Music Video....okay, its really an oil painting video

watch video on youtube

Okay......painting was fun, but creating this little 3 minute video

was the highlight of my day.

I woke up Sunday with no ambitions....no creative projects on my mind, just sipping coffee and enjoying the extra hour I got from daylight savings.  Did I wake up at 10am? nope! I woke up at 9....aaaahhhhhh, that was wonderful.  So, sipping coffee.....talking with my teenage son about music mixing.  He has a new favorite group that mixes their own music "Blunted Beatz".  I asked him if there was an app for music mixing.  I love music....maybe I could mess around with mixing....you see I'm kinda an artsy A.D.D.....I love learning....creating....trying new things.... I dabble in a little bit of everything.  I'm surprised I've stayed focused on painting for so long, it must be the real deal for me.  But.... its the weekend .....so time to play with something else.

I downloaded an app called Music Maker on my iPad....plugged in my headphones and played.

Pretty soon I had something that was about 3 minutes long.....I loved the sound of it!! I played it over and over....I was wondering what else I could do and the thought occurred to me, I wanted to have a video of one of my paintings , in the process of being painted.  And the rest of my day started.

I got my iPhone....set it up in front of my easel, set up a still life....painted...filmed.  Into the house..

loaded it onto my computer, opened up iMovie ....trial and error'd my way into having a 3 min 

video, with my new music...and I uploaded it to youtube!

 That's a goal I've had for about a year now and it happened on a day that I had 

no intentions of doing anything but relaxing.  

I love when I relax, quite my mind and things fall into place....easy peasy.  

Sketching for fun.....

I just got a new iPad a few days ago, what a fun toy!!  I bought it for manipulating photos and working out new ideas for paintings.... But I got sidetracked with a sketching app!  

There is something so easy about picking it up and starting a sketch! I don't know why a piece of paper or sketch book is different. I guess I feel such a sense of commitment to create something wonderful....I'm not always up for that. If I don't like it.....I need to get rid of the evidence, rip it out and put it in the trash.  When my family hears the rip....they all turn, and of course...want to see what I thought was bad. Its kinda like a car accident.....there is a sounds that everyone will stop what they're doing to look....ripping paper always gets my attention too!  But this iPad....so silent, no commitment, just delete and start over...sweet. You know, I seem to like everything I draw on it too...I'm much kinder to myself with this little toy!

Okay.... maybe more than you wanted to know about my insecurities, but there you have it.  If you have an iPad and sketching sounds fun to you, download the "Sketchbook Pro" app, it's a lot of fun!!  It's something like $5 .....and  I use a little stylus instead of my finger, an inexpensive one works just fine :)