Visioning
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 6:31PM ;)
Vision board background - click to enlargeI've been meaning to make a vision board for quite a while now. I have quite a few images and words that I've collected to put on it. Unfortunately, because I haven't been feeling too creative and I haven't made time to work on many projects since completing my ARTbundance certification, I really haven't done much to advance it.
Today I was finally feeling a creative urge and that was the first project that sprang to mind. I've had this background in mind for a while now, but just hadn't gotten around to doing it. In the spirit of this week's class from SARK's Dream Boogie teleclass series, I decided to "just do it," like the Nike commercial says.
I used a prepared canvas board that is 18" by 24" and sprayed it with various colors of Radiant Rain shimmering mists. I don't know how well it shows up in the photograph, but it is very iridescent. For those of you who have the mists and are curious, I used 8 colors: Copper, Jasper Red, Rosebud, Just Peachy, Sky Blue, Celadon, Key Lime, and Solar Gold.
Side note: The sad thing is that the company that makes these sprays and Twinkling H2O pots of iridescent watercolors went out of business a while back. They were a great company to work with back when I was in the retail craft supply business. They were very generous with volume discounts when a set of new colors came out and they did great demos at every CHA I attended.
Anyway, today I used SARK's micromovents to get the background done, so the next micromovement is to find all of the clippings that I had collected for my vision board collage. Once I find them, I need to go through them to see whether I have everything I need and, if not, collect the rest of the images for the collage. The last step is the easiest - lay them out on the board in a pleasing way and glue them down with matte medium. Easy peasy! We'll see how it turns out...
Reader Comments (1)
Hey There!
I have been making vision boards for myself since a while back. While, surfing the net, I saw this blog of yours regarding vision blog. I really like your artsy paint as a background for your vision board. As I have read, you are starting to make your own board to manifest yourself and your hopes and dreams. Do come and visit my blog too. I have tips there on how you can avoid mistakes as you begin making your vision board.
I really like your blog and would hopefully like to see your progress in creating that vision blog that's why I have bookmarked your blog.
Cheers and More Power!