Creative Jumpstart - Marmalade Moon

Kate England over at Marmalade Moon is delivering a free four week course via email about jump starting creativity.
In her own words;

"To make it easy to succeed, the course will be delivered to you in 8 tiny, to-the-point, practical and bite-sized chunks, so that it’s really easy for you to follow through and be successful. Creative Jumpstart is a free four week course, delivered to your inbox on Mondays and Fridays."

Although its already started, if you join now Kate will send you the tasks you've missed so far.
Here's the link for more info -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/creative-jumpstart-course/

And to jump right in and join, (it's all free remember) click here -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/club/

The photo above is of my notebook.
Yes, it's my iPad...but although I do have a sketchbook, my hands aren't often up to the task of using it. So my iPad and iPhone are my creative lifeline.
You'll need a notebook/sketchbook for the course. So dig one out if you don't already use one.
Or if your like me, create an album ready for your doodles and ideas, on the touch pad device of your choice ;)
Let me know if you join, I'd love to see what you create and I'm sure Kate will too.

The search for Peace - mandala #iPhoneArt

I think this mandala began as the doodle I did for @karinSF
Kaleidoscope X and then photo studio then addlib then back through Photo Studio a few times. The border was added with Filterstorm when I was looking to see how big the image was. Seems Addlib only produces small resolution images too.

Finally had a medic lay hands on me for the first time since my op. I made an appointment to see my GP to check my scars/wounds. (What do you call them at this in between stage when the outside is more or less healed but the inside isn't?) Everything seems as expected, she believes it'll be after Christmas before I start to feel the real benefits of being gallbladder free and made a lot of sense. So although I didn't think I was worried about the added pain etc I must have been, because I feel better for having seen her.
Fibromyalgia - never a dull moment.
And it's a really stupid name for it. Even chronic pain syndrome would be better. It needs the word 'neuro' in there somewhere. Just saying... ;)

The excitement of a trip out of the house left me exhausted, so I haven't dipped my toes in the twitter water today. My apologies.

Re-learning - digital montage with apps

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One of the artists at iPA is astonishingly good at creating the most wonderful montages on his phone. Intimidatingly good actually...it's a whole new way of working and I've struggled with it because I've been trying to approach it using old skills. Skills from the real world and my folders of collected images...I'm still struggling greatly with it but at least I've started to play and achieve some almost pleasing results...so here are the first to see the light of day. Feedback (if not too harsh) is as always appreciated ;)

And pop over to iPA to marvel at Clint Cline's (clix2020) creations.

What do you see?

A friend at iPA sent me a photo to play with after reading my bio there...and some other discussions about other artists work, he sees something quite specific waiting to be brought out of the photo and I'm not sure I see the same thing. It will be interesting to see what we individually create from it.
As Appit has finished and the voting begins (why not pop over and vote? There's such wide variety of interpretations to feast your eyes on ;) I've begun to play with Jim's photo.
This is just the first exploration...& the title is a sincere query -
What do YOU see in there?