Watercolor of water…

Recycled Denim

January was the birth of my Etsy store and here are my first products. Recycling is all the rage now so I went through my closet and found an old denim shirt. I measured strategically to see how many pillows I could get out of one shirt and with just a sleeve left after these four pillows, I think I can get one more still.

The bolster sleeve pillow was a challenge but I managed to make it look like a pillow rather than the dismembered arm it looked like after the first round…

It fed my creativity to cut the pieces out and also taking the worn seams, collar and sleeve details and sew them back on to create some added novelty.  Here’s how they came out

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watercolor

This is a great week to get lost in painting.  I took up watercolor a few years back and have been doing different works of snow and water. It feels completely out of control..    I think that’s why I love it so much.  Everything I do for work requires control and precision so this medium takes me to unfamiliar places, opens me to creativity I didn’t know I had.

Here are a couple of paintings I’ve done

Play

I’ve been reading the Artful Blogging magazine and am inspired by the beauty and variety shown there but more than that it’s the honesty these, mostly women, show in openly sharing their art.

Art is very personal and although I’ve used my art mainly to market and tell the story of other persons and their businesses I’m beginning to find my own artist’s legs.  I have other blogs but this one is designated as my play area.

Feel free to join me and share your thoughts or art you’re creating..