Wordless Wednesday - a walk in the woods

So what does weekday morning traffic have to do with art....?

If you've ever wandered over to my other website and caught a glimpse of my little blog I have there,you might have seen my post a little over a month ago about how I had just been inspired to begin a new piece.



Weeks have passed since I began work on the piece, and I'm happy to say that I have finally finished!



You can see the detail more clearly here:



This abstract landscape began with a glance out of a car window, then continued its journey as first a drawing in stark black and white, and finally was given bold strokes of color.


As of right now this mixed-media abstract artwork has earned the name "View 59-1960", because inspiration does not always mean a creative title.

Wordless Wednesday September 26, 2012

 

 

And a new listing preview...

 


Must taste like candy!

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"Waxing" Creative... and a little welcome!

First of all, I'd like to give a little shout-out and welcome to a really cool lady with an awesome site to the right-hand side of this blog--> see? look over there! :) My Craft Assistant is a great site that offers assistance to Etsy sellers with SEO, marketing, shop setup, and more. I've been exploring the site and I am quite impressed - go check it out!


And now if my cat will stay off of the keyboard long enough for me to create the rest of this post...

Last night I stepped outside, just to get a little fresh air, and stood out in the front yard looking toward my neighbor's house, up at the moon and stars. I'd say it was close to ten o'clock, and I hadn't yet wound down to head to bed yet.

It's always so relaxing to gaze up at the night sky, and often very inspiring.

I had a wonderful view of the silhouettes of several trees, which framed a few bright stars and a crescent moon. I decided that, although I wasn't going to get out the paints at the time, I was inspired enough to begin a sketch on a canvas - the beginning of my next painting. I hope to get started on it this week!


What has inspired you lately?

The colors of inspiration

For Valentine's Day, I received from my absolutely wonderful "significant other" a bright, rainbow-colored knotted and woven bracelet. Since then, I have worn it just about every day (sometimes being in a rush and forgetting to put on my usual at least three bracelets before heading out the door), and have found myself studying the combinations of colors within the piece.

I have discovered that, even though I call it my "rainbow bracelet", the various color groupings are not of your typical ROYGBIV variety, but interesting variations of the same. I've found that the green-plus-yellow-plus-purple, or the pink-plus-orange-plus-green combinations, along with the others that catch my eye, to be great food for my imagination.

So, this begins a side-trip into the colorful corner of my mind, where I will begin creating art full of enough rainbows to feed all the unicorns in the universe.

Unicorns love sharpie markers.

some new-found inspirations...CityScapes

Sometimes this week, or perhaps this weekend, I'm going to start working on a painting or two. Of course, this depends on what sorts of fun things the house and kids suggest for me to do - you know, the usual laundry, cleaning, errand-running, etc...

If you have browsed through my paintings you may notice that much of my work revolves around trees and forests. However, I also have a love for interesting cityscapes!

I've decided that my next series will be based on and inspired by photos, memories, and paintings that I have seen of various skylines and cityscapes that I have seen. I'm even considering putting down the acrylics and - GASP! - using watercolor for a change heh heh...

Here are a few pictures that others have produced that have inspired me and gotten my brain churning and conjuring ideas:

There are so many amazing places - I'm going to enjoy this project! :)

Inspiration comes at odd times...

...in this case, an idea for a painting came as I was driving home, and had the setting sun in my rearview mirror, and the rising full moon up ahead of me.

I had in my minds eye the bright red-orange of the sun and the bright white of the full moon opposite one another, with some sort of scene unfolding between them, but wasn't entirely sure what exactly this scene was going to look like.

I finally decided on something simple, yet beautiful, and here is the result:



As soon as the art photography equation of time plus good outdoor lighting occurs around here, I'll be taking some more photos and listing the piece in my shop.

In other news - I need more sleep. x.x oy.