Going out for walks in the sunlight is great for me and the dogs. I went out looking at the environment and had a bee in my bonnet about my latest project. In my mind's eyes was an empty bag of marshmallows which I found aesthetically pleasing, but my mind was telling me I was being silly and what would people think etc.and the creative process halted.
The images and mind set of street art images came my mind as if to say - well if you like marshmallow wrappers then fair enough. Just because the image you like is not a formal image or one that people would think was an arty image then that is o.k. There were plenty of discarded sweet wrappers lying around the place and I began to pick them up and see them as interesting visual images despite them being also rubbish.
The words win and x factor were on one wrapper and I began to see how advertising draws so much on art. The bright lime green wrapper and purple can were my favourite finds along with the stripey gold and red biscuit wrapper scrunched up like a heart.
My mind felt creative and I was all enthusiastic and tried to take pictures with my phone but it would not download them. So I will take pictures with another camera and put them in this blog..The next stage would be to use the images to create new images based on the colours and designs found today.
So instead of shutting down the creative process I must remember to take risks and think outside of the box creatively.
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