Cat-terfly?

by D.M. SessousApril 12, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 7

Observe a pet or watch a video of your favorite animal. Make something inspired by it.

My favorite animals include: butterflies (obviously, right?), cats, horses, frogs and turtles.

Since I have a plethora of cat pics, I decided to create a photo collage butterfly for today’s challenge.

If you’re curious, and because they’re so cute I can’t help but share, here are the photos I used to create the collage. Can you say, aaaww…

1917648_102408476438489_4032075_n_doc — Camilla in the cat bliss zone

100_0523_web — Baby playing “cat in a box”

100_0521_cropped_doc — close-up of Baby’s paws from above

100_0523_cropped_doc — close-up of Baby’s eyes from above (the “red eye” here was really cool)

100_0611_cropped — Baby and Birdie chillin’ while I did my “Home is where” shoot

100_0452_cropped_doc — Baby sitting pretty

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Berry good butterfly

by D.M. SessousApril 11, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 6

Look in your kitchen or a grocery store for inspiration. Work with the first fruit or vegetable to catch your eye (canned or frozen counts!)

I’ve always loved how eating a plate of fresh berries leaves wonderful, watercolor-like stains on my paper plate. So today, my butterfly is berry delicious.

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Color Collector

by D.M. SessousApril 11, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 5

Work with a collection of your own or borrow one.

I don’t really have a collection, so I decided to work with something I have a lot of…art supplies! I can’t seem to pass up a new box of crayons or a package of bright markers. I might be an addict. Or, as I like to justify it, er see it, I’m a collector of color.

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A walk in the park

by D.M. SessousApril 4, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 4

Take a 5 minute walk with no set destination. Make something with whatever materials you can find where you’ve ended up. Leave it for someone else to find but don’t forget to document it first!

I met up with my workout buddy after work and we walked from 2nd & Franklin to Monroe Park. Once there, I found some lovely Magnolia leaves and other tree debris and put together this rustic, au-naturale, butterfly.

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That’s my name

by D.M. SessousApril 4, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 3

Make something inspired by your own name.

For those of you who don’t know, my name is Denise.

Thoughts on wordplay:

Denise, derived from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine – still-life with wine and cheese, use wine to paint a butterfly…
Den-ise – ice – butterfly ice sculpture, ice cubes arranged in the shape of a butterfly…
De-nise – nice – knees – draw butterflies on both my knees….

Choices, choices, choices…and the winner is…

…wine, of course!

I used two red blends and a Moscato for the “watercolor” portion, then added detail with markers. And bonus, I got to enjoy a glass of wine while I worked. Fabulous!

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The butterfly princess and the seed

by D.M. SessousApril 2, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSprint – Day 2

Author Hans Christian Anderson was born on this day in 1805. Make something inspired by a children’s fable or fairy tale.

My first inspiration was the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” and since my theme for this challenge is butterflies (my blog is My Dreaming Butterfly after all) I decided to give a butterfly princess a bed of blossoms. Will she feel the seed hidden beneath them?

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In the palm of my hand

by D.M. SessousApril 1, 2016January 29, 2017

CreativeSpint – Day 1:

Create something that can fit in the palm of your hand, using materials in your immediate environment.

So, I was at work when the assignment came and used post-its, paperclips, tape and highlighters. Voila, une papillon de papier…

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CreativeSprint

by D.M. SessousMarch 31, 2016January 29, 2017

Have you heard about this?

I’m a fan of the Skull-a-day author Noah Scalin. He was a panelist for a James River Writers seminar where he introduced his book “Unstuck” in 2011. Since then I’ve been on the lookout for a smaller, more doable challenge and when I saw this 30-day sprint mentioned in the blog-sphere, I signed up.

That was months ago. So long ago in fact, I’d forgotten about it. Then, in the throes of my despair of being so far behind on the Photo 101 blog prompts, along comes the email saying that the CreativeSprint will start soon. In fact, it starts tomorrow, April 1, 2016.

And, that’s no joke. Looks like I’m going to be a very busy girl, very soon.

The only rule is that you do one creative thing a day for 30 days. You can give yourself a theme (the color pink, smiley faces, butterflies, shot glasses) or a method/medium (photography, watercolor, sculpture) to interpret with each daily challenge. Or, change things up day by day.

So, keep your fingers crossed for me as I dive in feet first into another creative blogging endeavor.