The Creative Process - collaboration 2

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Been a bad couple of days (after pretending to be 'normal' on Saturday) so my cunning plan to post each sun/mon has fallen at the first fence :(
No idea how these will post from the app, so I'll edit tomorrow. But I was determined to post before Monday becomes Tuesday!

@JimForADay over at iPA, you may recall, sent me a photo to play with. This post is a record of some of the stages I went through and my two favourite images after all the play/sketching/experimenting...what DOES one call the process?

I'll add the apps etc in more detail tomorrow when I can split the gallery up...& if I can recall them ;)

Day 7/30 - #iPhoneArt #30daysofcreativity

Day 6/30 #iphoneArt #30daysofcreativity

An unexpected gift.

Day 5/30 - #30daysofcreativity #iPhoneArt

The secret

I resized this with Paintbook - not sure what effect that will have on the quality of the image though...?

Day 4/30 #iphoneArt #30daysofcreativity

Summer nights

I'm wondering if I can keep a red theme going for 30 days...or maybe a primary colour for 10 days...we'll see on day 11 ;)

Day 3/30 #iphoneArt #30daysofcreativity

Another piece created from the garden photos taken with procamera.

Would you argue with this cat @michaelNobbs ? Managing time to be creative.

I have very little energy...or spoons as we fatigue fighters will often refer to it and I struggle to cope with it. I was lucky enough to do a 16 day pain management programme at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery some time ago and one of the main mantras there is 'Targeting & Pacing'

But I suck at pacing. Oh I can set targets...but pace myself? Just over 3 years with this illness and I'm still not dealing with it very well... A talented tweep Matthew Watkins pointed me in the direction of Michael Nobbs another talented chap who's being creative despite having ME/CFS.

Michael's site is jam packed with useful tips for those of us short on energy, but it's also useful for those who are short on time. There's a free email micro-mag every 2 weeks to try to keep you on track and usually a podcast too. Well worth signing up for... (go on, click the link and leave me...)

So Sand the point of this post is...? Well, Michael suggests splitting tasks into 20 minute chunks...kind of. You need to click on his name above to read the post I'm referring to. So I regularly set a timer on my pc or whatever for 20 -30 minutes, but when it goes off I have a habit of ignoring it... Not good eh? A quick surf around and I ordered this,

Now then, would you ignore this cat? It has a very loud hard to ignore tick and jangles jumpingly when the times up. Alas it doesn't KEEP ringing which would be best for me, (you know, put it out of reach so it doesn't stop till you stop and get up to deal with it) but it is definitely harder to ignore than the feeble thing I have on my laptop.

Now of course I just need to remember to use it...properly.