I’ve been reading a book called Living The Creative Life. I’ve barely gotten into it, but one important point the book makes is that everyone is full of creative ideas - it’s just a matter of learning to encourage, embrace, and capture them… So when I woke up and this image flashed in my mind, I had to capture it before the day ended. I did this quick sketchy with watercolor, gouache, and ink. Not sure what I’m going to do with it yet, maybe it will be an embroidery or quilty thing, or perhaps I’ll just repaint it bigger and better. Really, the image in my mind is much better, but at least got something down in order to recall the mental image again.

So anyway, back to that book– It is a little hard to read because the type is smallish, and it’s overlaid on colored backgrounds; however, it is beautiful to look at in my opinion. It’s full of lovely art from featured artists, and each of them discuss their work, studios, their approach to creativity. I just purchased it over the weekend, so I haven’t gotten too far yet, but I can’t wait to get home and read on. There are some preview pages available at Amazon if you want to take a peek inside.