Two friends dancing with tulips..thinking about home? At home?
- Home is where your cat is.
- MsKitty and ToyPony art* at home in CurlyCueLand, TopsyTurvyTulipLand, Connect-The-DotsLand, SpiralGyreLand, and DaisyLand. Dizzy? (*typo left in intentionally).
- A cat’s place is her home range.
- Cat’s rule the home….what, you think you do?
- MsKitty at home with friends: ToyPony, Pot-of-Tulips (Twolips?) Egg Cups and Daisies.
- MsKitty left home on a Quest last October…is she home yet?
The above random thoughts are brought to you by brain storming. Not quite up to brain mapping yet. Heather is teaching me how, thank you! And, thank you Heather for the kind comments you posted on your blog!
The thoughts on home are in honor of “Home” theme month at “Creative Every Day Challenge” blog.
Still idea chasing, idea catching, idea scratching, playing with ideas, roaming ideas, nurturing ideas, and being at home with ideas!
One way I am using to "catch ideas" is to draw items I have laying around the house. I find that once I've drawn something, I know it a little bit better. If I draw it a couple of times, or more, I start to build on memories, project a character, and develop empathetic feelings. The wonderful thing is, it's OK and acceptable in art to empathize with inanimate objects. It's how I make it personal and bring meaning and life. Heady stuff!
Or, if simply put, drawing something makes it feel special to me. My "pin-ball brain" is still bouncing around. So far, I think I've avoided "TILT", but am not sure! Enjoy!
I think blind contour drawings are more in the realm of technical skill development than idea catching. However, the distorted lines and shapes could be a start of a fun abstraction.
I'm including the blind contour drawing from last week that got cut off. The ensemble of three drawings are of MsKitty and an espresso cup. I thought I'd work on foreshortening…such a wonderful exercise for blind contour drawing!
Oh, I'm confused about what day of the week it is. I meant to post this on Friday….the benefits of working at home!
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MsKitty is busy staring down ideas….do you suppose it works?
I think it’s high time I started explaining my “idea catching”. This all began a couple of weeks ago. I was reading some comments to a fellow art blogger’s posting. This particular artist works in watercolors, has recently won awards in watercolor magazines and has lots more experience than me. A reader posed the question: where do you get your ideas? What a terrific question! My brain cells did a hard right into brain pin-ball mode. It’s sort of like Topsy-Turvey-Land.
The question started bumping and rolling around my brain and hasn’t stopped. Where do I get ideas? And where might I find really CREATIVE ideas? I need to CATCH these ideas.
The answer given included one way to cultivate ideas: focus on technique. This helps on two levels. Learning technique gives you the ability to communicate your ideas. And, technique itself can be a source. Barbara Nechis’ book “Watercolor from the Heart” is all about technique as a source of inspiration.
I thought I’d post two ways I catch ideas. The sepia drawing is a way of exploring an idea. I get to see what the paint does, think about space division, and composition problems in a non-threatening way. I’m not up on stage performing! The other is a page of brain storm drawings.
I would like to continue discussing idea catching over the next few postings. In the meantime, how do you catch ideas?
I thought these three drawings would make a nice grouping. Plus, this catches me up on my daily drawings! Click on one of the drawings to see them better. Thank you and enjoy!
More daily drawings to ponder. Over 30 days of daily drawings! TulipLand is my kind of place. I can't explain the crossed paws; they appeared and stayed.
I'm a little bit behind. It may take me a couple of days or so to get caught up with posting my daily drawings. In the meantime, here's Daily Drawing #30. I was having fun with paint and brush… Enjoy!
