creativityUNLEASHED by traci bautista

snapshots & art journaling at CHA

CHA is well under way and I've been painting at the iLoveToCreate booth and meeting up with my artsy friends and roaming the show floor. I love seeing everyone at the show...old friends, new friends, great products and fun demos.

Follow me throughout the next three days on the show floor as I do fun collaborations with my artsy friends and impromptu mini demos creating in my art journal at a few of my FAVE product booths. And if you're not at CHA, follow my twitter for the latest updates and photos of where I'm demoing on the show floor. come visit me at the following booths...

Monday, January 25

Wacom with Rhonna Farrer~10:00am

Hambly Studios~11:00am

Buzz and Bloom~12:00pm

Copic Marker~1pm

Objects & Elements with Susan Lenart Kazmer~2:00pm

CNT Publishing

also I'll be visiting my friends on the show floor...

sonya nimri, vickie howell, claudine hellmuth, cathy kano murrillo,

christine adolph and alisa burke

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TUESDAY, JAN 26

iLoveToCreate~ 9:00am-12:00pm~ come paint & collage with me!

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here are a few photos from the past two days.

 

 

digital kit giveaway winners...

one of my FAVE places for inspiration...a BEAUTIFUL peaceful morning at lanikai beach in kailua, HI

Thanks for sharing your inspirations!!

...and the winners of the digitial kits are...

 

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***If your comment is listed here, please send me your email and I will send you a FREE digital collage kit. 

#8  - I'm most inspired by stenciled graffiti (I adore Banksy), other types of unusual graffiti (like those that use fabric, or re-purposed stickers), debris I find on the streets, everything robot-related, and other things... too many to list here. Posted by: Mina

#11 - God, music, nature - Posted by: Lisa Kastello

#12 - attention to detail - if you pay attention, inspiration is everywhere! Posted by: juliet

#15 - Definitely color, simple moments in life can spark amazing creativity, being around other positive and inspiring people, my kids, and about 100 million other Heck, creativity in itself can inspire me. One thing leads to another.....Posted by:Jodi

#17 Color, Passion, Design - Posted by: Carol B.

#21 - Wreck This Journal Posted by: Spooky 

#27 - guiding spirits, amazon forest, indigenous feelings  - Posted by: Juanita

#30 - nature, material, color. -Posted by: peggy mcdevitt

#42 -I use my inspiration for poetry, food and playing in God's kingdom. Posted by: Nury Antomarchy

#45 - Posted by: Sonya Flores

what INSPIRES you?

photo courtesy of Nani

i am inspired by everything and

everyone that enters my path.

i find art in everything

and everything finds its way into my art.

~an excerpt from my book Collage Unleashed

There are so many things that inspire my artwork…a walk on the beach, flipping through a fashion magazine, making art with kids, a thought, an idea, a word, a photograph. I carry my digital and video camera everywhere. I take inspiration photos of interesting shapes, signs, art, flowers, etc. These photos make their way in my art through doodles, altered backgrounds and sketchbooks. I love old craft books from the 60’s and 70’s, I revamped techniques based on traditional macramé and latch hooking in the bindings of my journals. Fashion and magazines are a great reference for photography, color and images for the faces that I draw.  Typography is another one of my loves. I study letterforms and ad layouts for interesting ways to incorporate type and freestyle lettering in my art. I used to teach K-12 art and found that working with kids inspires creative freedom when creating artwork.

watch this: one of my all time FAVE artists

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what inspires you?

leave a comment with 3 words or a link to a post on your blog/twitter/flickr

i will be giving away a FREE digital collage art kit to 10 people

--------------UPDATE: JAN 15, 2010 - comments closed--------------

thanks for sharing YOUR inspirations!!

 

winter {art} SALE

Just listed in my online boutique

NEW handmade original art journals, FINE ART prints & mixed media paintings...

Valentine's day is coming up...these would make great gifts!

the garden GODDESS art journal 

BALI TEMPLE graffiti ART journal

graffiti ART QUILT journal

 

DREAM art journal

stitched HEART art journal

i HEART art journal

collage kits & handmade art journals in my ETSY shop

introducing TULIP FASHION graffiti...

CHA at Anaheim Convention Center is right around the corner and I'm furiously getting ready for this big week of ART, crafty meetings, product demos and launches. If you love anything related to arts & crafts come out to the CHA Craft Super Show, I will be demoing at the iLoveToCreate booth. I'm looking forward to seeing my artsy & crafty friends, making FASHION graffiti and I have a FABULOUS project planned for the show floor. So follow my blog, twitter or Facebook to find out the latest details.

Tulip Fashion Graffiti is AWESOME, super RAD...it's DOPE digity and available at Michaels Art & Craft stores in the US and online at iLoveToCreate.com! I am excited to help launch the latest line of fabric paints and tools from iLoveToCreate! Check out my video previewing the new products and showing my painting techniques!