In the bustling streets of our everyday lives, an artist with a unique vision is transforming the mundane into the extraordinary in her tiny, desert community in Saudi Arabia. Imagine walking down your regular path and finding that the familiar old palm tree has sprouted feathers and a beak, turning into a flamboyant flamingo. Or picture a lamp post, not just shedding light, but also donning a top hat and monocle, becoming an elegant English gentleman right before your eyes.
Genevieve from CreatEVE Design lives in a compound called KAUST, in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, and found that with the demands of everyday life, kids’ schedules, and school pickups, she “wasn’t leaving the compound very often. The nearest city is over an hour away and there are only sand dunes in between. My community is incredibly beautiful, but I was looking at the exact same thing every day, and my inspiration for my artwork dwindled. So I challenged myself to find inspiration around me, and capture the beauty in the everyday.”
Scroll to the end to see the evolution of the series and the sketches from France as well.
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Dropped Ice cream cone in the desert heat
Each piece starts as a simple photograph, capturing ordinary scenes and objects. But with a change of perspective, these photographs are reimagined into playful, sometimes surreal artworks. A shade tent swirls into the iconic dress of Marilyn Monroe, and a decorative rock might just stretch and twist into a Triceratops.
“To help ease my creative block, I started this series with a 60-second time limit, so my initial sketches are rough, single line, and one color. A time limit prevents perfection paralysis
I’m sharing these today so other artists can see the imperfection in my warmup exercises because artists can be their own toughest critics. Seeing other’s imperfections can help you feel ok about your own.”
What makes these artworks so captivating is not just the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary, but also the invitation to view our everyday world through a lens of wonder and possibility.
“Once I began this series, I began to see new possibilities in everything. It was as if a blindfold had been lifted, and I could see the unimaginable. My creativity soared.”
This artist’s work is a celebration of imagination, a playful dance between reality and fantasy. It’s a journey into a world where anything is possible, and the ordinary becomes anything but.
“My hope with this series is firstly to create surprise and evoke a sense of fun. But I hope that with this change in perspective, that it invites you to see new possibilities and a little magic in the ordinary when life gets ‘lifey’” .
Genevieve is an Australian Artist, Illustrator, and Educator living in the Middle East and Europe. She teaches artists how to turn the Mundane into the Magical.
The Beacon Reimagined
All the roads are lined with palm trees
This one caught my eye
A random pole in a park, marking public utility access… yawn … until
It burst into a bee and flew away
Parking lot greenery
With a zebra hiding inside!
Decorative Rock
Triceratops
Bike racks?
Or bug?
Perfectly spaced Palm Trees….
Turned into a winning ilustration
Random banana leaf in my front garden
Turned into the perfect wave
Frangipani Trees in winter
reimagined into a deer
This caught my eye during my kids’ swimming lessons
Gargantuan Beetle
This photo is so boring!
Reimagined, it so much more fun.
Park Pergola…
Arachnid web
My parking spot while waiting to pick up the kids from school
Then the ballet began
The sleepy little harbor
snaps unicorn!
On my bike route – the same trip every morning
Now I see this guy!
Fallen Leaf – France
Becomes a Japanese fan
A little French river becomes….
a Whaley cute rock!
Red Trumpet flowers
Real Trumpet flowers
Wait? Another trumpet?
Nope, my pretties…
Buttered baguette in a bread bowl?
Or buttered bunny baguettes in a bread bowl.
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