Yoga Moment -Artistamp

Well I'm at it again. Designing my first Artistamp in May. Did two last month. Not sure how many I'll get to this month. This one will be published with the last two (sometime in 2007). Here's the creative process I used for my "Yoga Moment" artistamp.

This one came about as a result of some synergy that was going on in my life during the last two weeks. I picked up a new yoga book a while back because it had a couple of poses in it I was interested in. It sat on my table for several days before I finally picked it up. One of the poses (not the one I used for this artistamp) looked extremely creative to me and I had a weird dream about using a similar clip in a collage project. Last week I thought again about using a yoga pose on an artistamp design sometime in the future and told myself to start looking for one that would be fun. Then I came across this advertisement that had a yoga pose on it that I liked. Then Carolyn? mentioned her new exercise goals in her blog and I mentioning yoga in my response. Finally I paid attention to the synergy that was flowing through the air, and my creative muse that had been smacking me up side the head saying, "Hey you... listen up!." I decided that I better make my self sit down and create before the ideas slipped from my mind, like so many others have in the past.

First I used the advertisement (that was crumpled up in the bottom of my purse) as my guide to draw the rough outline of this pose. The advertisement featured a male figure with a loose fitting shirt and pants on. I wanted a thinner figure of no particular gender, and unclothed. After scanning my sketch into the computer, I tweeked it a bit more, making the lines smoother and finalizing my shape.

Then I added splashes of colors to the inside of my line drawing, using one of the default paint brushes in a graphics program. I played around with the direction and size of the figure until I came up with what is pictured in the purple stamp frame below. See how easy it is to come up with fun art?!



Here's an ATC I made using my new design. It's one in a set of 10 I did for the monthly artistamp swap I participate in. I also made a couple of cards using my artistamps.



I have several left from the first print. Give me a shout if you'd like to have one of these extras. I'll offer them as freebies to the first 3 people who mention to me that they read this blog entry. Leave a message here or email me (cindy at crafthappy dot com) if you are interested in the freebie artistamps.