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[shadowkat]

1. Ideal environment - select an image or write a paragraph or draw a picture of your ideal environment.




Or..


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OR..






Basically a cultural city environment, with public transportation and next to water. Also trees and mountains would be nice. But water is required.

2. Favorite Season - provide an image or picture explaining why it is your favorite season..

Eh..,





3. So far I've completed a watercolor tonight - it was crappy and I refuse to show it. It didn't work out the way I wanted it too. But I've three more drawings to turn into watercolors that may work.

Joni Mitchell states prior to playing the Circle Game - that it's each performance is something new. And unique to performing, after all you don't ask Van Gough to repaint a Starry Night, do you?

Clearly Joni Mitchell doesn't paint.

If he repainted a Starry Night, it would be unique and different too. You can't repaint it. It's impossible. Any more than you can sing a song the same way twice, or dance the same dance twice. Or write a story the same way twice (assuming you aren't copying it of course).

It's always different, because we are different moment to moment. We aren't stagnant.

My sister-in-law who is a professional artist - and her friend, loved my last watercolor - of the guy with the checkered jacket on Instagram.

Oh, and I decided to give my book to New Gal at work. Told her that most of it was made up, except for the interviews and the robbery - both happened. And one of the characters jobs, I actually had and I worked for a company kind of like that. Everything else was made up for the most part. The interviews in that book are outlandish - so it's possible people will think I made them up or they are unbelievable. Oddly the most unbelievable items, are real.

So much to do. I don't know how people get into bed by 9. So far:

* Made dinner & lunch
* spoke to mother
* finished watercolor
* completed a drawing for a watercolor
* read a few paragraphs of the Artist's Way
* completed two exercises for it and did post on DW
* watched soap opera and played designer video game.

Now, moving to my novel - which I'm still revising (not to be confused with the one that I already published) and hopefully read a few more pages of the Artist's Way before bed.

Comments

[spiffikins]

I agree - unless you are trying to make a reproduction - you can paint the same scene over and over and it will be different every time.

Today on my FB feed, one of the artist teachers that I follow, posted a quote by someone named Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - "Art is nature as seen through temperament" - which goes well with your view that each time you paint or draw something, *you* are different, so you create something different each time.

Oh I googled him - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism

[mtbc]

I now realize it's been a long time since I saw a chick.

With luck the crappy watercolor was at least a somewhat educational experience. It's good to give yourself the freedom to try stuff that might come out crap! After all, you're not answerable to anybody in it, which is great.

Yeah, evenings pass way too fast. I have such a to-do list outside work, it gets badly neglected, so quick things like renewing a library book online turn out to be the (small) triumphs.

[shadowkat]

Oh lovely quote, thank you. Also, I got him confused with Jean-Michael Basquiat - for some reason. So thank you for googling him.

I tend to think most paintings and drawings (that aren't done by computer programs) tend to be impressions or expressions of what we see? They are filtered through our perceptions. Now with computer programs enabling sketching, painting, etc - that's become a bit murky? A computer program could replicate the exact same image multiple times or make copies or prints of it. (This came to mind because - I was looking at art desks last night, and one of the reviewers mentioned that he bought it for his daughter because he was doing all his drawing via computer now.)

[shadowkat]

I think I rushed it - which never works well with painting, you need to take time with it. I got impatient and wanted to do another painting more. Watercolors, all art really, requires patience and a kind of relaxed and zen mentality. It's not something I can rush through.

It goes back to that feeling of not having enough hours in a day, I think?

[yourlibrarian]

Aw, that photo is definitely spring all over.

[shadowkat]

Also, really cute.

[mtbc]

Aha, that makes sense, a different kind of learning experience then, knowing how to tell when you shouldn't pick up the brush at all!