The Art Muse

[katheye]

The Art Muse is becoming agitated, flitting like a firefly behind my breast. How much longer can she reasonably be expected to contain the inspirations of the past 6 months, the Alex Grey workshop, the weekend of Chicago music and graffitti, the art saturated days in Paris? Disgruntled, but obedient, she’s waited for me to manage the more mundane

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[seridia]

I got the creative bug last week. It took the form of candy cane raindeer. I had so much fun creating these little guys (and will likely make more soon). It was amazing and wonderful to allow myself to fall deeper and deeper into this creative process; understanding that I was partaking in the act of creation. I even wondered about my creation. Whether the raindeer (or as I call them, raindeer mans) I created received consciousness through my creative work, and if so, what they were thinking as their little eyes faced the ceiling and dried to their new candy cane bodies. Whether this consciousness came with the eyes, or the nose, or the smile on my face when I gave them "life

[katheye]

Back at ya! I'm glad you exist too and I'll hopefully be seeing you at Mike and Kat's Saturday night. I have photos for everyone! :D

[theoldone]

I've never even asked, in what media do you work?

[katheye]

Nice to have you as an official friend now. :D

Most recently I alternate between oil painting, collage and assemblage... tho for years I focused primarily on prismacolor pencil illustration. My subject matter is typically "visionary," as I feel my ultimate gift is imagination, and photography is hard to beat for reproducing something that already exists--and I certainly do a lot of that tho my technical skills leave much to be desired.

I reslish the thought of stimulating people to look at things in a new way which is the primary benefit of collage which allows for interesting juxtapositions, but my overarching intent is to add beauty to the world, create something to soothe and uplift the spirit during these troubled times.

I've posted some of my collages in the past, but I'll see if I have something interesting loaded in the laptop for my next post...

Thanks for asking. Tell me a little about your passions...

[theoldone]

Most of my creative energy goes to making clever instruments (electronic) that geophysicist use to map rock structures.

I've tried working in several media, pastels, watercolors, acrylics and a bit of sumi-e (I'll probably try to pick that up again soon.)

I have a forge that I have used in the past, and yearn to relight (there's something truly magical about taking something as unyielding as steel and shaping it (without burning the crap out of yourself).

I'm not as good with wood as I'd like to be, but do still have illusions of building a reflecting telescope out of an octagonal wooden tube.

I read when I can, and spend too much time on line.

An on-going project for many years has been my Goddess Collage/Book of Shadows (I believe that I've told you about that.)

That's a start!

[katheye]

A great start. To paraphrase a wise man, "the un-creative life is not worth living!"
I feel like I've only begun to scratch the surface of the creative work I'd like to do... my reading has descreased with the sense of urgency that has come with middle age that time is running out. We live in a time of such unique potential for the creative arts, I don't want to squander a minute of it even to do something I've loved as much as reading. Part of the rhythm of life I suppose, turning the flow of ideas inward around to flow inspiration out...

Thanks for sharing.