:: day one, getting started again... ::

journalling is helpful for me

 I don't usually have a problem getting started on new projects...I have lots of things unfinished - UFOs, yes indeed.

form drawing

 But...getting me into art again has been a very slow, painful, protracted process. I had made up so many reasons/excuses/beliefs about why I wouldn't start, yes indeed.

more form drawing

I've been reading lots about creativity and motivation, talking lots about how to get started, visiting shows and openings, talking to artists -heck I've even attracted artists for close friends and neighbours (!!) and everything I read or hear seems to say the same stuff to me - only I can do this, only I can choose it, only I can want it enough to make it happen. And if I practise it daily, or as near to as I can, then magic will happen...

Here's to magic and making a daily practise of creating seriously happen...

:: Geometric Art ::

As well as Spring heralding all kinds of wonderful outdoor activities, I have been working away at an assignment for my Course in Rudolf Steiner Education.  

12-petalled flower

This is how mathematics for classes 5/6 in a Steiner (or Waldorf) school is learnt - using art to access the learning.

nest of polygons

Each piece required an extremely high degree of accuracy and precision in order to create the result.

12-pointed star

I thoroughly enjoyed all the challenges we were presented and loved using colour to bring the maths to life.  Colouring each piece became meditative and quite soothing - in contrast to the exacting nature of the process of calculating and creating the shapes.

cascading squares

I don't remember my maths classes being anything like this...do you?