Let's get Whimsical, Whimsical, I wanna get Whimsical.
Yeah, that's what happens if you watch the videos of Vanessa Brantlley-Newton!
You just want to sing and you want to play and want to be creative.
Don't you?
I think she has really entertained us and really inspired us this week, with her videos and so many
demos that she did, you know.
She showed us a lot of approaches and a lot of different art tools that you can use and also mix
together.
And also she talks about creativity.
You know, we have been really thinking about creativity.
How you can use your pain and other emotions but also joy play...
It's all in there.
It's pretty amazing.
So for our homework, we are collaging.
Now I'm always a little bit, I don't want to say afraid of collage, but I just never do it because it's
messy and I don't know what I'm doing, but I think that is part of the fun of it too.
And I happen to have a lot of stuff still from the card making course with Sally Swindell.
I have a lot of feathers and different colors paper and all that.
So I think I will just get all that out and see what I can make with those things.
We do have a prompt as well.
So I need to pick my prompt and then just get everything out on the table and start playing and enjoy
your process.
Okay, so I chose the word joyous to collage just because the word is joyful and I like that.
It gives a positive feeling while I will be drawing.
So I picked a nice background, a colored background which will prevent me to have any fear of a White
Blank Page.
I like this color and I will draw something joyous on it: a dancing woman.
So I'm trying to make her dance and make it a little bit dynamic.
So that's just a quick drawing with a brush pen.
And now I will dive in and collage over that.
So I found this sheet of stickers that were just like round stickers to, I don't even know what the
purpose was for it.
The stickers are gone, but there's still the rest that also sticks and I thought that could be
actually a fun background.
A patterned background.
So I'll stick that onto my paper and now I just want to collage all the elements of this little person
dancing.
And I could talk you through the whole process.
But to be honest, I am just making this up as I go and I don't really want to think about it.
I just really want to enjoy it.
I just want to play and be playful and not be thinking about why I make certain choices.
It's just because I like the color.
Or the texture and I want to try things out even if I don't know if they will work out and I will just show
you the whole process as I go.
So I think I have a little party going on in my collage here and I like that I found some stickers and some
stars and some things to glue on and to make it shiny and fun.
And actually, the brown ribbed paper reminded me of sand and beach, especially when I added those
stars.
And I have this blue paper that when you wrinkle you can really add some more texture.
So I thought well if I put that just above that brownish paper, it's kind of like a sea she is dancing at
the sea shore.
and I love that.
So a few epiphanies during this whole thing and.
Most of all just a lot of fun.
A very very joyeus process.