Blast from the past: Lifebook 2014, the first 10 weeks
Blast from the past: A change year starting with Lifebook 2014: the first 10 weeks
Another blast from the past. A compilation of old blog posts. For me a way of cleaning up the number of blog post and for you a compiled view in my old work.
2014: The word I used that year was CHANGE: accepting changes and new things.
At the end of 2013, I lost a job, I had for almost 34 years due to a reorganisation. Unlucky me and 11 other colleagues got fired. So apart from the actual change, that year was a a good year to work on changing myself and exploring new things.
By now I have stopped looking for a job and am being trained to be a creative coach and am totally commited to making art and hopefully inspire all of you to do the same.
Because my website quote is:
To Silence your head
Use your hands and
CREATE
Week 1 of Lifebook 2014: Warm-up page and Inner Artist Guardian
The warm-up page is something Tamara always starts with in a new year of lifebook. I mde layers of neocolor II , some collaged hearts and acrylic paint, a bit of stamping and markers for my warm-up page.
For the painting of our Inner Artist Guardian I used neocolor II, acrylic paint, collage and markers. With the word change I had to think about butterflies and their life cycle through metamorfasis. Had great fun with this lesson and was a little surprised about the colors I used. That orangy yellow is not something I use much, but I love the result. So no matter what everybody else thinks about, I am happy. So my guardian really helped this time to silence my inner artist critic.
![lifebook warmup 2014 lifebook warmup 2014](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wk1warm-up-224x300.jpg)
![lifebook 2014 guardian angel guardian angel](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wk1-223x300.jpg)
Week 2: Creative Changer
This week we had a small lesson by Micki Wilde. A page where she used grey as a background with a happy affirmation for this year. I did not have grey paint and mixed my own, which turned out a little to dark for my liking, luckely the neon colors brighten the page up.
![SONY DSC SONY DSC](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk2-227x300.jpg)
Week 3 lesson by Carla Sonheim
This was a lesson with oneliners, blobanimals, flowers from scraps, pocket pages to hold the cards and found poems. A lot of playfull things indeed.
I had a lot of trouble with the oneliners, strange animals, crooked flowerpots, childlike houses. The blobanimals and flowers with scraps are fun. Also made a page with two pockets to hold the cards and decorated the pockets with the found poems and two small cards with scrap flowers.
![wk3 (1) wk3 (1)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk3-1-300x275.jpg)
![wk3 (3) wk3 (3)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk3-3-1024x763.jpg)
Week 4 lesson by Kelly Hoernig:
The word CHANGE keeps popping up in the lifebook lessons and also the symbol, a butterfly.
The colors I used were the same as in the first week. I really likes the colors although they are not really my favorite colors. But with the word change comes a change in colors
My three things on the page are a dictionary page (words connected to my work), musical score (singing in a popchoir) and a piece of a map (for all the trips and holidays). Added a flower and stenciled with some gesso and this is the finished page:
![SONY DSC SONY DSC](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk4-224x300.jpg)
Week 5 lesson by Marieke Blokland:
![wk5 wk5](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk5-300x223.jpg)
Week 6 by Tamara Laporte:
Week 6 was all about playing with spray inks. I used dylusions which I love. The colors are beautiful and love the effects you can get with them.
There was a warmup page with a lot of negative space. I can't say I am really happy with how my pages turned out, but I show them anyway. I made two pages where I tried this.
![wk6 a wk6 a](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk6-a-229x300.jpg)
![wk6 b wk6 b](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk6-b.jpg)
The main lesson was a bigger folded page and although the front said me, the face inside does not resemble ME.
![wk6 c wk6 c](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk6-c-208x300.jpg)
![wk6 d wk6 d](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk6-d-1024x730.jpg)
Week 7 by Jane Davenport:
This weeks lesson was a positive pop-up page. The outside is a lot of collage with napkins and more and inside is more watercolor.
![wk7 wk7](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wk7-222x300.jpg)
![wk7b wk7b](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wk7b-1024x576.jpg)
Week 8 by Alena Hennessey:
This is my colorfull page for the lesson of week 8: Joy of intention
![wk10 wk10](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk10-219x300.jpg)
Week 10 by Tamara Laporte:
This lesson was all about painting over collage and your positive life connections
I started with the collage and then went totally loose with gesso, neocolor II, gelato's, pastel, paint, stamps, and ... Oh I really dont know what anymore. Since I totally went my own way and it didn't look anything like the lesson from Tamara, I will show some in process pictures.
So here are some pictures from the start, in between and the end.
![wk8 (1) wk8 (1)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk8-1-224x300.jpg)
![wk8 (2) wk8 (2)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk8-2-228x300.jpg)
![wk8 (3) wk8 (3)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wk8-3-225x300.jpg)
These where the first 10 weeks of Lifebook 2014. There was no lesson in week 9.