February 24, 2019
I was in a bit of a funk, not clear about what I was doing creatively. I think most artists go there at least some of the time. When I started this blog, I thought I'd be very consistent, creating a large scale painting each day and posting it, writing about my process or the image each evening.
Life doesn't turn out the way you expect. I know that. Yet it still comes as a surprise just about every time!
I simply haven't had enough time to get into the studio as consistently as I'd like to, so those large paintings haven't happened - yet. Instead, I've been experimenting my visual journal and accepting that the drawing I'm doing as demos in class count as well for my self-challenge. On this particular day, I wanted to offer encouragement to a friend whom I saw as needing creative encouragement, so I put together a book of quotes on creativity and started illustrating it. Before I was even half way through, I realized it wasn't for him - it was for me! I keep picking up the book and dipping in to read the quotes at the start of the day. It never hurts to get a bit of inspiration from someone else's wisdom.
Below I've attached several of the pages and will attach others in tomorrow's and the next day's posts to provide you with a bit of affirmation for your creative journey if you need it too!
(By the way, if you're interested in spending 3 hours a day for a week playing in your visual journal, I'll be teaching just such a class at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, June 17-21, 1:30 - 4:30 daily, Monday - Friday. It isn't on their website yet, so if you're interested, you can contact me to ask me to tell you when it is, or take a look in May and sign up then.)
 |
| #53 "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe |
 |
| #54 "The artist must train not only her eye, but also her soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky (I might have changed pronouns here just a bit!) |
 |
| #55 "One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well." ~Vincent VanGogh ~image by Chihuly |
 |
| #56 "an artist is an explorer" ~Henri Matisse |
 |
| #57 "The artist produces for the Liberation of her soul. It is her nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill." ~Author Unknown (I may have changed these pronouns too!) |
 |
| #58 "Color is the place where our Brains and the Universe meet." ~Paul Klee |
No comments:
Post a Comment