Aughost – Week 1

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#Aughost, Art, Aughost, creative, Doodles, Ghosts, Inspiration, Twitter

Aughost is upon us and I am loving seeing Twitter scattered with little ghosties of all shapes and sizes as @TheRealAuGHOST encourages one and all to take on the fun of joining in whatever their skill level …. now that’s a challenge that me and my silly doodles can take on! 😀

#Aughost Prompts

Day – Patience
Day 2 – Red
Day 3 – Charcoal
Day 4 – Lighthouse
Day 5 – Woodwork
Day 6 – Dice
Day 7 – Beyond

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Make sure to check out #Aughost on twitter (link below) and join in where you want to!

👻 🎺 Trumpets sound! Gaze upon the daily prompts for the 5th annual #AuGhost, the all-skills, all-inclusive, no-pressure art-event! #AuGhost2022 pic.twitter.com/ym5IVWwt8h

— AuGHOST (@TheRealAuGHOST) July 20, 2022

@gwendlynd #Aughost Week 1

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JaNEWary is here!

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2019, Inspiration, JaNEWary, january, life, New year new me, New Years, Resolution

So I have never really been one of those people that begins the New Year spouting about how it’s going to be a ‘new year new me’. Mostly because I know I am terrible at keeping resolutions anyhow, so why would I purposely be putting myself under extra stress trying not to fail at some ridiculous notion of exercising and dieting….it’s just not gonna happen.

But perhaps this year I can at least attempt something, something tiny, something minuscule but ultimately something New for me. So instead of proclaiming a ‘new me’ for 2019 I am going to be renaming and celebrating JaNEWary!

So what is all this nonsense you ask? Why are you just spelling January incorrectly?

Well instead of committing to a whole year of being able to pull off some kind of resolution then instead I am taking the laz…easier route of using January as a month to try out something new. It might be something small, like a new book genre or film that I wouldn’t usually watch. Perhaps I could try cooking something new or tasting a new food. Anything new will count; perhaps I might even find a new hobby.

Whatever it is I’m going to be doing it in the next few weeks and that will make up my JaNEWary. I’m not even going to forecast how many new things to find to do, I will just pin them up on Twitter when I find them. Hopefully just the notion of finding new things will invigorate me to do more than I have so far this year.

If you have any ideas for me then let me know, or maybe you want to join in? If so please let me know how you will be celebrating your JaNEWary, perhaps we can all find a little bit of inspiration from each other.

Best Wishes for 2019 everyone 🙂

Let #JaNEWary commence!

Inktober – Only for Artists?

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Art, Drawing, Ink, Inktober, Inspiration

I want to stamp a big fat ‘NO!’ on this right at the start, yet this year I have to say I’m feeling a little on my own out there for being someone who just likes to draw rather than can draw.

 

Perhaps I was just in a different place in my head last year or maybe I just follow a lot more actual artists on Twitter this year, or maybe it’s because I put more time into Inktober stuff last year. Whatever the reasoning behind it, all I know is that this year Inktober just doesn’t feel like something I should be joining in with: I’m more than a little out of my league here.

That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy seeing all of the wonderful creations coming up on my twitter feed because I do very much, and I especially like to see when people take a prompt and put a clever twist on it. I’m enjoying all of this and trying to retweet people so that others can share in this too, however I think last year there seemed to be more people putting out doodles who were not professional artists, or perhaps I just need to find some more like minded creative souls.

Yes I want to see the professional artists do their thing: I just think it would be nice to find some middle ground people too, so that is my goal this week. If you are quietly taking part in Inktober but don’t have an artist tag then I’m coming to seek you out!

Also can we please stop putting “this is my bad drawing” on perfectly good artwork, I know everyone is their own worst critic but some of these ‘look at my terrible (actually awesome) drawings ‘only serve to make other people feel even shittier about their own ‘bad’ art.

So I say from now on let’s just own that art no matter how bad we think it is, because surely the whole point about joining in with Inktober is just the action of creating something daily no matter the standard it perceives to achieve.

And with that here are my bad Inktober offerings for week 1

If you feel like you want to join in with Inktober, there is still time to join in so here is the link to read more and the prompt list. Or you could find another prompt list as there are many to use, or even just draw out what ever you want, it’s not about the result it’s about the action \o/

Inktober

CB&W: Toys for adults … Oh, OK & Children

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Art, CB&W, Creativity, Inspiration, moomins, photography, Star Wars, Toys

I thought my first post of the New Year should be something fun and creative, so I joined in with –

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Toys for Children or Adults

Nightmare Before Christmas

Moomins

 

Darth Vader

I’m not sure if that last one has too much colour, but I liked it!

Goodbye Inktober, Hello NaNoWriMo

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#Inktober 2017, #MythicalInktober, Art, Doodles, Drawing, Ink, Inktober, Inspiration, Mythical creatures

Well I had a lot of fun joining in with Mythical Inktober, and am pleased to have actually done something creative throughout October: the incentive of a goal really help me. Thanks to Frenone for supplying the prompts as I probably would have faltered on the original Inktober ones, but the mythical ones made the task far more fun and I now feel more confident sharing my artwork even when it isn’t great because of all the support from the Twitter & WordPress community.

So here are my last ones to complete the final gallery:

2017: The catch up year

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Blogging, books, Challenge, goodread, Inspiration, january, Reading

 

After finally feeling the urge to actually get moving and do something, I realised that what I need are a few nudges here and there to start the momentum and if left to my own devices I can happily just eat cheese and binge watch Netflix. So in order for this not to happen  (erm continue happening) I felt it was about time to find myself some new challenges or goals .. easy ones to begin of course.

One of the oddest things about last year is that I didn’t really seem to find the want to read, which is a strange place for me since I love reading and always have done, even as a child I would rather sit and read a book than play kerby (yes that exciting game of hitting a ball off a kerb and waiting for cars to pass) or tag with the other kids. Yet for some reason 2016 just was not a reading year..at all. In fact I can’t think of one single book I read over those 365 days which is not only sad it seems alien to me. Now I think it is time to put something in writing so this doesn’t happen to me again. How can anyone expect to write if they don’t also read? .. ridiculous!

So today I took a look around at some blog challenges and decided to register with Goodreads in order to nudge me to get at least 12 books read this year, also I found The Herd Presents blogspot that encouraged me to actually read outside my usual material. So this year I shall be trying a different genre or three.

 

Now I just have to find something to read … runs off to window shop

P.S Any recommendations are welcomed.

Seeing Green

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Challenge, coloryourworld, Community, Photo

Today’s #coloryourworld is the lovely sea green

Which is perhaps not so lovely, if you happen to be a duck

I cannot remember exactly where this was

But I do remember going there to visit a waterfall

It soon became clear that the brochure photographer had used a more ‘artistic’ license

 

Ridiculous Red

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Art, Blogging, Canalboat, coloryourworld, Nostalgia, Photo, Rosie & Jim

Gone are the days of painting the town red

Now I’m just blogging red photos instead

 

#coloryourworld – Red

Was nice to see a blast from the past though:

Gah now I will have this stuck in my head!

Day 3 – Quotes challenge

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Challenge, Community, Motivation, Quotes

Last day of the quotes challenge – With a shout out to Smile Circulation for the nomination

My quotes today are:

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

*Reminder* Rules for the challenge are…
1. Post 3 of your favourite quotes each per day for 3 recurrent days. The quotes can be of any other people or it may come straight from your own heart.
2. Nominate 3 or more bloggers with each post to challenge them.
3. Don’t forget to utter a thankful word to the person who nominated you.

I thought it was best to leave my no 3 unanswered as I wasn’t sure who would want to do this however, if you fancy giving it a whirl then – I nominate you! 😀

I love to see a new batch of quotes popping up 🙂

Day 2 – Quotes challenge

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Challenge, Motivation, Quotes

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.