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First journal entry:
I am getting back to my art! I am motivated and I am ready to start painting again. I am getting some ideas together through stream of consciouness sketching. I am thinking of painting about some unsavory characters that I massage and anger at myself for not being more forceful in standing up against their behavior. oink
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bluepanda:
Thanks for the warm welcomes and advice.


Someone told me yestaerday that in order to create art work I needed to start living again and to begin by reading books, watching the news.... Doesn't she know that I have tried those things. My first instinct was to be defensive, but then I realized what she meant. I have read many books that have inspired me and I have been researching them as well. By what I realize is that until I actively fight to change our government, or actually practice paganism I am can only make art about a book or a tv personality, but I am not living it.
sapphic_fire:
welcome!
its true... we paint, write, do everything better and from a much realer place once we stop hiding from the world and allow ourselves to feel the pain and the anger that fuels our creativity....
artist paint a picture of their times whether its direct or indirectly and you can't create unless you're living in the same shit we all are...
when i write i feel like i'm emptying out my brain... i've been swallowing information and images and sensations for weeks and when i feel i'm "full" i let it all out on paper...
smile