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Dogs of war – or peace?⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to

Try this site that gives you a bit of control over world maps. It allows you to re-orientate the world map to specific countries (so you change the common perspective found in so many maps).

You have a few different map types to play with, too. Maybe you make a political statement? Or maybe you just make some art!

I clicked on the UK, and the resulting map reminded me of two big, friendly dogs saying hello to each other. so I loaded up SmoothDraw and did a tiny bit of doodling:

Dogs of war - or peace?
Dogs of war – or peace? flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Dogs of war, or dogs or peace? Who decides?

Dogs of war – or peace?⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to

Try this site that gives you a bit of control over world maps. It allows you to re-orientate the world map to specific countries (so you change the common perspective found in so many maps).

You have a few different map types to play with, too. Maybe you make a political statement? Or maybe you just make some art!

I clicked on the UK, and the resulting map reminded me of two big, friendly dogs saying hello to each other. so I loaded up SmoothDraw and did a tiny bit of doodling:

Dogs of war - or peace?
Dogs of war – or peace? flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Dogs of war, or dogs or peace? Who decides?

Castle in the Sky⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to:

Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”)

I found a doodle I had done of a castle

castle
castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter

Castle
Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:

Doodle of castle with 'bubbles' animation

And posted it.

Castle in the Sky⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to:

Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”)

I found a doodle I had done of a castle

castle
castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter

Castle
Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:

Doodle of castle with 'bubbles' animation

And posted it.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

Dragon
Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

Dragon
Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

Dragon
Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Starry Night⤴

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Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn

sunflower
sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

And ran it through a Lunapic Van Gogh filter

Van Gogh Sunflower
Van Gogh Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I went back to Lunapic and used the Starry filter

Starry Starry Sunflower
Starry Starry Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I thought I’d like to add some visuals, so I added  the Sparkles Effect

Some days I remix with others, and other days I riff off my own remixes. While I was doing all of this I was also listening to this

Peace cards⤴

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Postcards for peace

I love this postcard project – the decision to make a round of postcards – in this case prompted by our CLMOOC Postcards for Peace popup; the choice of design – this time blue and yellow with sunflowers for Ukraine; the scrolling through the Google Sheet to find names and addresses – I love this part as I get to imagine what all the different places are like, and to look them up on a Google Map as I write each one.

And then there’s the thrill as cards pop though my letter box – the serendipity of finding one from Kevin on the mat as I was addressing this batch.

Peace card

Small things give me hope, and help me find peace.

Time to Relax⤴

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This Christmas I’ve had a holiday. For (most of) the last three weeks I’ve not worried about work, or agonised about what I should be reading and writing. And as I relaxed, I realised that this is the first Xmas that I can remember for at least 20 years that I’ve not had a mountain of academic work hanging over me: no piles of essays to mark; no outstanding PhD thesis to guilt trip me.

This meant that I’ve been able to really relax and take a break. I’ve written lists of things I wanted to do, rather than things I thought I ought to do, and I’ve crossed each one off with a sense of joy, rather than the usual relief. I have:

  • Spent time doing the CLMOOC Daily Doodles
  • Caught up with some old DS106 Daily Creates
  • Knitted myself a cardigan (and started planning my next one)
  • Enjoyed tidying, cooking, cleaning
  • Read novels, watched trashy TV, tuned my ukes again
  • Ignored emails and Teams

And overall I have just relaxed. Tomorrow I go back to work. Well, all good things come to an end.