“People who need certainty in their lives are less likely to make art that is risky, subversive, complicated, iffy, suggestive, or spontaneous….Simply put, making art is chancy-it doesn’t mix well with predictability.”
- Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Art Making , By: David Bayles & Ted Orland
Describing me as risky or spontaneous is not the words that I would use. I am just not that type of person, but I am an ARTIST. In many ways I always knew my personality inhibited my creativity or more so my willingness to put myself out there. I became a teacher because it was safe, and not as risky as some of the other career choices that I could have made. That’s what this blog is about for me, it to help me learn how to put myself out there. I have ideas stored away in my sketch book waiting to come out, but then there is the part of me that wonders who would buy it, and if no one is going to buy it and I don’t have a spot for it in my home then what is the point of making it? My practical side always gets in my way…
It’s time to ignore my practical side for a moment, and give the creative side a chance. And you know what? I’ve actually been doing just that. I started want of those ideas stored away in my sketchbook, and am finally finishing a painting that I’ve been promising to a friend. Maybe this will be an Artful summer for me after all. (That’s what I told all my students as they left for summer break…”Have an Artful summer. When you get bored pick up some are supplies and create.") Maybe I will actually practice what I teach this summer.
This is the idea from my sketch book that is now getting turned into a painting.
More pictures to come of the paintings in progress...
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