46 degrees. Yes. I'm in short sleeves I do have my galoshes on It's a little bit rainy, but let's go into the woods and let me just show you a couple things Just the woods just fascinate me. Hold on I do this without getting the camera too wet, but These literally are the woods next to my house That's the edge of my house right there That tree there Is somewhere between 800 and a thousand years old the tree people aren't sure exactly It's you can see it outside of one of the upstairs bedroom windows We're covered in vines and These pretty yellow flowers Sometimes there's Really pretty Yet wildly poisonous mushrooms out here. There's deer Lots of beautiful shades of green and the texture of the bark All sorts of take a look be inspired by what's around you. Take some photos with your phone. If you're like me You always have your phone with you. Take some photos. I always have it in hand And I'm always telling my family stop pictures So I drive them crazy just fyi Anyway, I'm going to see what pictures I can get for you And then we're going to create a piece of artwork different than the flower and We're going to work on that in the meantime. I want you to take some pictures and I want you to use that Whatever pictures you get to inspire you in your work this month. Yes And I want you to share in the group. I'd love to see what you all come up with Not only the original picture but the also the artwork. Yeah, all right. I'm going to go check the mail I'm going to try to take some pictures and I'll be back Okay Okay, guys, so we talked in the last clip Um, which I actually filmed yesterday, but you just saw it. Whoops. Sorry the camera is very shaky Okay, we saw you saw in the last clip where we talked about the colors around you and um, I Showed you those yellow flowers that are next to my house and here is a picture. I took of them I will put this picture into Dropbox somewhere along with the one that I showed you already of the Purpley pink flower and then you guys can use those for inspiration for artwork this month or future artwork um, I took this picture and Using it as inspiration pulled These colors of paint From my stash So we're going to create a journal page using those. I have a particular idea in mind And I have also some brown paper. I want to use this is just painter's paper If you hear little toenails or whimpering it's because I'm babysitting My daughter and future son-in-law's dog while they're all at the new house doing demolition And she's not too happy to be left home alone with grandma. So All right We are going to fast forward through my process and we'll be right back Okay, and that fast forward you saw me create inspired by the picture that I took on a evening walk And I could have um, I'm still allowed to go walking If you're watching this in the future I am filming this in march of 2020 in the midst of the covet 19 pandemic And we at this time are requested to stay home as much as possible. We're still allowed to go uh for um daily exercise keeping a safe distance six feet from people who we don't live with And um, so my husband and I do do that and I did take this in one of those walks I could have taken it in my driveway because I have these same bushes in my driveway As you saw from the video So inspired by this picture I created a journal spread Which I love I love the way this came out. It's simple. It was quick And I love the way it looks and the message that came across on it Um, and then also you could you don't have to do something like this You could just do a background with whatever colors it is palette that's inspiring you Which I did here and I can use this on an art paper clip Which I do make not as many as I was making but um, I do make art Little art paper clips or I can use it on a tag or I can use it in a future journal page. So Whatever it is. I want you to be inspired by the colors around you this month I want you to experiment with those color palettes. I want you to create some art with it I want you to share said color palettes And maybe some inspiration photos here in the group my creative year If you're watching this on youtube and you're not a member of my creative year and you'd like to be The link is in the description below if you have any questions comments or concerns Please leave them down below for me. 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