Creative Day with Cricket

One part of the Artist's Way class is creating a collage.

Tearing and ripping out images that draw your eye and speak to you. It eventually becomes a collage but what it truly becomes is a visual map of everything you want to do. The last time I did one was with Cricket at our old house and it was so much fun.

Tearing into magazines, talking about what we want for ourselves and when you finally put it all together it's your vision - tangible and in hand. Your dreams in a visual form...gotta love that.

Sometimes I can see these things better than I can verbalize them so this exercise is right up my alley. Usually at first, I don't want to do it but after I just want to swim in the world I've created.

Staring at it constantly, subconsciously it begins to live and breathe on its own.

Talking about the class with Cricket and the upcoming collage experiment, I asked her if she would like to do this again with me which she excitedly agreed. It was time for her too to do another. Today we pulled all our images and started piecing it together. Sooooo excited about it.

The last time I did one of these, everything on it happened. I mean EVERYTHING. Living the dream. Gotta live the dream.

The Artist's Way

So... In between moving, trying to find a new place to live, getting re-settled, working and writing a press release for an upcoming show at the Gallery on Greene, I decided it was time to retake a class.

The Artist's Way.

Took it a few years ago which helped me start painting again. Thought about taking it again before I left on my trip cause I need to get more comfortable with my art being seen and really putting it out there. I've got an opportunity to illustrate a children's book and have been blocking it for some reason. Determined to remove the block, I signed up for the course.

I waited and waited on it cause I will have to miss some classes due to work. Thought I might do it on my own but the structure and interaction of class have a lot more oomph to it.

As I started the process of moving out of the place I've been in, Salvation Army arrived to pick up the bed and there was so much movement happening all at once, it was kinda perfect that the Studios of Key West called exactly at that moment to find out if I was in.

I decided to do it and am so glad I did. The group is great and think I'm going to get a lot out of it. It's exactly what I needed.

Going to start dismantling my studio today. More importantly going to get some supplies and my desk today.

Time to take everything to the next level.