First christmas painting of 2018

I am on with my first Christmas painting of the year. I didn't do any last year so I really want to get back the tradition of creating a couple of festive paintings this year!

I am halfway through my first and I cant wait to show you it when i have finished. It's snowy and sweet and its making me feel all fuzzy inside knowing Christmas is on its way!

I have been camcordering the progress and plan on making a speed painting video with the footage. I't's coming on lovely so far.

Hope you are all having a FUNKY Autumn. We have been blessed with mild and mostly dry weather. It's lovely to get out in the country air looking at all the colours of the tree's and leaves around us. PERFECT!!

Catch up soon ~ Miss Funky xxx

My first vlog

I was nervous talking to the camera. I felt a bit silly. But I did it, and now I just gotta try and do it again!

I have wanted to vlog for a while but i didmt have the confidence to do it. My main reason was to share with you all what i have been upto, and also give some behind the scenes to my FUNKY Creations.

I love watching Vlogs. People seem so good at it. My favourite vlogs are studio vlogs where you get to see behind the scenes and also whilst the artist is working. I love the little insights into their life. It feels like you really get to know the artist. I like that.

Here is my first ever Vlog. Be kind, im just getting to grips with it. And also gaining confidence in front of my camera.

I am creating like CRAZY and taking part in INKTOBER!

I have been creating like CRAZY Lately, just mainly quick sketches of IDEAS, Things to make dreams come true. WATCH THIS SPACE.

I have been creating whilst listening to my favourite inspiring vlogs, which made me think . . .

 . . . SHOULD I VLOG?

I have made some pretty cool music vids with art

But I thought that a more personal approach would be better. HI. HELLO. THIS IS ME.

Im working hard at the moment on INKTOBER. But ALSO creating MANY a FUNKY GEE-GEE


Catch up soon ~ Miss Funky xxx

The pencils are dancing again!

Get IN , . . . Woop woop They are DANCNG!!

Like not swaying but BOPPING and JUMPING!!

The FUNKYNESS  is BACK like really BACK :)

So I have been CREATING . . . LOTS! I have managed to do alot of sketching and then brought them sketches to life with ink and watercolour pencils. It's almost like i have been creating all along. Yet I will NEVER EVER take this creativity for granted! I remember the time i couldn't and I am determined to stay where I am!

I picked a theme ~ Careers and i have had the best time creating some so far! I have created some VERY FUNKY Gee-Gee's doing some very FUNKY JOBS. I can't share jst yet. As i have plans for them all.

I then decided to take part in the popular challenge. Inktober. If you have never heard of it, it's a challenge where you create a peice of art each day using the prompts given. It was created by Jake Parker and it is a brilliant way to disapline one's self to create EVERY DAY throughout the month. I wanted to join in to really push my creative boundaries, learn skills and get better at something I love the most!

Here is the prompt list

Here is my first 5 ~

Poisonous 

Tranquil

Roasted

Spell

Chicken




NOW IT'S ONTO THE NEXT 5 AND THEN THE 5 AFTER THAT! 31 Illustrations im ABLE and READY!!


Watch this space ~ Miss Funky xx

A little bit of cartooning

Ive started a canvas
I'm excited to see it when its finished.

So this weekend i felt quite creative, I had an idea. Then realised i had limited colours in my art box and some very poorly brushes. Like dead really. The thing is the last time i used my brushes was to paint my fence. Wooden fence. And it really killed the bristles. Fence looks good though! Hahaahaha

 Il try get a better photo of the whole thing to show you.

BUT, With broken bristles i have began a painting, and i really cannot wait to see it finished :

Well that went badly didn't it?

So my last post's were all 'KINDA' FUNKY and POSITIVE.

Full of optimism, and pride for what had once been.

I made a promise and I failed to follow it through. 

I am deeply sorry for that.

The truth is I am creatively STRUGGLING. Well actually struggling is an understatement. Creativity was something that I needed to do, a calling, as natural to me as taking a breath. I suppose now without it, it is like suffocating. And it's scary. Like wondering if one could ever breathe again, I wonder if i will ever create in the way i did. Naturally, not forced. I am looking back at what seemed easy and wondering why now it seems SO HARD?? 

It's not the lack of trying. CRIKEY. I have tried, Many a time. And sometimes it works, it looks like what it's suppose to be . . . Except it lacks the FUNKY that once i could see and feel with each stroke of the pencil or brush.  That excitement, BUZZ, ENERGY. What it was I lived for. Each day.

I spend so much time now looking at wonky lines, out of proportion features and the wrong mixture of colours. It's just not working for me. How I so dearly wish it would. 

BUT I still feel it. That has to count for something, Right? It's faint. Very faint. The memories a little blured. But I do remember the buzz i felt, the crazy hand that HAD TO BRING CREATIONS TO LIFE. The way i looked at the world in cartoon form.
 Mishaps made into funny memories. Memories made into cartoon form. When we are children almost everything feels this way. Like a cartoon. Everything exciting. Bright colours that remind us of things, times, places. As adults we become desensitized to those 'perfect colourful memories' everything can easily become black and white with shades of grey. Colour is something we rarely notice. Unlike childhood when the smallest things seem colourful and are worth noting. And i felt so blessed to be able to see things in such humorous form, bring a simple thing to life with a FUNKY twist. Storymaking with my Funky GeeGee creations. And also meeting some fantastic people and their horses and ponies along the way and having the privalage to bring their best friends to life in FUNKY form. 

I think it is all these memories that keep driving me to try. I am filling in what used to be creative time with family life and my pets. I love each day I am surrounded by each of them. I am also horse riding and spending times with horses as regularly as i can. I'm surrounded some days by 'horsey people' 'Brilliant, lovely people' and I am forever thankful for this too. But there is that missing peice. I'm sure other people can relate to. And I NEED IT BACK! I really really need it back.

For now I look through my portfolio of older works. They do inspire me, as well as dishearten me. But the mixture of both emotions gives me the will to KEEP TRYING. KEEP DREAMING and somehow KEEP BELIEVING it WILL come back!!

Thankyou all for bearing with me. 

Here is a few of my older works to share for now. ENJOY

To see more please browse Galleries or past blog post's.

LOVE ~ Miss Funky xxx

Ive new ideas, after just playing with paint and enjoying it again

Sometimes we need to step away from what we once enjoyed to try something new and expand on our knowledge and personal skills. 

Then when the time is right we can come back to the thing we once loved with a clearer view, better insight and renewed inspiration.

(Stacy)

I have done just that. After a creative block/break I found myself looking for ways to break that barrier. It took time, time away from what i loved. But time can go quickly, when you fill it with other things and you try not to worry over what was. Just enjoy what is. When i finally broke through my creative block and i found i had a paintbrush in my hand again, i tried not to force the Funky GeeGee's. After all they are my favourite kind of art. What i love to let my creativity free with the most. But i still found them hard. At times IMPOSSIBLE. So much so I almost put the paintbrush back down, until i remembered how good it felt to have it there in its pride of place once more. 

For many years i have blogged about the importance of finding that creative side of ourselves. 

Being beaten by my own words is not an option. I picked up some acrylics, a few brushes, a couple of pallette knives and i filled my pan with water ready to bring some part of myself to the blank canvas in front of me. I let the colours flow and the paintbrush dance. Abstract is where i find peace. Where i can let whats in, out. Letting the brush strokes and colour speak for me, however i am feeling or whatever i am thinking at the time.

I will get back to creating my Funky GeeGee's when the FUNKY side of me comes back fully. I promise, soon THERE WILL BE a FUNKY GEEGEE. For now though they would just be GeeGee's and they deserve so much more than that!

I have had many an idea come to me (which is good) But translating those ideas with pencil, ink or paint is just not happening for me like it once did. BUT it will. I tell myself IT WILL. and until then i am just happy to have a paintbrush in my hand again. The music plays and i drift off. 

MY MEDITATION. MY CREATIVE JOURNEY.

Catch up soon  ~ Miss Funky (Stacy) 

It been a LOOOONG time. But i am back

Hi my Funky friends, long time, no hear. I am sorry for that.
BUT I am back, hopefully and EVENTUALLY 

As FUNKY as before!!

Its only a filler

I havent created a Funky GeeGee for many a month, in fact well over a year. I found creating so hard, even a stickman was trivial! I tried until i literally cried. Then i gave up for a while.

FAST FORWARD A YEAR OR MORE ~  I got this urge to create Funky GeeGee's again. They didnt come easy, in fact i found them so difficult i almost gave up trying. I tried to not get caught up in the whole 'MUST BE PERFECT' frame of mind and just tried to create them the best i could. I FAILED. MANY TIMES! I tried again, and again. and then BOOOOOMF I grasped it. I found my FUNKYNESS. Or enough Funkness to create a couple of paintings. Which i am happy with.

Bee is an appoloosa 17hh mare. She is 4 years old just starting her ridden career and ready to go have fun with. She is inquisitive, stunning, and SPOTTY!!! My word, what a challenge to create ~

Bee

This is Viv and Lily. Viv is a standardbred bay mare, she is calm and cool. Lily is a piebald cob x standardbred and is a little more erm . . . ON EDGE, Shall we say. Bless her!!!

I have doodled lots more, and had a play around with abstract and acrylics to just get back into the motion of creating art again. Its not easy breaking through Artists block but i think/hope/pray I made it :) All i gotta do now is KEEP CREATING. Keep imagining. LET THE IDEAS FLOW THROUGH, the pick up the paints or pencils and CREATE!!!

Sychronicity

Trance

ZEBRA

ZEBRA (C)Stacy Green

In my absence from art though i have had fun with this cool dude!!

Sorry for my absence, i am planning on trying to update regularly from now but please bare with me.

LOVE YA ALL MY FUNKY FRIENDS
STACY (Miss Funky) XXXXX