Throwing matches on pools of flamable inspiration

There is plenty around me to inspire me. What has been lacking were the matches to set them on fire. I have to be the one to strike the match.

I’m trying to strike some matches today. Little ones because I am swamped with work, but I think it’s the little ones that are going to prove to be the most important to me. I am always going to be busy with things outside of my art practice. I have got to make something every single day. To my credit, when I opened my sketch book this morning, I found a surprising number of sketches that I’d done in the last couple of months. Work is happening, just not at the pace that I like. I need to start neglecting my husband and dog a bit. Start saying no to movies and start holing up in the garage. I’m got so many ideas swimming around in my head, I need to get them out or they are just going to fade.

I like to search for disaster related images on google and gather them up. This weekend I thought about taking images and putting band-aids on them. A simple idea but one that feeds what I’m interested in; a sort of morbidly humorous look at the destruction of the world. So here they are, my sketches for today:

band aid forestfire #1

bandaid clearcut

band aid forestfire #2

I’d like to get in the habit of posting something every day, to start talking about my work again in a public arena. I’m falling behind on the apple blogging, so maybe another project is the last thing I need. Maybe I should shoot for 4 posts a week about art ideas. I just know I need to start engaging in the world again when it comes to my art practice. I need my art blog to have something to do with art on a more regular basis.


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