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Creative Every Day’s February challenge is to incorporate words into your creative endeavors.  This pastel sketch is actually my third attempt tonight to capture something that called out to me.  While I’ve definitely been creative these past couple of months doing activities that range from making jewelry to designing my own wire-bound journals, I haven’t touched my soft pastels in awhile and it shows. 

My earlier attempts tonight ended up having color selections that clashed so I decided to stay with a simple yellow-green-blue combination.  The flower stylized dragonfly wings is a design I sketched awhile back.  While I have always loved dragonflies, they seem to be reappearing quite frequently right now.  I even saw one yesterday on one of my walks.  As a creature of the wind, dragonflies symbolize the ability to change form, adapt to various situations, and emerge anew. 

When it comes to being creative every day, it’s a lifestyle that embraces all things creative from cooking up a great meal to share with family and friends to practicing the art of feng shui and re-arranging your room in a way that is more pleasing the eye.  Being creative everyday isn’t limited just to traditional forms of creativity from painting to creating music.  It’s about embracing each day with creative energy to sing along with your favorite song and maybe even dance a little jig.  So to inspire you to become more creative everyday, I’ve made this pastel sketch available to download in three different desktop sizes.  cheers!

Shot taken on January 1, 2009 @ Lettuce Lake Park (Tampa, FL)

Image Available for Free Download in the following Desktop Wallpaper sizes:

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Over five years ago, I designed and created my own version of magnetic poetry.  It took a full Sunday looking though the dictionary to select the seven hundred words that ended up being  printed and cut into individual words that very same day.

So now, I’m sharing both a 1600×1200 and 1024×768 desktop in honor of that day and this fabulous tutorial on Technical Advisory Service for Images [TASI] that features my photograph of Magnetic Poetry under the Creative Commons license.  The tutorial explains in great detail how to find images on Flickr.  It also provides links to some interesting third party Flickr search sites.  My favorite is Color Fields, which allows you to search simply by selecting a color of interest.  In addition, it featured some color selection tools that limit your search to certain search terms such as flowers, urban decay, and stock images.

Desktop Sizes available for download:1024×768 or 1600×1200

Shot captured Saturday night at a friend’s house with no post-photo Photoshop touch ups. Just goes to show that you can take decent photos at night if you’re willing to experiment with your camera settings to see what works.