Friday Flowers have not disappeared, nor have I. However, I have been very busy in the creative department. I even took a week off from work so I could devote my full attention to expanding and refining my use of creative tools. I am learning a new web site management program and in the process of doing that I needed to finish another Sherree Tale so I would have something to post. But to finish the Tale I had to illustrate it, and to illustrate it I had to work around my deadly fear of spiders (since the new tale is called "The Spiders"). I know a lot of people are afraid of spiders, but my fear is so severe that I will leave a house rather than share space with one...my fear is so great that I cannot even kill them...it is so paralyzing that I certainly cannot draw spiders! That created quite a pickle for me. So I changed my focus and decided to draw spider webs instead. After all, the tale is about two spiders who create unusual webs. The irony is I was unable to draw creative webs even though I could create spiders who could create creative webs. So I did what anyone in 2011 would do; I Googled webs. That was a good start, but they were still pictures of regular spider webs. So I Googled other web-like things and hit the jackpot. The problem was these were not my photos, but they did give me an idea of how to make web-like pictures.
What has any of this got to do with Friday Flowers? Well, the flower project started because I wanted to share my gardens with people in the hopes they would receive as much joy from them as I do. I didn't know how to do that until I got an iPhone that takes really good pictures and is always in my pocket when I am working in the garden. I started taking pictures, writing little captions and emailing them to my friends and colleagues. I had to learn a bunch of new skills in order to do this (like manipulating photos, posting in a blog, setting up a mailing list, etc).
And what does any of the above have to do with illustrating spider webs? Everything! With my trusty iPhone, I started taking close up pictures of anything around my house or gardens that looked remotely web-like. I then uploaded those to my computer and messed around with the color, shape, tone, etc. until I had pictures that any creative, web weaving, spider would be proud of. I even made 8x10 glossies of the morphed photos and started framing them.
Anyway, that's why I've missed a couple of weeks of Friday Flowers...I've been growing!
Oh, this week's flower is a Rain Lily. They pop up when it's warm and raining. Me too.
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