The Learning Dreamer

My Messy Atelier Where I Make Stuff My whole life, I have been alternating writing with making stuff. I could not choose between one or the other. At 52, I chose to NOT choose: I do what I feel like I want to make and create.  Since that decision, I feel much more at peace, I'm more creative, more inclined to show and share my work. I finish what I start. As I was also taking time to journal my progress, I became more conscious of the process, my process. I found that my brain has two ways. One with words, and one with lines, colors, shapes and textures. One with thoughts and a pen, the other one with whatever my hand can find to create with those brain-eyes (my invention), more visual. I discovered Creative Me has seasons in a year. For example, summers are for making stuff and reading. Winter is for writing, and a bit of drawing and painting. Equinoxes help transition from one to another.  If I can, I read all year long but, this past year, I added a graduate program to my ...

This artist wrote something that gave me a haha moment, just like this other  commenters . In the following, I share my thoughts on inspiration and my art process. I'm often told by my visual art mentor (my mom) that I worked too much on that piece from my art journal or my sketchbook. Some readers of my words told me the same. Today, I just figured out my art journal, my sketchbook, my bullet journal, my Pride List , carry the same goal: help me think and evolve. They are my progress and inspiration notes. It took me years of Morning Pages, then a daily sketch practice in a bullet journal to understand what was a writer's notebook. Talk about a curvy and detoured journey! I love how Eibhlin explains the purpose of her zine : to share and document her ideas while working on a concept, knowing that this will inspire other artists to create a work of art. Just like she got ideas from others' projects. To me, any creation (visual, writing, musical, engineered, built, etc.) ...

My mother gave my daughter a box of watercolor pencils when she was around 10 years old i.e: about 10 years ago. The other day, I took them out of their box to draw and paint. Those pencils carry the label of " aquarellable ". Their color will dissolve in water. Unfortunately, it did not. I tried several types of papers, with the 12 pencils, butt felt like I was using with my wooden crayons. And they did not react to water at all. How frustrating.  Since I'm a lucky genXer with a job, I went to my favorite art store and bought a black and a white aquarellable pencils. Those ones were real and new watercolor ones! Unlike the old, I discovered that my daughter's 10 year-old birthday gift was done filling it's purpose. Not in a literal way because I can still use them to only. color. and. draw. Only.  I expected to use them in my new found passion : watercolor arts.  Morale of The Story: USE BEFORE IT DRIES!  With time, our art material gets rotten or dry.  Pigment...