So, one of my co-workers said something very silly to me today. She said, "oh, you really do that stuff?" Meaning, you really paint and draw?
"Well, I'm not claiming to be any good at it, but I enjoy it, yeah, I really do that stuff..."
She thought I just faked it to find common ground with a particular student of mine. Which in and of itself is not very offensive at all. If I could fake it well enough to fake common ground with a student to gain trust, yay me! But, yeah, no... I really like all that artsy-fartsy stuff.
And to that end, let me post some of the stuff I've been doing lately, and sprinkle it with some words here and there maybe...
This one is an inspirational quote on an old painting I had on an index card:
I don't work with Inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
- Chuck Close.
So, we just moved into our new house, and with 4 bedrooms, I am able to have my own room. My room becomes #1 guest room, but I'm happy to share with the occasional guest! In the meantime, I have my own room! Artsy-fartsy stuffs are mine to be organized in my room! Yay!
I can actually leave my sketchbook / journal out and my paints out, so that I can just pick up where I left off the next day. I have no one to clean up for. Just my own space to be as creative as I can be in.
So, that said -- one more Yay! -- I'm planning on a checkerboard bulletin board. The bulletin board would be the black squares, but I might paint them blue, and the white spaces in between, I can use to display my artsy-fartsy stuffs. And I thought, what a great inspirational quote to display! So, maybe it will be my first, when I finally get the bulletin board. :-) (I have my own room!)
This is from my second and third night of painting at the new house.
The house of the Knollwood Garden Faeries.
I painted it last night, no pen drawing first. Then tonight, an exercise out of one of my books was to do a background wash around a previous painting, so I added that, along with some other playing from my book.
And this was from night one. Imagine the Backyard with different features. The one I like the most is the tree, the tree wins, and I need to buy one soon so that it can start growing big, fast.
Other than that, I haven't done much lately, other than move, eliminate homely possessions, go back to work.... I've been busy, things have been in disarray, and I've been waiting desperately to move into my new home and find my space. And, as happy as a bug in a rug in my beautiful new room, that is me. Quite happen to challenge myself to an artsy-fartsy thing a day, every day, in my wonderful OWN space!
