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

Lots of doodles, scribbles and notes

There have been oodles of doodles and many a colour,
The sketchbook is filling from cover to cover.
Ideas, Ideas and more rattle round,
googley eyed GeeGee's waiting to be found.

Hello, and i hope you are all well and enjoying the beautiful Autumn colours! WOW, this year the colours of the earths canvas have been magnificent. The trees stunning as they changed from green to brown or yellow or red, the contrast on some of the leaves is almost that of a masterpiece painted on canvas, each its own individual abstract painting and when in among the rest that have fallen with it, simply stunning.

The Mini Funky's have been enjoying kicking up the leaves and picking them up throwing them over their heads, we are going to try and do a photoshoot over the next couple of days and im going to try and capture the leaves as they fall over their smiley little faces. Its like magic watching these simple pleasures of nature being enjoyed by them both, they too seem to connect to it, see the beauty in each season. They have asked to go out with their cameras and take some photos of the trees. Its going to be a busy end of week! Lets hope the sun stays out and plays fair.

We had our first frost this morning, it was gone by after breakfast so i didn't get a chance to capture any photos. I cant wait for the first hard frost, hopefully with a little sunshine to make it sparkle in the photo, a little low fog maybe over the valley . . . Not too much mind, enough to look spooky, Oh and a horse or sheep or something in the foreground, and OK, Now im just being picky haha, But i really can't wait to get those photographs when the crisp frost covers the meadow. 

I did however get a one the other morning of the sheep, and some fog, AND a little sunshine . . . 

Spooky isn't it, Wooooooo ooooooooo ooooooo!!

The ponies are looking FLUFFY!!! 

Winter is ON IT'S WAY!! Dig out those thermals and layer up like an onion!

It has been the school holidays and the beginning of them it rained LOTS! Infact at times it literally poured. BUT we held tight and filled our time indoors with well STUFF. Thankfully by the back end of the week we were blessed with some sunshine, and dry days so we could FINALLY ESCAPE and do some stuff outdoors. 

The weekend came and it was time for HALLOWEEN . . . 

Party food, Mmmmm Mmmmmmm!! Gotta love a good buffet. The kids all had a fantastic time, lots of SPOOKY FUN had by everyone, and tummies FULL to the brim. Our homemade gingerbread spooky biscuits went down a treat, the kids were happy with their bakes! Bless them.

Thankfully the rain had stopped by the weekend so the GeeGee's could get out on their broomsticks! Heaven knows what they would have done if they hadn't got out and done their 'around the county race' that they do every year!!

Some of the less adventurous of the GeeGee's opted for keeping their hooves firmly on the ground, and well, they went out and done a spot of trick or treating . . .. 

Awwww don't they look AWESOME !!

This week i have spent d-spookyfying our home and i have given it a good once over, from its bombardment over the holidays. Fun can be well . . . MESSY?!! That is i suppose why it is so FUN :)

Then i have settled back to some writing and doodling, as well as enjoying some quiet time reading a new book i have just recently bought. The peace and quiet has been bliss. 

I have many new ideas of cartoons that have been rattling round upstairs and i'm trying to file them into some sort of theme or order so that i can bring them to life in the best way possible. So far i have a sketch book almost full of ideas, and nothing as yet has been brought to life.

 But i am on with one, it is a WIP, still lots to do but i have been squeezing the odd hour in here and there and slowly building up the layers to give it that FUNKY-NESS!

Hope you like it so far, it's making me giggle each time i work on it, and of course giving me EVEN MORE IDEAS!

CRIKEY, I'm going to need office staff soon upstairs in funky studio (Aka my head) to help me sort through it all, the files are building up quicker than the pencil can dance!

Well i'm going to take a leaf out of this GeeGee's book and go dig out my warm PJ's, and grab an hour with my book. Catch you all soon ~

Love ~ Miss Funky and the GeeGee's xxx

Autumn cartoons

Here we are in the depths of Autumn here in the Derwent valley. The tree's have all changed their leaves and the ground is covered in a carpet of burnt orange and yellow, truelly stunning time of the year . . .

 . . . Well in-between all the RAIN SHOWERS!!

The ponies are both layering up, they have lost that shiny gleaming coat in favour of thermals and fluffy boots. Smurf is starting to get his moustache back which he gets every winter, so cute! Mud is starting to build up in gateways and around water source and the ground is becoming slippy to walk in many places. Oh how i haven't missed all this mess haha!

It is that time of year now when i see friends horses and ponies start to be clipped out and their fluffy coats replaced with brightly coloured, sometimes very FUNKY patterned rugs. Many are coming in on a night now, all cosy in their thick fluffy beds, that smell of haylage and garlic that fills the air!
Our two ponies will live out this year, the meadow they are on is 13 acres with ample natural shelter, a fresh running water source and a nice sized herd to all huddle and keep warm. The farm will start to hay them when the grazing dies back, but for now the grass is still green and they are thriving on the grazing they have. I love these two so much, they really do make me SMILE!

As you can see, they are FLUFFY! Unlike the Funky GeeGee's, 

YES, some of them have been for their hair cuts, and OH HOW SMART!!

Don't they look smarty pants, don't worry they all got plenty of blankets to keep them warm, they were shivering like i'd robbed them of their skin! I did tell them they would thank me when they go out and do their exercises, they looked at me like exercise was a good winter plan and asked when they would be supplied their hot cocoa's and onsies. WIMPS!!

I have been painting again, i forgot how much i missed my acrylics, i tend to mainly work in watercolour pencil now but there is something special about the feeling you get pushing paint around the canvas, It's not a horse . . . But its close to one ~

Its not quite finished yet, but i'm enjoying working on it. I'm also enjoying working on a rather FUNKY halloween GeeGee and also getting the Funky GeeGee's into the Christmas spirit in preperation for our Christmas 2016 collection of pictures. Lots to come over the coming weeks.

I also had a play with colour and texture and created an abstract piece.

I hope everyone is well, and i shall catch up real soon with some 'Seasonal GeeGee's' and some more cartoons of my best friend 'SMURF'. Meanwhile HAVE FUN WITH YOUR HORSES, and enjoy their FUNKY SIDE.

Catch up soon ~ Miss Funky

When the FUNKY COGS start working . . .

When the 'FUNKY' cogs start working, 

and the pages fill with colour,
Cartoons suddenly come to life,

Bring a 'GIGGLE' to share with each other.

Hello everyone, here we are at the end of Summer and into Autumn we start to glide, suddenly long leisurely hacks are replaced with muddy boots, spiders loose their summer homes as the rugs come back out for winter, and water troughs suddenly become grubby and full of leaves.That gleaming coat you have been taking photographs of all summer suddenly looks like a raggy teddy that has been hung out on the line too long! 

I know both our ponies are looking VERY fluffy again, Smurf is starting to grow his mustache back as he does every year, he looks so funny. I love my little FUNKY ponies.

I have started this blog post with not really much of a plan of what to write, I haven't done very much 'arty' this year until this last few weeks when i have felt those funky cogs start to work again. It was nice to feel them, even if they took some getting into momentum . . . They were of course seized shut from being locked away for so long, BUT they are moving, admittedly at times rather CLUNKY and they heat up easy and i fear lost bolts, BUT moving is momentum, momentum is good. 

So then what have i done with my 'MOMENTUM' ? Well after a summer of PONIES and our second summer with Sparky pony and the inspiring collection of memories stored from days with the kids and ponies i have been sketching down ideas for future cartoons, lots of giggles, many a smile! Along with this Smurfmy little rescue foal is now all grown up and can you believe he is 3 years old! What a life we have had together so far, so many memories, we have also come through so much together and i feel this incredable bond with him i have never felt with a horse before, he really is SPECIAL. We have mainly spent our days chilling together in the field and i have been enjoying playing and running with him on the lovely summery days we have been having. The times i have with Smurf fill me with joy, and Sparky she is just such a gentle and loving character with a lot of cheeky-ness thrown in! 

Add the pair of them together and there is some serious amounts of HUMOUR! 

My cartoonwork i feel has a fresh edge to it now that i have the opportunity and privalage to have the ponies to inspire me, my work will have a more personal feel, a new edge. I always got attached to my Funky GeeGee's when i created them but now that i am creating them with all these personal memories and feelings attached to them and now with them being MY ponies i am creating for my new collections . . . 

 . . . . Well that just makes them even more personally FUNKY! :D

My newest collection of paintings are based around the ponies, the first collection is SMURF and his pre-school updates as he gets ready for 'proper' school next year.

I'd love to share with you the few i have done so far, hope they make you GIGGLE~

He really is a FUNKY little GeeGee!

I also plan to create a collection starring Sparky pony and the troubles of a first pony which i will launch later in the year. I hope to share many giggles and the ability to relate to the comical side of our GeeGee's. I as always am very thankful to all of my followers, i love to know my work is also enjoyed by others all over the globe and i feel privileged to have you all join me on my FUNKY journey, wherever that may take me.

To end this blog post i'd love to share with you a video of my cartoonwork over the last couple of years, mixed with an insight into my Funky life and the ponies. I plan to move forwards with all these new FUNKY ideas that are wizzing through my head at the moment and also plan to get back into writing and releasing all these funky ideas out onto paper, YIKES . . . Best go buy some more, oh yeh, and where did i last see that pencil sharpener? Hahaha, Hope you enjoy my video, thankyou all :)

Catch up REALLY soon ~

Love ~ Miss Funky xxx