In 2011, I attended an exhibit of Tim Burton's work at a museum in Los Angeles. I marveled at his prolific creativity. The man must have visions of art buzzing in his head morning, noon and night. He doodles, draws and scribbles all the time. How I wish there were a way to make that kind of stuff happen in my head. Today I picked up the book of Burton's work that I bought that day at the museum and was inspired to just goof around with water colors and pen. Oh my goodness, do I have work to do!
While I am trying to find time to be creative, I have found that I struggle with what I want to make and create. Haven't I fussed about this before? I continue to spend a lot of my spare time working with my son's girlfriend as her senior project mentor. In trying to come up with creative ideas, I thought it would be fun for both of us to learn how to solder and make jewelry like the piece I had published in Cloth Paper Scissors (which was not soldered, but easily assembled) as well as try sketching and painting. Now I had a reason to paint. This is my attempt at playing around for something to sandwich between glass for a necklace. We'll just call these practice and a source of chuckles.
 |
| This is where we learn what happens when we put too much paint on at once and then touch it. |
 |
| This is what happens when we try again and DON'T touch it |
All I can do is just keep trying. I'm going to put a little sketch book in my car so when I'm waiting to pick up kids from school, I've got no excuse. I hope to continue to be inspired to just give various types of art a whirl, improve my skills and more importantly, get back to having fun being creative regardless of the outcome.
