In the past I have written about "grids" ... "repeating elements" ... "living/dying" ..."patterns"... spirals and circles. Somehow, they all relate to me and my art expression. I get them from the universe all the time, via cards and presents loved ones send me and I can soapbox enough to bore you for sure normally, but not today. Today is just for these pics getting taken - period. Having them in my image files is this first part of the goal done. The girl/boy motifs are all things my mother/father sent me over a span of years. I guess maybe that is them. And the three birds are actually things I received from one Aunt. Every few years I would get some kind of wish from them with these patterns in the theme. I always wanted to photograph or use them as groups of repeating patterns/themes somehow.
Keeping up with my art goals regularly has been harder, if not more difficult, than goals in physical exercise, eating for life, and about on the level of the proverbial "book I am writing"... So, getting these pictures this day was a baby step to one general art goal - all the baby steps add up to a real walk the talk, if I live long enough :-)
The use of generic collage is to just get them as a group in this blog as an example of what I think about when roaming my rooms! Another baby step reported on. Just needing to keep something like this regular - showing up at the artist way page so to speak. The word "Frozen" was posted by the Friday Illustration group and I grabbed it for a writing prompt here. I get reminder emails on a subject each Friday and generally dream of drawing for the prompt but never actually execute them. My loss. I saw the topic called Frozen and felt it hit me right in my creative stomach, but could be expressed more in writing than doing a drawing. This collage and writing lessens the guilt I feel over not really participating, just watching from behind the scene, in that group ;-)
I feel frozen with several art projects hanging in my head for too long. In the spirit of baby steps I needed to do some little part of one or another this weekend, or kill them. Some, I have actually killed, but I tend to hang on thinking I will finish eventually. I needed the individual pics in this collage for other projects. In taking them, I also got to experiment with the collage feature in Picasa and glad I did because I will probably never use it again, if I do not have too. Very clunky, not enough control over each added image, and the final image is way too HUGE to be posting to internet. Had to go in and fix with Photoshop in the end.
The synchronous part of today's post was Michael Nobbs posting a tweet and sending me off to a wonderful artist: Kate Bingaman-Burt, who's drawing ability, style, words, creativity and the whole focus of her online presence just blew me away. And of course for today deal in patterns with a recycling collection type philosophy! The link, as the illustration part of this post, goes to her zine patterns page. But, please, spend some time there and check out her other Flickr pages and her blog - EVERYTHING is just great ;-)
