Collaged

 

A public holiday, finally time to deal to some of the stack of pictures waiting to go into my inspiration book!  These are some of the images I've been collecting to inspire me:

 
 I see there's a bit of a bird theme going on as per usual!

 And even an Easter bunny.  A very happy Easter to you!

Happy new year!

We got back from out new year's adventuring to Whatipu and Raglan last night and I decided that a new year deserved a new inspiration board.  I had all these pictures tucked away, some from my old inspiration board and some that I had been hoarding for a long time. 

The owl is one of my favourites - it's a portrait the wonderful Graham Percy did of his wife. 

A very happy new year to you, may it bring lots of inspiration! 

Inspiration

I love looking at other people's inspiration boards so I thought I'd give you a peek at mine - it's a new addition to my wall and is providing a home for some of the bits and pieces that have been covering every surface of my room...

I think I might need one for every wall!

Inspiration

Inspiration's a funny old thing, isn't it. I came home from the post office today with both hands full of plants I wanted to draw and put them on my desk next to the dead praying mantis and butterfly also in the drawing queue (I shouldn't confess to the time I kept a dead bird in the freezer for drawing). I love saving things to draw later, but it can make for a messy house! I also save a whole lot of pictures for inspiration...I used to glue them into my sketchbooks, but that made the sketchbooks too fat, so now I keep them in scrapbooks, a whole lot of jumbled up collages. I thought I'd give you a peek at some of my scrapbook pages:
How about you? Do you have particular ways you organise the things that inspire you?