Starbright Creations

Career Cockerel / Rooster – For My Sister Lisa

flyingfreedomxx — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:58:29 +0000

My sister is a currently studying Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern at Leeds College Of Art. She does fantastic children’s illustration.

I painted a Rooster/Cockerel because I read that this symbol is great for career advancement and also I am aware of her love of all things chicken and wildfowl related (grin).

Check her site out here : http://cargocollective.com/lisa-martin

The Rooster borrowed from : http://fengshui.about.com/od/fengshuicures/qt/feng-shui-birds.htm

Rooster. The Rooster is often used in feng shui for career advancement purposes, because the same Chinese word used for the official is also used for the Rooster’s chest. No matter which culture you come from, though, if you watch Roosters you will notice that they tend to be quite bossy, don’t they? For career advancement purposes the image of the Rooster is best placed in one’s lucky feng shui direction. The Rooster wakes up very early and announces the dawn of a new day/the dispersing of darkness and dark spirits, so the Rooster also came to symbolize the ability to ward off evil spirits.

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Snowflake Fairy – My Aunt Susan’s Painting

flyingfreedomxx — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:49:03 +0000

My Aunt Susan’s painting was the first gift I made. My only regret was adding ink to outline the fairy. I had glossed the canvas before deciding I would rather it was not outlined so it had to stay that way. Embracing small imperfections and allowing myself mistakes. My Aunt loves fairies and the colour blue.

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She Walks In Beauty – My Cousin Leanne

flyingfreedomxx — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:43:35 +0000

I painted several paintings for Yule presents this year and I enjoyed doing this one. My cousin Leanne has such strong powerful features and the contrast between the black and white worked well. I was running out of time so I had to trace the outline of her features onto canvas instead of drawing freehand but everything else was all me. This is one of her favourite poems she is a lecturer and seminar tutor for “Victorian Passions, Victorian Values” at Newcastle University in the UK. Lord Byron inspires her. Here is her academic profile:

http://newcastle.academia.edu/LeanneStokoe

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Yule Gifts For Family – My Mum’s

flyingfreedomxx — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:48:10 +0000

A Gift For My Mother For Her Christmas Celebrations

It was a challenge to paint but I got there in the end. I had to re-do the colours a few times but the overall effect turned out quite nice in the end.

This painting was a spontaneous energy painting. Painted by the Angels.

I asked the Angels to paint a painting for my Mum. So this is an energy painting. Full of life.

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Blowing Love

flyingfreedomxx — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:50:15 +0000

I feel I created this drawing to blow some love my way. I felt in need of nurturing.

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A Bouquet Of Butterflies

flyingfreedomxx — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:45:08 +0000

Haven't you always wanted to receive a bouquet of beautiful butterflies? I have.

I used my new Derwent Inktense pencils. I am still getting used to them.

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Weird Therapy

flyingfreedomxx — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:41:19 +0000

Okay, so admittedly these are VERY strange. However, these are drawings of my inner world. I have been processing and having a lot go on inside me lately and some of it has not been easy so my art is expressing my inner workings.

The head circled is in both drawings. Not sure what they mean yet.

Also do you doodle something if you are having some inner issues? Over and over and over again? The triangles felt important and the infinity in the next one always is.

Looking for a way through some inner issues.

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Feng Shui – Wealth Ship

flyingfreedomxx — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:30:07 +0000

This past 2 to 3 weeks I have been dabbling with the Feng Shui of my flat. It has been an interesting challenge as my flat is probably a Feng Shui experts worst nightmare lol! As we live above a garage, have only one entrance to our home, our bathroom is next to our kitchen, out kitchen is where our front door is and our wealth direction and upstairs is one complete room with no seperate walls. So its fun!

So I have been doing my best at shifting energy, moving furniture, bringing in new energy, cleaning, healing, balancing my home and I still have more to do.

This painting I created last night. I am trying out my new Derwent Inktense pencils. I am still learning how to use them haven’t quite got the drift of them yet with watercolour/ink etc etc but its quite a cute painting. The sun went a bit wacky but I am learning to accept my ‘mistakes’ in painting as mere quirks.

A ship coming in in Feng Shui is very auspicious so I have hung this in my South East corner of my flat. Its quite a peaceful ship, its not roaring in to the dock of my home, just gentle. This is perfect as I want things to naturally unfold in this area in my life and for not to be too frightening to my inner child so resistance comes up. The ship to me represents wealth, abundance and plenty. And not just in terms of money but in terms of an abundant heart, love, acceptance, joy….. the whole kit and caboodle.

I added a dash of gold marker pen.

Other wealth paintings that you could do for this area is a waterfall.

If you want to know more about my little experience of Feng Shui check out one of my more recent videos (apologises for the extremely bad position of my video camera I did not realise I had positioned it so low haha!).

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Early Abstract

flyingfreedomxx — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:10:53 +0000

I decided if I am going to share all my art I will share ALL my art and this includes the paintings at one time I thought were horrendous! And these 3 I found strange. Sorry for the blurry photo my scanner is in midst of getting fixed so its a bit of a shaky photo. I painted both these paintings in one afternoon last year. It was at a time when I had been to an exhibition. I was so inspired by his energy paintings I just wanted to try out painting energy. I was not in the best place emotionally (I think) back then but also using painting as a healing tool. I was not very efficient with paint use lol! I just plastered paint on for the sake of soaking up the colours onto my paper.

I quite like them now. The magic of the computer screen with light behind art can transform paintings and bring new life to them.

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Child Dreaming

flyingfreedomxx — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:31:26 +0000

So a little of my process with this particular painting. I thought I would share my honest raw experience for newbie artists like myself who may feel the same kind of fears, anxieties when creating.

I sketched this 3 times, with 3 different girls. I painted it on canvas paper and I mucked up my colours a hundred different ways. The savannah blanket started as gooey mess. I used an old sample paint pot for my apartment wall. I forgot this kind of paint does not dry as well and is a completely different consistency to acrylic. It looked like a pile of pancake mix to begin with (grin!). I then added a touch of brown and it turned all muddy haha! I then added yellow and red haha! Still did not work. I painted this section a lot!

The girl. Well I am still really new at drawing figures. Learning. I have lots lots to learn. I painted her skin colour with the same wall paint and so had a lot of fixing to do. I finally got the colour right and changed her hair a lot. I realised I really did not know how to define lines without overemphasising them with small paintbrush. I need to educate myself. Any practised artists out there please share. I ended up using a slightly darker skin tone pencil in the end. I am still learning how to do highlights on the hair so I used gold paint instead.

The giraffes. Well they looked gorgeous in pencil I then added brown splodges haha! and it did not exactly turn out how I would of liked. However, I still think its okay. I used gold paint for the giraffes lighter colouring.

The sky. Totally new to sunrise/sunset skies. I just played with colour to be honest on this section of the painting.

The whole idea around this piece of art was to be wrapped in the blanket and landscape of nature. What a wonderful world!

Oh and I just wanted to add my emotions sometimes when painting.

Perfectionist, self-critical and I cuss a lot – some of the time (grin).

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