Jessica Backup

Time for another Creative life-update!  The biggest thing happening lately really is the exhibition/event thing with Creativs that I was part of! It was a one week pop-up office in a garage with just SO MUCH ART. And my art was there too! It was a bit hard to get pictures of it, so these two are really the only ones I have. I was there at the opening, and I was meant to go there some more during the week but got a stupid cold so I had to stay at home. I made this, embracing my love for blue.  And in the process of making the above the image actually looked like this for a bit, and I liked it so much that I made it into two separate images.  I played around with some paint and the camera, and then I played around even more with it in Photoshop and made all of the above.  And lastly I made something that is slightly outside of my comfort zone, but I do really like it. OH AND ALSO!!! I’ve launched a new blog??? It’s called Wild Visual Heart, and is not going to replace...

It seems like number thirteen took a very long time to happen, but here is another update about my creative life!  My first creation of the year went along the lines of my “Curious”-pieces for Monthly Makers November . I also started feeling that I needed more physical creating in my life, and started experimenting with embroidery (here combined with some abstract painting on fabric. I invited my very good friend Angelica over for an embroidery session by the fire in our living room, and she brought stuff for embroidering what you see above, which is part of the version of the national costume for the area her mother is from! The one pictured here is her mothers, and what Angelica is aiming for. That morning I managed to take a few cute pics of Lumos in my window! There was so much snow back then, and the whiteness outside made for a great backdrop.  Made a good old abstract piece! I asked for name suggestions on Instagram and Twitter for this, and got the wonderful s...