The top one is the one that hangs over my computer. The 2nd one hangs in our bedroom. To answer Zoom's question about the backgrounds - I don't know right now what I am going to do with them. I am just playing with things right now. I am going to send 5 sheets in for the April Monthly Art Technique Swap in the Art Techniques group (acrylic varnish and mica powder). I just put the other backgrounds aside until I have a project that I want to use it for. I have been working on various mixed media backgrounds using my needle felting and fabric. I am not concerned with finished pieces lately. I am not exhibiting this year and do not feel the need to create finished pieces. I create just to create. I love to create backgrounds. I love to twirl fibers around pipe cleaners while watching TV. I am not actually creating anything except something I like to look at and touch. That is where I am at. Now that I am comfortable where I am at as an artist, I don't find the need to create something that is finished. Now that I know what I am doing and know what I want to do, it does not matter as much to me. I do what I feel like doing. I felt a lot of pressure when I created pieces for exhibit. There were so many variables to consider. So, for now, I am just creating for me. If other people like it, then I will send them a piece. Otherwise, they will stay happily piled up in my loft.Oh yeah, I am also collecting backgrounds to swap at Art Unraveled in August.
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Thanks very much for posting the Create picture. I like it. And I like your philosophy of creating for yourself, for the pleasure of creating. Pressure - from others, or from ourselves - can inhibit the process.
Wow Belinda - maybe I just needed to have someone say it's OK to just do things because you like to do them and not necessarily have an end in mind for them at present. I am constantly beating myself up for doing art I enjoy (background junkie myself). You're right.....I'm not exhibiting nor am I trying to sell my art right now. I do it because it is the only thing I do that I enjoy. I believe I just had an epiphany thanks to you.
Judi Foster
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