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Creative Wednesday... how have you been creative this week?

Excellent crafting? Tried some new make up? Trained someone at work? Whatever you've done we wanna hear!

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I'm a digital artist and I'm starting to work on this huge drawing that I have planned! 😃 The creature at the focus of the drawing was definitely not inspired by a Korok!

Update: some progress!
Update 2 (last one!): more ice antlers rendering
- Wow mate, that's a really engaging image. I like things that are different, and that's really striking and there's great colours.
  
  Thank you so much! 😃 I keep adding things to the sketch layers so this one is gonna take a while! Working with a resolution of 2940 x 2205!
- Oh it’s adorable! Please post when you’re done, I’d love to see the finished project!
  
  Thank you so much!! And will do! 😃
- Ooh I don't know what a Korok is, but I wanna be friends with this little leaf :) Very cool!
  
  Thank you! It's a friendly little familiar spirit being conjured up in a couldron 😃
  Koroks themselves are adorable too!
- It’s so cute! I am always fascinated with the artists that work digitally. I tried it a little, but I find it quite difficult and not natural for me at all. It involves too much of the brain. I rather throw paint on the canvas and let my hands guide me. How many hours do you put into a finished drawing?
  
  Thank you!
  I don't keep track of how many hours I put into a finished drawing and it really depends! I typically only draw when I'm in the mood for it. This one which I did for my friend's birthday took me about 2 months on and off 😅 Progress pictures for this drawing are here!

I'm really pleased with how my stairway decorating turned out! It's dusky pink with a navy wallpaper wall and it looks great. I didn't paint it cos I don't have those skills.
I also helped a client in a really creative way... I really problem solved and helped them. I'm so proud of myself
- Aw congrats! Dusky pink with a navy wallpaper sounds like it'd really compliment well!
  
  Yep I don't have an eye for it so I'm really proud of myself
- Can you share a pic? I'd love to see!
  
  I'll message it now!

Well, my everyday creative outlet is cooking. Today I just summed up ingredients to make some Chinese style noodles with some veggies, Spanish jamón, sesame paste, lots of sauces and spices. My husband was thrilled. I had a migraine, so for me it was more just stopping the hunger.
But cooking is the easiest way for me to be creative in any state I am in. To paint, sew or other things, I need a good rested body and good mood.
- Nice work! I'm not a good cook so I'm always envious of other people's culinary skills. What's your favourite thing to cook?
  
  I don’t have a favourite, but it is important to me to try out new things and invent and tweak recipes. It is all about keeping it new and interesting. Right now I am in a phase of learning to cook authentic Chinese (some of the dishes, the Chinese gastronomy is impossible to learn completely), we like to eat it and I want to know how to do it. I am even watching Chinese cooks without English translation and hope to guess what the ingredients are. 😂Or at least techniques.
  I like to bake sourdough bread, we never buy bread anymore. Unless I am sick and cannot be bothered to do it. I like to bake cakes, but we don’t eat sweets generally, so it is not very often. I did fancy cakes in the past too, with fondant flowers and all that. Now I focus more on taste.
  My soups are pretty awesome. We do eat a lot of soups, so I do get to experiment.
  We do like to eat and I do like to feed people. Gatherings with friends always mean a lot of food. I am famous for offering too much food. But I always say that it is good to have leftovers, so you are set for a few days. I also give away food to the guests if they want. If we are invited to someone’s house, I always bring something baked.
  I am lucky to have found my husband that loves eating more than I do(and I love cooking more than he does). It is such a treat to see him enjoy my food. If we stay apart a few days or weeks, I usually don’t bother to cook too much. I make a big pot of soup, some stew or something, and eat a whole week of those and slightly tweak the seasonings or pairings so that it does not get boring.
  That was a long story…I can talk about food for hours.

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