I don't really consider myself an artistic person, sometimes I am hesitant to call myself creative. I am resourceful. I can take things such as paper, cloth, coloring books, toys, et cetera and find ways to make them interesting, but inspiration doesn't usually strike until I have these things not knowing what I can do with them. My Wizard of Oz quilt project was spawned when I found Wizard of Oz fabric and realized it could be thrown together to make a great quilt. The bags I made for my nieces were a simple accident. Card making last night with Kim was productive only because I had textured paper to play with and cut up- I had no plans or designs, and created a hodge podge of random shapes and colors. All of my more successful projects have originated and been executed by pure coincidence of material and effort. I think I find my greatest productivity under pressure, or when people around me are making good on their intended and planned projects. Give me a challenge and I can produce, but rare is the time when I am aware of coming up with an idea from nothing.
My rambling leads to this question; Art is a very broad range of perception of things, ideas, entities. Is my lack of original planning an art unto itself, or is it mimicry of art? I know that's a vague question.
Ultimately I'm feeling somewhat disgruntled about my lack of effort to produce things that don't just come together in some cosmic ease of artistry that was intentional on my part.
Wah, wah, wah...
ALSO- is there a way to drop pictures in the text so they don't always show up at the top? The picture is of a card I made last night with Kim after she drew a dog made out of hearts. I copied it by cutting out paper. It was cute-ish.
I love creating things by accident. When I was writing music on a regular basis, some of my best ideas were the result of an accident. Human history is the same (look at Penicillin for crying out loud!). I think that's perfectly normal.
ReplyDeleteI like to look for sources of inspiration and see where it takes me. It sort of gets the wheels turning and then I end up someplace completely different anyway.
All this is to say: keep doing your stuff yo! Plus, I'd like to see what you've done with your Wacom Tablet. I can't stop playing with mine!
About the picture thing: after you upload it, it always drops it at the top of your post for some reason, not where you cursor is at the time. No worries though, just copy that big block of text and paste it where you want it to go. Then go back and delete the first one (Or else it will show up twice). I like to preview before I delete the original code so that I won't mess anything up. :)
whew.
And have a good day cool cat!
Excellent!! Thank you very much, Mr. Berryhill.
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