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Artsy Musings & Interesting Oddities MEET THE ARTIST: Danita Stallard is the peculiar personality behind FlitterMouseArt's collection of snack-sized artwork and quirky comics. ​Her creativity is fuelled by copious amounts of Earl Grey Tea, a fascination with folklore, and the occasional infusion of pure silliness. She spends way too much time wandering the rugged forests of Northern Manitoba, and remains, as ever, a firm believer in the many uses of salt. Check out her art online at http://flittermouse.ca Keep scrolling to check out some of my favourite artsy adventures!

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Meet the artist!

Danita Stallard is the peculiar personality behind FlitterMouse Studio's collection of snack-sized paintings and quirky comics. As an intrepid adventurer and indiscriminate tree-hugger, Stallard finds her inspiration in the rugged forests of Northern Manitoba, Canada. Her creativity is fuelled by copious amounts of Earl Grey Tea, a fascination with folklore, and the occasional infusion of pure silliness. She remains, as ever, a firm believer in the many uses of salt.

Find me on the interwebs!

Website: flittermouse.ca

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The biggest compliment ever is when someone sees your creative work and says that they’re now inspired to go out and create something, too

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Today was a button-making day in the studio! I love hand-drawing my buttons. That way I know they're all totally unique.

I think "birb" is my favourite so far, but godzilla-baby's a close runner up!

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Artist Trading Card Club meets tonight! Our inspiration word is IMPACT ... there's lots of fun ways to play with this one. Are you making an ATC to swap tonight?

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It's Tuesday, so it's time for a new ATC Club prompt! What sort of FEAST are you going to create?

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I love winter, which I guess is a good thing since I live in northern Canada, where winter seems to make up 75% of our year. Even so, it's exciting when we start to feel that warm sunshine burning through the frost!

Today was an extra-sunny sort of day, and it got me thinking about the sunflowers that "volunteer" to grow in my yard. I've never planted a single sunflower, but my neighbours like to leave birdseed out, and the local squirrel is always stealing that birdseed. He tends to forget where he's buried his hoard over the course of our long winter, so I tend to find "surprise sunflowers" in places where sunflowers probably shouldn't grow. It always brings me a smile to see a bright yellow sunflower poking up between my columbines.

I wonder how many squirrel-planted sunflower seeds will sprout in the yard this year?

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I'm under the impression that I don't like orange. It's never my go-to flavour, and I rarely choose it out of a line up. In fact, if asked, I'd say that orange is my least favourite colour.

But then I remember sunsets. And creamsicles. Bonfires. That one toy my dog likes best. Monarch butterflies. Tiger lilies ...

And suddenly, orange is my favourite colour.

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I always feel like somebody's watching me ... (from between the pages of my favourite book, that is!!)

I think every artist gets the urge to paint expressive eyeballs sometimes. Why are we like this? The world may never know ... but I DO know that I love painting brightly-coloured eyes!

This set of bookmarks was originally painted on a wooden board, which had a weird texture on it. I had to do a lot of sanding and several layers of gesso to smoothen down the surface before I started painting. The prep work is never my favourite part of a project, but I'm always happier with an end project if I take the time to properly prepare my surface. I guess it's a necessary evil!

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FRECKLE

Every week, the ATC (Artist Trading Card Club) has a new inspiration word to get our creativity flowing. This week's word was "FRECKLE."

There are so many different ways to play with the word "freckle." I thought about freckling a night sky with stars, or using stipple-shading to do an entire card. I had too many ideas!!

When I have too many ideas, I tend to fall back on easy-art ... the kind of art I make all the time ... and before I knew it, an inkling goober had emerged once again!

Is it a particularly inspired art card? Nah. But I had fun making it, and that's what counts!

PS: Here's our weekly prompt list, in case you get inspired! You can find more info about my ATC Club (and how to do an art swap with me!!) here: http://flittermouse.ca/atc-club

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ATC Club's having a meeting tonight, yay! Can't wait to make some new tiny artwork. Here's our weekly prompt word -- "FRECKLE"

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Flin Flon's ATC Club uses weekly inspiration prompts to get our creativity flowing! Do you like creating art from a prompt, or do you prefer the wildcard approach? 🤔 Anyway, here's this week's prompt!

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I love drawing colouring books! My favourite page to add is the "colour the artist" page ... I always wonder what colour of hair you'll choose to give me!

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The indiscriminate tree-hugger strikes again!

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There's a snowfall warning in my area and winter has arrived, but I've still got little bottles of spring and autumn in my pockets ;)

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Did anyone else watch Fantasia as a kid? The dancing mushroom song was stuck in my head while I painted this one …

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Find out more: http://flittermouse.ca/atc-club