AEDM 2011: Day 6 Chapter 9 Check In

I´m taking part of Leah Piken Kolidas´ "Art Every Day Month" project for the 6th time and I´m already blown away by the talent I´m discovering on line.

An artist that I immediately added to my feeds is Tracy Swartz.

Her gourd people are cute, funny and meaningful as she makes some of them to represent people she knows in real life, adding their features and personal characteristics to her art pieces.

Here are some Fairy Gourdaments she is working on. There are nine of them total. Her friend sent her pictures of her family members along with their favorite colors and things they like or have an interest in.

I asked her what she wanted to share with other artists and here´s what she had to say: It's important not to give up on that thing that brings you joy. It adds so much to your life and should be honored, no matter what it is.

Horace the Flying Pig on display at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards Celebrity Gift Lounge

Thanks for playing along Tracy!

You may remember that at the end of chapter 5 I interviewed Jamie Ridler (Missed that one? Click here to read it & watch Jamie´s video for you). Jamie from Jamie Ridler Studios is a creative living coach. From coaching to workshops, from podcasting to blogging, Jamie´s work helps women find the confidence and courage to discover and express their creative selves so they can be the star they are.

Jamie has kindly given me three copies of Your creative Spark to share with my readers. Camilla won the first one and the second one will be given by the Chapter 10 Check In. That will be on Sunday November 20th. Just leave me a comment stating your interest to be added to the draw.

Now for our weekly "The artist´s way" by Julia Cameron check in:

1) Are you still showing up for the morning pages? One of the exercises this week was to reread them, did you? Do you hide them in a secret place, out of sight?

2) Artist´s date. Have the dates slid down the "Important" list? Did you go anywhere to fill up your well?

3) The tasks. These week we only had a few but they were quite intense! How did you react to the exercises?

How to share with MrLinky: you type in your name in the first box (the way you´d introduce yourself) and then the url/link to your post (not your whole blog url) where you share your work with the current chapter. When you come back next week your name will likely automatically be entered but you need to redo or paste over the url/link with your new post's address.

My working table on Nov 5th (I post every day what I created the day before)

Fear #2: Fear of saying the wrong thing. Deep down a fear of saying something I might regret. He certainly has a "family air" with yesterday´s fear as they are related.