Things that change things

This is about 4 blog posts in one because...I have been very busy...starting things and not finishing them

Since being back home from holiday, I have spent far too much time hibernating, avoiding things, procrastinating , twitching a lot and anxietying all over the place...

It is so easy to slip back Into old habits .

 So,  decided to shake it up a bit and break the mould ...enough is enough... I am young and free and have 3 months of freedom, being well and creative , witthout the responsibility of a job, i may never get is sort of free time again. 

So i am not afraid to go out, because quite frankly that is a waste of life. 

I have been geting out in the sunshine (lovely weather) and even done a couple of train journeys.

I like the train.

Here is a not so great pic of Neddy and Salvador cruising London. LONDON!

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I did some painting with flo... Artist in the making ...She said this is a picture of a snake and a dinosaur. I like it.

I have a summer project with the title 'these things change things' so have been thinking a lot about different things that change things.

So far I have written many lists and mind mappeded the many things that change things, only to reach the conclusion that every thing changes everything. I also started a few sketchbooks and couldnt get going because everything i did seemed rubbish, but just gotta get on with it now, none of this perfectionism nonsense. It really holds you back. 

I think every choice we make, every word we say every action we do changes something, for better or worse. The world is always changing. all things and all people and all of everything changes absolutely everything.  Deep.

So this frees me up to do whatever artings take me fancy. Even just making a mark on a page changes it, it changes depending on what material you use, what paper, what shape, how many marks, how big. you an change something by the way you draw it, what perspective, how much light is on it, just looking at it differently. You can change anything by doing anything.

Today I went to boscombe  to sarahs arty studio and drew a shell in lots of different ways, I used a feather and a oil pastel and did some dots and some lines. I tried drawing it without looking at it and just feeling it and this made some cool pictures and shapes.

I like drawing like this.

for things that change things i like the idea of how little random acts of kindness can change things. Wise Hollie randomly gave me this delightful bunch of flowers.....

and I changed from grumpy to surprised and contented...

Do i drew the flowers. 

I thought I might be able to change the world with some post it notes to cheer people up. So I went out in the sunshine an stuck little messages around Dorchester. 

Little flo my best lil friend from nextdoor helped me out

I was thinking of making a book of affirmations for my project, with the idea that saying these positive things brings hope and niceness. So been trying today nice things to myself, even if it feels like I'm lying... But fake it til you make it?

I'm going to play around with colour and the way words are written and images to go with them. I'm also doing lots of cutting and sticking and layering to play with texture using lots of different materials, and things laying around. I am recycling lots of crap that has piled up on my craft shelf and all the little torn up bits of paper I keep. I collected all the scraps of things on my floor which are now in a box for a project. There might be a couple of dead moths in there too, I like them because they are furry.

Tidying up changes things. I felt like i didn't know where to start wih artings because everything was so untidy... now i have organised all my paper into colour coordinated folders and put all my littletiny  things into jars. Now I have space to work. Here is a before and after of my space to do artings.

Messy

Tidy

I put it on a shelf. Now I have lots of space to mess it up again, yippee!