Pink Intrigue: 2017 Update

Happy New Year, belated still, but Happy New Year none the less. We have been gone for a while, but with good reason. Many changes have taken place in the Pink Intrigue camp, and we will be back mid 2017 with some awesome new stuff for the Pink Intrigue brand. We won't say too much here, but we do want you to know that just because we are not posting, does not mean that we are not creating. We learned a whole multitude of things in 2016, and in 2017 we plan on taking things to the next level. But we really don't want to talk too much, we just wanted to check in and let you know that we are here. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, follow our Pink Intrigue lifestyle page on Instagram. Enjoy the revamp! Remember, live life creatively!

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Updates and RedBubble

One of our mixed media prints: Love Boldly 

Hey creative souls! Hope you are all doing well. I have a few updates for you guys. Firstly, we have a new website in the works. We are tres excited about it so, drop your e mail in the comments if you want to be notified when the new site is up.

How I Write 10,000 Words in a Single Day

Work, work, work, work

Hey, since this blog is about creativity, we are captivated by it, we live by it, it is our bread and butter. Why not write a blog post about how to write 10,000 words a day? I started writing 10,000 words a day a couple of years ago. Then I stopped, I just became victim to my own limiting beliefs, I basically started to think I was doing too much.

Observe

Hey guys it's been a while, I did not manage to complete the 30-day colour Focus challenge. Due to various factors that I will not go into right now. I'm currently dictating this post instead of hand typing, due to a hand injury  I acquired by no fault of my own.

Colour Focus Mixed Media Art Challenge: Day 5 + Shakespeare Quote

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” 
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shout into the void

Today's mixed media piece is a self portrait, taken with a Canon 550d camera. We printed the portrait out and added paint effects, we then scanned it. We created this piece in the midst of writing a very heartfelt poem about falling in love, the dark side of love, that side of love that leaves you breathless. Feeling vulnerable, feeling like the world as you know it is over. That side of love that leaves you feeling lost in an unknown world, maybe its not love, maybe its obsession, infatuation, need, rather than want. Greed, rather than generosity, maybe its just another one of those feelings, unfathomable.  Consumed.

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Colour Focus Mixed Media Challenge Day 4 + Wisdom Kudowor - Ghanaian Visual Artist

We form lines, lines represent invisible words, expression through visual creation. Blue, black white. #createdaily 

"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

Colour Focus Mixed Media Art Challenge: Day 3

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Today is day 3 of our colour focus mixed media art challenge. If you are new to the blog and you don't know what the colour focus challenge is all about, head on over here >>>>>> mixed media art

Colour Focus Mixed Media Art Challenge: Day 2

Colour focus challenge: #createdaily

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” 

Colour Focus Challenge: Day 1

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web"  - Pablo Picasso. 

Welcome to day 1 of our first challenge of 2016, our colour focus challenge will focus on creating mixed media pieces using limited colour palettes.

New Year, New Challenges

New Year, New Selfies

“For last year's words belong to last year's language 
And next year's words await another voice.” 
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

London Street Walk Photos: Set 1

Capturing with a Praktica  BX20 film camera

I have recently been taking my 6 year old son on photo walks around London. He relishes the experience and has started taking his own pictures using a basic point and shoot camera, the Panasonic Lumix DC Vario.

Day 30: Mixed Media Art Challenge + Inspirational Art Quote- WE DID IT!!!!

perfect passion 

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.

Day 29: Mixed Media Art Challenge +Michael Jackson Quote

I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal 
dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.” 
― Michael Jackson

The above is one of my favourite poems/quotes from the beautifully crafted art and poetry book, Dancing The Dream by Michael Jackson.

Day 28: Mixed Media Art Challenge

Yay! Day 28 of our mixed media art challenge. Check out the really useful mixed media technique video above. Its very helpful, especially if you are just starting out creating mixed media pieces. Are you interested in art journaling?

Day 27: Mixed Media Art Journaling Challenge

"Art literally saved my life, it resussicated me when I was feeling lifeless". Abena, Pink Intrigue 

It is day 27 and yes, I wrote the above quote. Art did literally save my life, when I say art I don't just mean painting and creating visuals. I mean writing poetry, taking photographs, colouring in, expressing myself creatively.

Day 26: Mixed Media Art Challenge

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”
— Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

Creating daily 

Day 26 of this fabulous art challenge, wooohooooo! Creating daily is bliss! Do you ever count your blessings? Are you creative soul reading this from your office job?

Day 25: Mixed Media Art Challenge

“Art is the meeting ground of the world inside and the world outside.” Elinor Ulman

Art is everywhere


Welcome to day 25 of this 30 day mixed media art challenge! We are nearly there, so many colourful, bold vibrant pieces, we are chuffed! We are currently doing a 52 week art journaling challenge over on our healthy living and creative expression YouTube channel, the theme for week 6 is "Throw your pain into art."

Day 24: Mixed Media Art Challenge

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso


Welcome to day 24 of our mixed media art challenge, we love the above quote from Pablo Picasso. It resonates with us because we are currently doing a 52 week art journaling challenge. We recently discovered the amazing benefits of art journaling . You should try it too! Check out some cool art journaling videos below (after the mixed media art piece) Don't forget to comment below and let us know what you think of the pieces so far!

Day 23 Mixed Media Art Challenge

“By descending down into the depths of the soul, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 23 of our mixed media art challenge and its going swimmingly! We are literally pouring emotions into these pieces, and its extremely therapeutic. Art is therapy! Give it a try!

Day 22 Mixed Media Art Challenge

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. – Susanne Langer

It's day 22 of our mixed media art challenge, every day has been a blessing so far, we are having a ball. Creating something unique and vibrant every single day of the week is so therapeutic and so beautiful.