The Freedom to Create

Have you had your Creative Juice today? Once you take a drink of it there is no stopping the creative rush you feel. "Mudslinger" is a video which I spent the day on yesterday. It began with the song in my head: James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim. I grew up with this song and it's always carried a tune in my heart. While promoting is key- I'm promoting our homestead with art. By day I'm a homesteader raising animals, tending the garden. By the light of the moon in the early morning hours I'm an artist. Painting animals and garden fruits, creating characters and writing about muddy boots. I've created my mudslinger and the horse he rode in on. Our cast for this movie have been rehearsing for 6 years. Molly and Flake (our senior does) and all their kids. Lacy and Scout our two horses. Our numerous chickens auditioned but only Petey won the part. I'm not sure if he knows he's a rooster because he's such a "ham". I'v...

I thought I would take some time to learn animation and this is what I came up with. This is a little short of a bunny doing his thing. It took all day long and still not quite right but I was exhausted to go any further. A while back I had searched for alternative editing programs and found Sqirlz Morph . It had been sitting in my computer downloads for sometime as I had been busy with other things and qu ite frankly, wasn't ready to learn any new technical material. Yesterday, while my daughter Jaime was at a birthday party, I opened up the program and gave it a go. I like the hands on and dive in approach rather than read tutorials. That's probably why it took me all day.  I used two illustrations that were almost identical. Then I  picked control points in each of the illustrations. It was difficult at first to find the relationship between each illustration and their corresponding control points but with a little maneuvering I began to see it. Now it was starting to...