Creativity Bootcamp Day 7 & 8

The prompt for days 7 & 8 is FLY, see those sparks fly!

Creativity Boot Camp Prompt 6

Random Word Prompt

“Fluid”

Please have your day’s work include the theme or concept of the word “Fluid”

Inspiration Mosaic

 Yesterday at Creativity Boot Camp we were tasked to do the following:

"So today, I’d like you to go out into nature {or on the streets if you’re a city dweller} and seek inspiration. I’m not asking you to gather ideas for creative projects, I want you to simply take a camera outdoors and photograph things that speak to you on some level…any level. Take as many pictures as you’d like. If you’re like me, you might have to eventually make yourself stop and go back inside to take care of other things like your children or dinner. Try not to aim for perfect shots; don’t think about composition, don’t sweat the focus or the lighting, etc. Just take some random snapshots of anything that you find visually appealing and at this point don’t analyze why…just shoot."

I got home too late last night and was too tired to do this, but had a little time tonight and it was also a nice sunny evening,  so I went out with my camera and took a few pictures of the place I live and the things that inspire me.  Mainly plants and nature, but also textures and little framed scenes.  

The central picture has been altered using the palette knife filter to make a 'painterly' scene, so I thought I'd let you see that one separately.

Creativity Boot Camp Prompt 5

Grow

This picture really came out of yesterday's journal prompt 'What inspires you'.  I went out into the yard and down our road to see what inspired me, although I probably knew already.  Nature is my biggest inspiration, I love the flowers, the trees, grasses and especially the hedgerow plants or 'weeds' by another name!  These Icelandic poppies have become a bit of a weed, self-seeding around the yard, but tonight the sun just hit them in the right place and they looked so pretty.  

I'm going to make a mosaic of all the pictures I took tonight on my inspiration quest and will post as soon as I can.

Creative Boot Camp Day 4

Prompt for today is 'Heavy Metal'. I've gone completely literal on this one to show you the old two stroke engine we had on our farm being lifted using the tractor spike to load it onto the trailer of the two guys who are going to restore it.  I took this one last week, I've pretty much run out of time today.

Creativity Bootcamp - Day 3

Creativity Boot Camp - Day 2

Random Word Prompt - Picnic

"picnic - informal meal eaten out of doors"

Creativity Boot Camp -Day 1

I'm joining the Creativity Boot Camp!  There is a daily journal prompt and a random word prompt.  Today's random word is IVORY.

This is my digital collage for Ivory.  The background is the keys of an organ, with photographs of tusks seized from poachers, an African elephant and an ornate dagger handle made of ivory.

Ivory is very beautiful, but it is not worth the terrible price required to obtain it. 

Creativity Boot Camp

Look what I found...

Creativity Boot Camp check it out, I'm going to give it a go.