365/38: MsKitty & Japanese Flower Hat Dancer
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!
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I love your work Peggy, especially the felines. I must confess that I am a cat person even though I have 2 dogs and a ferret in addition to 3 cats.
Your paintings have a very linear sense of division and use of space with an excellent use of color and value.
Ah Miss Japanese Flower Dancer! Beautiful drawing Peggy. I love the value and how it composes the whole image.
As for animating objects, I do it all the time and have done ever since I can remember. I've seen cars as my babies and feel very sad when I have to send one to the scrapyard – like I'm hurting it. Stupid I know, but that's just how I am. It probably explains why I'm a hoarder lol.
Oh, I've put my mind map up for you. It's based on a word and how you can use that word to produce techniques, but you can equally use it to produce an idea for an image i.e. if I think of Coast, then I will draw/paint a boat or a seascape. I hope you'll find it useful!
Hi Stan, Thank you for stopping by! Your interesting comments on Kathy’s blog piqued my interest. Wow! Must be a fun home with 2 dogs, a ferret and 3 cats.
Thank you, I am certain I have learned a sense of line from my Father who was a painter. We had long, treasured discussions about line.
Heather, Thank you so much for putting your description and illustration of mind mapping on your blog. It’s like taking brain storming to the next level! And thank you for your kind and generous comments! Into cars? Very cool! Hmm, there might be some interesting ideas and themes based on your relationships with cars….this idea pinball just keeps pinging around my brain!
One of your best–looks like she's dancing around MsKitty.
You're welcome Peggy. The way mind maps work is to make you think of a word/image, will which lead to another image, which in turn leads to another image. This is because the mind is a pictorial thinker and jumps around from thought to thought.
Think of when you write your shopping list (very linear). You mentally go around the shop and hope you haven't missed anything. If you were to mind map it then you'd most likely think of a meal, which would lead you to write all the ingredients down. Some of those ingredients could branch off into other meal ideas or you could jump back to start a new meal idea. I think it would be an interesting way to go shopping! Lol.
Oooo why don't you try mind mapping cars since you have ideas pinging around?
Great one, Peggy! I really like the inclusion of the white shape in your background. It helps to spotlight MsK and the dancer. Great job, also, of pushing the edges of that shape towards tangents with the edges of the foreground elements, but not quite getting there. Perfect execution… Careful with that pinball pinging around – isn't MsK ceramic? -Don
I think I read somewhere geniuses have a difficult time keeping on one train of thought because ideas are constantly running through their head.
I love the almost Cubist feel to this Peggy!
I'm fascinated with your introduction of the flower hat dancer. MsKitty seems to really like her too!
Hi Heather, I was thinking about mind mapping relationships…I keep thinking that relationships are what my drawings are about. Cars…we’ll just have to see! Thank you.!
Hi Don, OMG-ness! MsK is ceramic! No wonder she’s been doing the “duck and cover” dance! Poor kitty…Ok, down girl….
Thank you! I wish I could say I planned it that way, but the composition was my “push/pull” type dialog with the paper and pencil. And, I love that kind of dialog and problem solving!
Hi Sheila, Thank you! I do borrow ideas from Cubism. Hmm, a thought! Maybe the geniuses are the ones that have the ideas running through their head and manage to get some of them down on paper. I’m reminded of Myrna Wacknov’s comment a couple of days ago; she works at writing the ideas down!
Pam, The flower hat dancer was just sort of an accident. I was looking around for someone for MsKitty to visit and I saw this little cast figure. As I sat down to draw her, I saw these beautiful planes and angles. I’ve had her for years and never really looked! Thank you!
Thank you Hallie! I appreciate the compliment. I’m going to go and think awhile. This drawing has implications about my style and, dare I say, perhaps my artistic voice!
I like this stylization –it is very beautiful
Hi Celeste, Thank you! I'm glad you like the drawing!