D is for discouraged today. I was watching Cake Boss while I was having my coffee yesterday and they were making a beautiful Moroccan theme cake this morning: jewel tones, gold line work and quilted fondant. It was incredibly beautiful so I thought I would try to make jewelled "D". The pencil work looked pretty good so I grabbed my coloring tools (gold sharpie, gold prismacolor pencil, Pitt artist pen and watercolors) started working on completing it. I like the effect of the gold sharpie, but it quickly fell apart for me after that. My gold line work inside the shapes looks like a first grader did it and when I tried to create the illusion of quilting I ended up with a soggy mess (from trying to add color over color) in the same color of blue that I swear every one of my cards has. Why can't I get away from that blue!
Anyway, this is ICAD and the point to do something creative every day. So I did that, but I don't love it. But in the spirit of ICAD I posted it the the Flickr group anyway. This morning I'm in Flagstaff and I brought my creative tools with me, but I am having trouble getting motivated to pick them up. It didn't help when I looked at the Flickr group this morning and it seemed like every new card posted since yesterday was a beautiful detailed drawing, obviously done by people with real talent.
I know, I know....the whole point of Discovering Doreen is to develop that talent through practice. And I even made a comment of agreement on someone else's card whose card read "Comparison is the Thief of Joy". I wasn't going to judge myself by other people's work during this ICAD project. But I guess it's human nature to do that. So I'm going to push past that right now, pick up my Pitt artist pen and doodle a D right now. Here I go...getting back on the horse that threw me!
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