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Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five
I often talk about the tidal quality of creativity.
There are times when the ideas and energy to dive into their exploration is abundant.
Other times we feel beached and deserted with all that wants to be made, written and invented all the way over there on the horizon.
Following this analogy, I’m welcoming the inspiration back after a long spell of nothing but metaphorical driftwood and dry seashells to play with.
Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five:
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Brand new flip thru + 2 exciting secret projects to be revealed this weekend! Are you signed up?
It seems like forever since I last dropped by with a studio musings newsletter, so this weekend I’m relaunching with some exciting news!!
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In July 2020 I began this enormous sketchbook, with a new double page spread every week. I posted a few flip throughs in the first year, and although the project is still merrily trotting along at a spread a week, I fell out of the habit of posting updates.
Today I set myself the task to root about behind the metaphorical sofa in my mind and show you some of what’s been going on in my world of art making. Beginning with a flip through of the enormous sketchbook.
This brings us to page 73, although in real time I’ve already clocked up >100 pages, so I’ve more to show you yet. *Watch this space!*
On top of this, it’s been a reeeallly long time since I posted a studio musings newsletter, apologies for radio silence, this is on the list to be revived in the next few days!
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How many ways can one simple patterns look so many kinds of different in different media, in contrast and colors, in scale and size?
A pattern is defined as the repeated or regular way in which something is done.
An arrangement of lines or shapes,
a design in which the same shape is repeated
at regular internals over a surface.
A pattern is an arrangement of form,
of natural or chance configurations,
a regularity in the world,
in human made design
or in abstract ideas.
Our psyches are plumbed in such a way to seek out and construct patterns.
We organise and categorise our ways into behavior patterns.
Patterns are as much about the arrangement of the component parts as they are the parts – the shape of the space in between.
I was quite entranced by these thoughts on holiday recently.
I had this little sketchbook and just a few colors. As I noticed the repeating patterns around me I began to play, when I got home I continued to fill up this little book with more variations.
I explored a similar idea before, but now I want to carry it on further – with simpler forms – maybe a circle or a square – maybe in just one color – just to see what’s possible.
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Who are we and what are we doing here? The questions whose ideas of answers are held together with the phrase “In other words.”
The art we surround ourselves with, the music we listen to, the stories that provide our diversions: these make up the food that sustains our own creative bug.
From stitching beads onto painted fabric and dyed papers – collaging these into books and onto objects, I get proper giddy excited thinking about new combinations of media.
Right now I’ve got a yearning to add more elements into the art I’m involved in making. More aspects, more facets.
A few years ago I made an installation with a crazy big drawing on a roll of paper that was suspended from wall to floor like a waterfall.
The drawing was made from the transcript of a sound collage which played along with an animation, projected on the wall behind. Yes. It was a lot going on!
You can see the video element of the piece called “In Other Words” here
I want to make something big and exciting & I’d love you to join in!
I’ll tell you more about my thoughts in this month’s newsletter {which goes out tomorrow}
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“The thoughts we choose to think
are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” – Louse Hay
2018’s been a soupy sort of year, it feels like all the days and weeks swirled up together, undefined and drifty. It’s fun to go back and look at these memories I caught as they floated by. It feels like a reset: Ready to begin again.
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
– Lao Tzu
Inspired by……………….
Ali Brown
Hali Karla
Michele Theberge
Following the White Rabbit
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso
listening to……………..
“Start Where You Are” – Pema Chödrön
“The Butterfly Effect” – Jon Ronson
“What is the Bible…” – Rob Bell
Reply All Podcast
listening to……………..
“What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?”
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― Steven Pressfield, “The War of Art”
listening to……………..
listening to……………..
“Your life is your life.
Know it while you have it.
You are marvellous.
The gods wait to delight in you”
― Charles Bukowski
listening to……………..
“The thoughts we choose to think
are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”
― Louise Hay
listening to……………..
“Do the Work” – Steven Pressfield
“The Untethered Soul” – Michael A Singer
Peak Human Podcast
The Mormon and the Meth-head Podcast
“Just for now,without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness.
…
Just for now, be boundless, free, with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are – so fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant, just for now..”
― Danna Faulds
Inspired by……………….
Stasia Savsuk “Change your pants, change your life”
A Small Wardrobe
Frank James
Katwise
Susannah Conway
listening to……………..
“We’re all just walking each other home”
― Ram Das
Whatever 2018 has brought to you, I wish you a shiny bright new start today. X
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Where do you find your inspiration? how do you stretch your creativity to include new patterns and shapes?
While I took a long pause from painting and drawing through the summer, seems maybe my muse melted in the heatwave, I was all out of inspiration for weeks. Instead I turned my attention to sewing and spent my spare time adding to this ongoing project .
Then, as suddenly as the ideas had dried up, they began to repopulate my thoughts.
A couple of months ago I started a new art journal. This time, instead of my usual blurted streams of consciousness, wild splats of color and scribbled thoughts, I have something of a theme going on this time.
The pages are beginning like usual, with splashes and washes of color from messy brush wipes, patches of color to use up left over paint.
BUT, the next step is the new part: every page is has space for drawing something I’ve been inspired by.
So often I take photos of patterns and shapes, so often I save images from artists and designers.
All the things that light up my imagination and set off a new train of doodles.
So I’ve got an enormous catalogue of inspiration tucked away in my phone, my bookmarks & favs.
When I get a spare few minutes, or when I want to warm up my drawing brain, I go to my art journal to add drawings and doodles inspired by someone or something in my list.
I was fascinated by the shapes and lines of these rocks on the beach in Cyprus last month. Dozens of photos of these wonderful wobbly lines. This is the first of a series they inspired.
Meanwhile, other artists have been drip-feeding ideas into my mind too. I invite their influence to stretch my skills, to let their style add new aspects to the way I doodle.
Alisa Burke creates fabulous flowery mandalas and often shares her process in Instagram. It’s such a meditative process, watching the patterns unfurl onto the page.
This is the first of my inspired by Alisa spreads.
Where do you find your inspiration? how do you stretch your creativity to include new patterns and shapes?
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I’m here to bring a little bit of spinning bright colorfulness to your Friday. Here’s a 3D view of the color wheels I made in Twelvty 2018
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