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The Virtual Crafting Challenge for August was to take pictures of things that inspire you. So here is the second in a series of photos that I have taken, of things that inspire me.
Peeling Paint
I took this picture at a heritage railway. The picture is of a piece of fence post, where the weather has aged the paint and made it peel. This inspires me, firstly for the amount of different colours in the cracks and on what is left of the paint, but also the nice lichen growing on there. A great shot for playing with colours when I’m painting sometime.
What inspires you?
Do check out this month’s The Virtual Crafting Challenge for August and see what you can find in the world around you, that will inspire you, for your creative process.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 
I’m also inspired by texture and have a stash of actual items such as bark, wood, moss, stones, fabric, paper etc as well as many photos. One day I’ll get organized so that I can find all these things whenever I need them. Hard to be inspired when the object or photo has vanished into the mire.
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I could see me collecting actual items…but lack of storage space makes that impossible. I plan to print these photos and put them in an album, at least they will be in one place then
That’s the only problem with digital photos, you take so many and they so rarely get printed out. I was thinking of printing a few and putting them on a board in the room where I paint, then they would ‘call’ to me and get me painting 
Best wishes
Billie