Artisitic Inspiration is a Jealous Lover

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BUTTERFLY POP ART

My Latest Inspiration

INSPIRED BY INSPIRATION

How a cooking show and some butterflies interrupted my morning coffee.

I was watching "Avec Eric", a cooking show with Chef Eric Ripert, while I sipped my early morning mocha.  When he asked another chef where his inspiration came from it made me cringe.  Personally, I loathe being asked that question.  I don't want to spend my time thinking about where Inspiration comes from, I want to spend my time expressing Inspiration.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I look to closely at my Inspiration it will disappear, though more likely I don't like to think about it because I don't really know exactly where this constant companion comes from.  Inspiration was my imaginary friend for as long as I can remember, it's always been there and it rarely disappears.

Though I don't know where my Inspiration comes from I do know how it gets my attention.  Sometimes it will strike me like a mugger boinking me over the head with a full blown concept and sometimes it comes like a thief in the night armed with just a germ of an idea that robs me of my sleep.  Often it acts like a nosy neighbor who comes knocking on my door for some sketchy gossip, interrupting my plans for the day. Annoying as it's timing can be, Inspiration has also gently whispered to me numerous times, taking my hand when I'm grieving from a loss and guiding me to a new project to ease my pain. Inspiration has been my best friend and a caring lover at the worst times of my life.

I admit that Inspiration and I have a love/hate relationship.  I am never without Inspiration, it constantly bombards me with ideas, smothering me with a constant demand to draw this and write that.  It interrupts me when I'm washing dishes, it tugs at my mind when I'm trying to relax and it badgers me to constantly create, create, create until I'm exhausted from the efforts to please.  My nature to get things done NOW is in direct conflict with Inspiration's multi-tasking.  There aren't enough hours in the day or days in the year to do all the work that is on my Inspiration's to-do list.

My life is littered with sticky notes of Inspiration.  It's the bane and the blessing of my life as an artist and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Pop Art Food & August is American Artist Appreciation Month

POP ART FOOD
Pop Art Burger & Fries, Pop Art Cookies, Pop Art Pie, Pop Art Cake

This is what I've been working on the last month or so - Pop Art Foods. I've wanted to do this pop art edible series for ages and I got started with my Pop Art Cupcakes, then came Pop Art Popsicles and Pop Art Ice Cream Cones then it just took off from there. Having a great time with it too! Next? Pop Art Hot Dogs, what else?

Upcoming art events for August

Just to let you know, August is American Artist Appreciation Month. There should be some great shows and events in your local galleries and museums featuring American Artists.

Plan ahead, call around and see what you can line up to add to your artistic education and appreciation.

I'm searching for some retrospectives on the American Pop Artists.

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Work of Art - The Next Great Artist : Are you watching?

Two episodes of Work of Art - The Next Great Artist have appeared on Bravo.

I really liked this last episode where they were taken to an electronics "junk yard" and given the task of putting together a sculpture from whatever they could grab and drag back to the studio with them.

Miles - who admits he has OCD - got so disturbed by the mess he took a nap in the junk yard. He also took a nap on his sculpture during the showing. I won't say more - no spoilers here - but he is one of the more interesting participants.

I liked this challenged and kind of wished I was a part of it. It looked like great fun and I love the idea of re-purposing trash into art. Makes me want to run out and pillage my neighbors trash cans.

I rather liked most of the efforts put forth - I thought the judges were a bit harsh on a few. I always keep in mind that art is subjective and each viewer brings their own perspective and life experiences to the party, including so called experts, so all art competitions are a bit pointless in a way. Art is such a personal thing to both the artist and those who experience the work that I've always taken all proclamations of "good art/bad art" with a grain of salt.

Are you watching?
What do you think so far?
Which artist annoys you and which one is your personal favorite?
What do you think of art critics and art competitions??
Would you like to have "nap" as your art medium?

Have a good day and keep creating no matter what anyone says to you.

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Well, Whaddya Know - An ARTIST'S REALITY SHOW!

Thought you might be interested to know that Bravo TV is going to have a reality show about Artists! After all the love - cooking - racing - snarking reality shows have littered up the small screen we artists finally get our two crayons worth in!

Work of Art - The Next Great Artist debuts on June 9th on Bravo - check your local listings for the times. I'm looking forward to it, I often thought about suggesting one but then I wondered, "how much drama could there be in one of us painting, drawing, sculpting away for cash and prizes?"

How stupid of me! Artists are naturally dramatic and don't you believe if anyone tells you there is no jealousy, envy or any of the other downfalls of humanity in the art community. After 30 years of doing art shows, working in art and advertising departments and dealing with fellow art co-workers, I should know better!

It should be interesting, if not all that based in reality, despite being a reality show. It is television after all and I'm sure ratings will come into play. I'm certainly going to watch with interest and I wanted to share the news with you. Please let me know what you think after the first episode or two! I'll try to get back here and post about it.

Yes, I've been remiss in posting lately - thank the fact that I am buried under a load of design requests and commissions as well as continuing to create for my online stores and rebuilding my website yet again!

BTW, check out the show's website on the link above - they even have an online drawing tool you can doodle around with. I'm going back now to check out the artists they've lined up and I already have one issue with the show - they're all young! Hey, Bravo, old people have talent too!!!!

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Happy Valentine's Day - FREE Art Books for You.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Here's my gift to you - a link to FREE Art Instruction Books you can download in PDF format - including Watercolor for Dummies!

Just click the book cover and it will take you to a page for the download - use the FREE download and just be a bit patient. The file will download as a zip file and the PDF book is in the last file folder!

I just downloaded two free Sydney Sheldon Novels!

Enjoy!

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CREATE A FONT OF YOUR OWN HANDWRITING FOR FREE!

I discovered this great site where you can create a font of your own handwriting for FREE. I did it and now have my own handwriting style in a font on my computer:

I call is "I Failed Handwriting" for a joke because I actually did fail handwriting in grade school. It was the "cursive" version of handwriting and I failed because I refused to draw some of the letters the way we were supposed to - in particular the "T" because it was so ugly. If it hadn't been the first letter of my first name maybe I wouldn't have been so stubborn, lol.

I am going to do some more fonts here for my own graphics uses too - I'm already playing around using different mediums like pencils and crayons. I think this is the coolest thing since sliced bread for artists and graphic designers and wanted to share it with you!

If you want to create a font of your handwriting go to:
FONTCAPTURE.COM

Merry Christmas and don't say I never gave ya nothin', lol!

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