because a squillion things need doing.
because my eyes have soaked in so much color lately.
because time-lapse is the most fun thing in world.
today I made this:
Category: mixed media art
TWELVTY Prize Draw
This week I’m giving away TWO FREE places in TWELVTY.
TWELVTY is an adventure in color that runs all through 2017 where we explore the 12 colors of the color wheel one month at a time.
In TWELVTY you get access to a wealth of delicious color resources, exclusive videos of my creative process every week, and can join a wonderful online community of creatives. And much, muchier more! (More details here)
Want in? just sign up to my email list here and reply to the welcome email with the subject line “I’m In!” to enter
Winners will be notified on Saturday 25th Feb. Good luck!
(and I’ll send you my ebook A Year full of Color as a thank you for joining)
The doors close to new members of the TWELVTY tribe at the end of Feb, so if you get lit up by color and think this is something you’d like to be a part of you have until 28 Feb to jump aboard. I don’t know if I’ll run this program again – next year I have other adventures lined up – this could be now or never!
(here’s the project that planted the seed in my imagination to create TWELVTY)
Want to know more? Ask me in the comments below 🙂
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Happy Birthday!
(But more on that in a moment… first let me set the scene…)
I was telling you about how TWELVTY has begun to take on a life of its own. It’s just a few weeks into its year long life and it’s not going the way I imagined…
Instead of being the set of 12 individual colored months, like I first planned, TWELVTY is turning into a story made of 12 chapters. They are woven together and already I can see that taken separately they lose the essential essence of the story. The full year of color has a life the months alone can’t provide.
To begin I wanted to make this program available to join throughout the year, but what I didn’t know then was how all-encompassing it was to become! It’s grown beyond my imaginings, and to be honest if someone was to join later in the year I don’t think they’d get the full magic of being a part of TWELVTY just by accessing the material retrospectively.
So I’ve decided to close the doors on TWELVTY at the end of this month.
No more new recruits after the end of February.
But wait up! that’s not all….
Before the doors close, as today is my birthday ………
I’m going to gift 2 FREE PLACES in TWELVTY 2017 in a Prize Draw.
The prize draw runs from Friday 17th Feb for ONE WEEK.
Winners will be notified Saturday 25th February.
Are you someone who gets all lit up about color?
Would you love to join a tribe of creatives who are just like us?
If so, just jump on my mailing list here and
reply to the welcome email with the title “I’M IN!”
to add your name to the hat for the prize draw.
(and as a welcome, you get this little ebook all about color when you join my list)
Want to find out more about what’s in TWELVTY – it’s all over here . I also did a big ole Q&A post over here. Or ask me in the comments – I’m massively excited about this – ask me anything! (anything about TWELVTY…I don’t have answers to much else!)
I don’t know if I’ll be offering this program again. Next year has different adventures in store for me, so this could be ‘now or never’, folks!
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A life of its own…
Y’now I’ve been immersed in color for the last few months. Not my usual multi-colored chaos (although there’s no escaping that) – but a very specific niche of color – as I explore and examine the color wheel.
It’s a project I played with a few years ago keeps returning to in one way or another.
It keeps coming back.
It’s a compulsion.
But this time is a little different: this time I’m joined by other artists and creatives, and we’re on this adventure together. And I’m totally loving it!
We began the year in shades of sunshine & lemon with YELLOW, and now in the second month we’ve stepped round to the luscious lime and sumptuous olive tones that fall into YELLOW-GREEN. Next month we explore GREEN… so on, cycling around the color wheel, a month at a time.
The thing is, since I decided to share this color journey, it’s taken on a momentum and is developing a character of its own. (As big projects so often do).
As I plan forward into the upcoming months of colors I see this adventure develop into one big ongoing story, rather than the 12 little self-contained, single-color tales I first envisaged. I anticipated TWELVTY being the kind of course folks to hop on board any time through the year, with instant access to all the material to date.
…..But 6 or so weeks in, TWELVTY has become something much bigger than I realised it would be, and that simply isn’t the way it’s decided to grow.
So I’ve made a decision.
Which I’ll tell you about on Friday.(Because Friday is special)
Want to find out more about what’s in TWELVTY – it’s all over here . I also did a big ole Q&A post over here. Or ask me in the comments – I’m massively excited about this – ask me anything! (anything about TWELVTY…I don’t have answers to much else!)
Hop on my mailing list here to get irregular updates on my colorful makings & doings direct to your inbox.
(and as a welcome, you get this little ebook all about color when you join)
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Playing
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
don’t stop 😉
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that time again! (2 of 2)
picking up where we left off yesterday, looking back at what I made this year. Yesterday I showed you January- June, here we catch up on July-December
My 2016 in art journalling has looked like this
July
August
September
October
November
December
What a trip it’s been! I hope you’re able to look back and smile at some parts of 2016 , and have new adventures to look forward to in 2017. Whatever unfolds next, I wish you well dear friends, as we continue to walk each other home.
Want to make 2017 brighter and more colorful?
Join me in TWELVTY! beginning January 1st.
Can’t wait that long? sign up below and get a lovingly hand crafted ebook all about color right now!!
…then join TWELVTY…obvs! 😉
Be well, my friends, Much love to you all X
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(Your email is absolutely safe with me, I’ll just pop by and check up on it time to time, feed it biscuits, plump up its cushions, that sort of thing.)
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that time again! (1 of 2)
Looking back at things I made in 12 months makes the year stretch back further. January feels like a lifetime ago now…
My 2016 in art journalling has looked like this
The tail of the year, the time to look back & look forward, funny cos in so many ways it’s an arbitrary number, tomorrow will still be tomorrow whatever we call it. But I enjoy the process of evaluating where I am in this life from time to time, so now’s as good as any!
Join me tomorrow and I’ll show you the second half of my 2016 in art journaling.
Want to make 2017 brighter and more colorful?
Join me in TWELVTY! beginning January 1st.
Can’t wait that long? sign up below and get a lovingly hand crafted ebook all about color right now!!
…then join TWELVTY…obvs! 😉
Be well, my friends, Much love to you all X
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(Your email is absolutely safe with me, I’ll just pop by and check up on it time to time, feed it biscuits, plump up its cushions, that sort of thing.)
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Yellow…
Twelvty begins in January 2017.
It’s a 12 month journey through 12 colours: exploring, experimenting, collaborating, painting, playing.
Each month is dedicated to its own single color, and January is all about YELLOW.
We start here… you wanna come along? It’s going to be so much fun 🙂
Join up now only £144 for the whole year.
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Twelvty launch!
Hi friends!
Here we are, after much squirreling around I’m delighted to let you know: TWELVTY is now on sale!
I am SO excited!
To celebrate I’m offering a 2 month discount off the year long program if you sign up this week
TWELVTY is a brand new program I’m launching today, it will run from January through December 2017 and it’s all about color!
Intrigued? Find out more here
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New Color Fuelled Excitements!
I’ve got big plans brewing and I want to tell you all about them!
Beginning with (drum roll and accompanying cooing noises, if you will)
“TWELVTY”
ok, that’s a working title… I’ll tell you a little more about it and perhaps you’ll have some better ideas on a name!
So here’s the thing: 5 years ago I did this personal project called 12 in 12 and it looked like this:
It’s an art journal of mixed media, painting and doodles, collage, stitching and things that I worked on all through the year. Each month had a 2 or 3 pages, but just one colour. Beginning in January with Red-Purply-Magenta, I cycled around the colour wheel landing back to Red in December. 12 colours in 12 months.
I loved it for so many reasons. While I continued to play with all the colors in my other art, I kept focussed on the month’s ONE COLOR in this book. All month long.
It was a discipline. And it made me reach for the other colors more mindfully in the rest of my work.
Even now, years on, I look back through it and those pages flood my mind with ideas and inspiration.
It also tuned my eyes into color in my surrounding much more keenly. Look around you now: how many blue things can you see? Look again. Are they brighter now you’re actively noticing them? It’s so simple, so effective.The more we look, the more we see.
I revisited this idea recently in my 21 Secrets class Take Nine. And it’s awoken something in me that’s just overflowing with ideas.
At least a yearful of them.
So, here we go:
I’m going to re-imagine this project in 2017 and I’d love you to join me.
This time it’s going to extend beyond one art journal. It’s going to include all the aspects of art making I use and incorporate everything new I pick up in the year, off the top of my head I already know it will have:
- painting & drawing
- photography & video
- textiles, stitching, beadwork
- sculpture & 3D makings
- …. oooh! we’ll have to wait and see what else!
Each month I’ll record what I’m making and share these videos with you, AND at the end of the month I’ll be selling the pieces I make in my (soon to be opened) Etsy Store.
AND There will be giveaways and prize draws through the year too. I’m formulating the details and honing the plans all the while: there will be much more on all of this soon!
Sign up here for updates by email if you want to keep in the loop with all things TWELVTY
Edit:: It’s here!! Find out more HERE & SIGN UP if you want to join the adventure!!
I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Meanwhile, I wish you all a fabulous, bright and colorful week!
Much love X
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