creativity

Hello everyone! I hope you’re doing fine. 🙂

I just wanted to share with you a book that I’m actually having fun with. 🙂

It is Keri Smith’s Mess. 😀

I found this book 2 or 3 years ago from the bookshelves of Fully Booked. It is a fun book because it helps you to be creative, encourages you not to be afraid of committing any mistakes and will make you believe that every accident is beautiful and colourful. 🙂

This book gives only 3 rules. These are the rules to keep in mind when you are to buy or to do the tasks of this book:

Do not try to make something beautiful.
Do not think too much. (There’s no “right or wrong.”
Continue under all circumstances.

The rules and tasks are open to each person’s interpretation. 🙂

Here are some of my recent activities from this book:

Cutting circles from magazines. 🙂 I like the irregularity of the circles. 🙂 They look so cute. 🙂

Helping this very serious man to cheer up a little. 😛

Painting using my fingers. I draw like a kid. 😛

And finally, messing up the cover of this book! This was the very, very fun part! 😀

This book has helped me a lot to loosen out. I am the kind of person who really follows instructions to the letter, I colour inside the lines, and I never wanted to make a mistake or to get stained. But this book has just told me to do the opposite! At first, I thought the instructions were rebellious and ridiculous. But after trying it, it really helped me to be more creative and to believe that sometimes, in order for us to be creative, we should not be afraid to commit mistakes. 🙂

Recently, I have been hooked in painting using watercolors. I love watercolors since the colors look so transparent and you can easily blend colors to achieve your desired look. Also, it makes your paintings look whimsical and classy. 🙂

I am still in the process of learning how to use this medium of color. And just these past few days, I made some watercolor patterns. I am not really good in illustrating that’s why I resorted into doodling some of the easiest patterns I can think of. 😛

These are some of the patterns I ended up making:

The third one was my favourite since that was the toughest for me and I was happy it ended up, uh, well, pretty for a novice’s eyes like mine. Lol. 😀

I made it as my Ipad lock and home screen saver. I’m sooo happy to see my own painting on my device! 😀

This is very easy to do by the way. Just paint or draw your desired picture, scan it, edit it–which means you can turn it into a vector image for a more polished look (I did not edit mine since I like it to look like a watercolor painting), and sync it to your device, set it up as your screen saver and voila! You have your own pattern! 😀

If you like one of my patterns (that’s an IF, lol), you are so much free to get it. You can edit it and make it more pretty. 🙂

I hope you’ll have fun making your own watercolor patterns! 🙂

~Ainee