I admit it. When given the opportunity to make an artist series bag at a company team building event, I choked. I consider myself pretty crafty, creative even, but sit me down with paint and a blank canvas and I sorta can’t breathe. It’s worse then writer’s block because for me the “blank” is the problem, so on a handy dandy computer I just start writing to void out the white space, and if I hate, the delete key is my best friend later.
Canvas is not so forgiving. I’ve yet to find a way to delete paint. In any case, I’ve found my creative “out” for the next time I’m faced with a blank canvas. Just carve up some potatoes and make stamps!
It was fun and easy, and kills the fear of the blank canvas for me.
These folks have it down if you aren’t a do it yourself-er, and as you can see, we ripped them off on the bluebird, though we did add feet which makes ALL the diff if you ask me.
Now that we’ve done some practice rounds we are coming up with our own designs, like bikes, bunny butts and pandas and now everywhere we go we are keeping our eyes peeled for simple shapes we can carve out of potatoes.
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