{"id":1215,"date":"2017-08-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2017-08-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:00:00","slug":"show-us-your-media-challenge-3-all-about-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Show Us Your Media Challenge 3! All about inspiration…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is a privilege to see your art when you participate in this challenge. It is meaningful and powerful. Thank you. Let's keep it up. Our next challenge runs from August 17 to Sept 20, 2017. Here you go….<\/div>\n

You can\u2019t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n

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Create a piece of art about what inspires you. Do you purposely seek inspiration, or do you let it come to you organically? What do you do when you\u2019re not feeling inspired?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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As I thought about this challenge, I realized there's no one source of inspiration for me. I get inspiration from color, from nature, from other people's art, from design, from patterns….everything is fair game and might set me off on a creative path. The key is living so that you notice what is around you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
My family and I just got back from a trip to Tokyo, Japan. We had a fabulous time, and wow, I came home feeling incredibly inspired. One of the many beautiful sights we saw was this huge field of water lilies in Ueno park. We gasped when we saw them. The flowers were enormous, about 8" across, or bigger. The lilies covered an incredible amount of area. Stunning!<\/div>\n
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This pic with my son shows you the size of just one petal from the flower…it's almost the size of my son's hand.<\/div>\n
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These lilies were on my mind when I started this challenge. Painting flowers has been popular in mixed media for awhile, and I always wanted to try it, but never felt moved to do it. After seeing the flowers in Japan, I knew I had to paint them! I did two pages in my journal. The first page, on the watercolor paper in the Dina Wakley Media journal, is directly inspired by the lilies. The second page, on a burlap page in the journal, was just an experiment to see what would happen if I painted flowers on it. I enjoyed playing so much that I even made two larger flower paintings, inspired by my journal pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Products used:<\/div>\n
Dina Wakley Media Journal<\/div>\n
Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint in Lemon, Cheddar, White, Fuchsia, Night, Sky, Blush, Turquoise, Lime, Evergreen, Black<\/div>\n
Dina Wakley Media paint brushes<\/div>\n
Scribble Sticks<\/div>\n
Black Fudeball pen<\/div>\n
Dina Wakley Media White Gesso on the watercolor page<\/div>\n
Stabilo All pencil<\/div>\n
White paint pen<\/div>\n
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Here is the first journal page, done on the watercolor paper in my journal:<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Here's the burlap page. I found it pretty easy to paint on the burlap, but here are a few things to keep in mind:<\/div>\n