Step Outside Your Box Saturdays

Saying Goodbye

giffers — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:28:15 +0000

I’ve had so much fun doing this site and I hope you all have too. However, the time has come for me to focus on some other things in my life. I hope that at some point along the way I helped someone to step outside their creative box and to look onto the big wild world of art that knows no limits and no boundries. Keep on creating, my artist friends, and i’ll see ya on the net!

Eyes

giffers — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:01:25 +0000

The eyes have it, they are the windows to the soul. Eyes are one of the first things I notice on people. So much can be conveyed just by looking at someone in the eye, are they happy, sad, lying, lustful, mischevious. So this week lets take a closer look at them. Do something that has eyes on it, preferably close up, and maybe even your own!! Eyes don’t have to be attached to a face in art, and there’s no rule that say’s it has to be 2.

Joy!

giffers — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:45:45 +0000

Did you know that Joy is completely different than Happiness? Joy is something deep in your gut that envelopes your whole being. You can be unhappy one day, but still have Joy in you. This week, think about what brings you true Joy and do some art to show it. I think this would be an awesome journal entry!!!

sorry

giffers — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:31:06 +0000

I’m crabby this week therefore I’m not feeling so creative unless you wanna do some manic creating with me. If so, feel free to share it!

Spirituality

giffers — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:31:32 +0000

Some of you may have visted one of my other blogs called My Place to Shout Hallelujah and already know that I’m a very spiritual person. However, my kind of spirituallity isn’t necessarily the same as everyone elses. Merriam-Webster defines spiritual as “of or relating to sacred matters“. What things do you hold sacred? You can be deep and personal about it or you can be supperficial if you’d like. I don’t know about you, but my first cup of coffee each morning is pretty darn sacred to me LOL I’m curious to see how all of you step outside your boxes to show me what you consider spiritual.

Written Word

giffers — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:52:45 +0000

This week lets use 1 word in our art. You can use it once, or 100 times. One thing I want you to do though, is before you get any preconceived ideas about what you’re going to do for the art part of it, pick your word first. Then let your word guide your art. Maybe do a background first and add your word and then find the rest of it. This piece here is done with acrylic paints and while the paint was still wet, I took a rubber tipped painting stick and wrote the word think. It’s not fully obvious that it says think but you can tell when you really look at it.

2009

giffers — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:35:02 +0000

It’s inevitable, January of a new year, we all start taking inventory of our lives and decide that “this year” we’re going to make changes for the better. Some of us are better at this than others and are still following through in December. While others of us, have fizzled out in March. Which ever kind of person you are doesn’t really matter at this point, cause it’s still January and both kinds of people are usually still giving it the ol’ college try. This week, lets create a collage of sorts that depict what our goals, changes or what things we hope to accomplish in the new year. Make it one dimensional, 2 or 3 dimensional, whatever you’re comfortable with. Try to use bright colors to help give it an air of positivity to it. If it helps, when you’ve completed your piece, keep it visible at all times to help remind you of them through out the year.

Mail Art

giffers — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:10:37 +0000

I recently joined a 4×6 Mail Art group and I love it. I love the idea of creating pieces of art that are meant to be sent through the mail sans envelope. The Step Outside Your Box challenge this week is to step outside the envelope! Create and MAIL a piece of art with out the envelope. 4×6′s lend themselves to this because it is the size of a postcard. One thing to keep in mind when doing this is that it will be handled many times so it’s important to limit embellishments and to use a good adhesive and even consider coating it w/ a gel medium of some kind. Also use a good sturdy paper, I usually use watercolor paper. And what the heck, if you want to mail your art to me, I’m all for it!!! LOL

Body Parts

giffers — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:41:02 +0000

The human body can be such a beautiful thing, even though most of us aren’t too happy with the one we currently have, myself included, but we can certainly take pleasure in how others look. I know many of you have already at one time or another used a face in your art work using collage sheets and photographs, but lets think beyond the face. I have a sister-in-law that seems to have perfected the use of hands and feet and torsos. I can hardly walk past one of those hand display things at jewelry stores without thinking of her. She has several pieces on her blog if you’d like to take a look. Now some of her things may be a bit farther “outside the box” than some may be comfortable with, but it gives you some ideas of just how you can use parts of the body. So show me your bodies this week LOL *note* please be tasteful in your artwork, this is a family site.

Torn Magazines

giffers — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:30:40 +0000

Ok, I’m having trouble getting pictures to upload here since they changed the posting format. So todays photo will be a link to my art blog. On there you will find 2 things using torn magazine pages. One is a 4×6 post card, the other is a 16×24 canvas. I’ve had this idea in my head for a while and finally found the time to utilize it. Simply take pages from a magazine and tear them into strips. I chose a color pallet of red, white and black, but you do whatever suits you. I found a gel medium was probably the easiest way for me to adhere these strips, but you may find something else. I do hope you’ll give this weeks challenge a try.