Dawn Blair's Blog, page 34

Short creative day, lots done

It’s been a short creative day for me. A lot of things to drag me away, but I still got words in, I added a second layer to the paintings I started last week (and let me say, wow, they are very cool if I do say so myself.), and I got The Tales of … Continue reading Short creative day, lots done

When manifesting leads to crying

Well, I’m going to chalk today up as a day. It’s been an interesting one. It’s been a long one, but nothing bad happened, so I’ll take it just being long. I did some interesting manifestation exercises today and modified the exercise with an interesting result. I then used tricks from my wonderful creativity coach … Continue reading When manifesting leads to crying

Book cover in process

Well, last night I started working on other book cover ideas for Beat of the Drum. I came up with a couple other good ideas and then spent part of this morning looking at different fonts. The font on the covers that I worked up looks squished on a couple of them. Strange, because on … Continue reading Book cover in process

Resistance? Stop and look.

In the mail today, I received the cups which are going to be included with the Kickstarter I’ll be starting soon. They look amazing. I can’t wait to take pictures for the Kickstarter and then start to drink out of them. Woo hoo! Now, I still just need to do the cover for the book. … Continue reading Resistance? Stop and look.

Happy Halloween

I worked today instead of this evening so that I could hand out Halloween candy tonight. I didn’t have many kids. I really need to decorate. Oh well, maybe next year. Merlin would like to mark himself as safe too. He hated people knocking on the door. Fortunately, without all the maple tree leaves on … Continue reading Happy Halloween

Having my own creative back

I’ve been in coaching or preparing for meetings all day today. Well, except for the moment where I got to stand outside with Merlin while all the gold turned leaves fell from my birch tree as if they were snowflakes. I do have another learning/coaching session shortly. I thought I’d use these couple of minutes … Continue reading Having my own creative back

Fresh starts

I got a good start on the larger painting I’m doing of my Black Sun Flower piece. The image above is the underpainting for the sun. Here’s a look at its current state: Then, I destroyed my first spaceship painting, the one where the nebula kind of reminded me a bit of Micheal Jackson as … Continue reading Fresh starts

Black Sun Flower finished

A few days ago, I shared my progress on my black sun flower painting. Here’s a first look (unofficial photos) at the whole thing: It is really amazing to watch this piece throughout the day. In the morning, the flower is really dark. Then, as the day brightens, more color comes into it. Then, it … Continue reading Black Sun Flower finished

Those have got to be hot dogs

No time to sit outside today, but I did get to hang out with family for a bit, so that’s a compromise I’ll take. Other than a portion of my words, nothing else got done. Still, good enough. I did do some cleaning (yuck, but wow that area looks nice now). Yeah, see what an … Continue reading Those have got to be hot dogs

Pretend it’s summer

I played a fun little game today called, “Let’s sit outside and pretend it’s summer.” With the cold snap well behind us and lowering temperatures coming, today was a beautiful day. Just perfect to sit outside. I worked on my website while I was out there. I finished the reconstruct about the time it was … Continue reading Pretend it’s summer