Daily Creativity

So whatever you do as a living, it can only help to add a bit of creativity to your day. My husband & I hear " someday we will write songs again", "someday" i will dance again", ect.... The perfect time may never come. Let's start now "SOMEDAY is TODAY"!!!!!

Commit to 5 minutes a day. That's it. Not too scary! Get a notebook, a fancy pen, & a spot in or by your house. Write for 5 min. a day. Forget abt. laundry, kids, work, ect. Start small. You can simply write how you feel abt. this exercise. Get it out. Dont worry abt. the end result, you're just getting in the habit which takes a couple of weeks to do. I will give you more ideas later. Today it's enough. You just started being a bit more of the person you want to "someday be"> CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life or Death

to all of us who choose to use creativity to express ourselves. this is a reminder. we can ( and do) express life or death with our art. . Example: i know an artist who is quite successful. she has a gallery and even does vollunteer work. she goes into schools and teaches art. she is very sad about pollution and the state the earth is in. she teaches the children how to make very realistic fish skeletons. this teaches the children what we will pass on to their children if they don't do something about it. i say her perspective is wrong. why not teach them to make beautiful ,colorful fish.? lets teach them what the earth CAN look like if they do something about it! then plant a tree together ,or clean a beach as a class project. does your music as a whole, express hope? do your pictures suggest darkness or light? when someone leaves with a piece of your creativity, what do they leave with? what are you wanting them to leave with? there is enough darkness and difficulty in this world already. if we can encourage others, why not do it? plus, if you are a student, and child of the Ultimate Creator, i believe it is your responsibility! just a reminder...( and I know that there is a time and place for showing the dark side of life, just not the majority of the time!) dawne

spring

What a wonderful way to welcome spring....

My Artwork...

Title: Hatching...

mixed media assamblage

size: 11" by 17"

One of my Light boxes. It's a real egg that lights up. It reads" She just knew people could tell she was hatching"

Title: Bloom

Mixed Media Assemblage...

Title: The Watcher

Mixed Media

This one was dedicated to my adopted Grandpa who was on the 1st boat we sent to the battle of Normandy & has his original handwriting on it!

Title: Emerge

Mixed Media Assemblage

Another of my light boxes. The Praying Mantis Case is a Chandelier that actually lights up! Of course I had to put graffiti on the tree.

Title: Unrelinquished Love

Mixed Media Assemblage

It reads " They gave it a whirl, but in the end, they were just too different..." ( One of my light boxes, & part of my Bird Brain Series.) I think wasp nests are so sculptural so I made this one a chandelier. It actually lights up.

Title: Texas Ranger

Mixed Media Assemblage

THIS IS MY TRIBUTE TO THOSE IN UNIFORM WHO KEEP TEXAS SAFE. HE IS EXTRA SPECIAL BECAUSE I LIKE TO USE BUGS THAT HAVE LIVED FULL LIVES & MOST ARE MISSING THEIR ANTENNA. THIS ONE HAS HIS ORIGINALS!( PART OF MY TRIBUTE TO TEXAS SERIES)

Title: Take Flight

Mixed Media Assemblage

Title: Destiny

Mixed Media Assemblage

Title: Thankful Reminder

Mixed Media Assemblage

Title: Texas Tea

Mixed Media Assemblage

( part of my Tribute to Texas Series)

Title: Swimming in Space ( part of my Bird Brain Series)

Mixed Media Assemblage...

Title: Bloom

Mixed Media Assemblage...

Thankful

Texas Tea

Part of my 'Tribute to Texas" series

Destiny

Take Flight

I love nature and wanted elevate it to art ( which is what God made it anyway :)

michelangelo

did you know michelangelo was the first rock star of the art world? he had 13 to 20 assistants at any given time. he was also creating up until 8 days before he died! this was also amazing because he was using the medium of marble with his feeble hands! he and davinci had a fierce competitive thing happening. too bad they couldnt get past it. i would love to have seen them work together on something! i dont mean side by side, i mean together! he felt he really NEEDED to understand the workings of the human body in order to communicate it properly. he would do autopsies late at night at a friends morgue. although the church was not thrilled about this, it paid off when he finished the statue of mary holding Jesus(Pieta). He was so concerned about the finished product being the best that it could be, that he wouldnt rush the painting of the cistine chapel. he wouln't rush, even when struck by the pope with his staff! he wanted his work to be excellent. i would say there is no human on earth that could dispute that he achieved it . may we look to others (like michelangelo) to inspire us to go just a bit further than we currntly are in all of our endeavers. so we can't carve moses, but we CAN make those dishes shine! plus, i can't wait to play playdough with my kids again! i feel a rockin daisy comin on! ok, the art community may not be impressed,but im pretty sure my two year old will! sooo...get to crackin!(or creating) dawne

Unrealistic Expectations...

ok, so i have been struggling with teaching my children artistic endeavers without perfection. they totally get it. i am the one that expects perfection from my work. they throw themselves into each project with no hesitation. they enjoy the process. and the messy end result, according to them? perfection! (no matter the mistakes). sometimes they teach me more than i teach them. i really like this quote. see if it helps you, too... "nothing will take the place of working at our craft. that is why it is important not to become frustrated when our skill level doesnt match our expectations. it takes time to reaquaint ourselves with our re-awakened talent. instead of expecting perfection, we should expect to make mistakes and learn from them-to use them as part of our personal growth process. to my knowledge, no masterpiece was ever created during the first attempts to grow familiar with a particular medium. if we learn to enjoy the developmental process and not be afraid to make mistakes,eventually we will learn the truth of the craft. true exitement comes when we realize that the more we exercise our gift the more joy and satisfaction we feel and the more skilled we become. its all a part of the journey. so,we might as well enjoy it! ---thomas blackshear(illistrator,painter,and,creater of the limited edition prints "forgiven","coat of many colors","lord of all,"and "watchers in the night")