Studio Notes

I remain grateful for inspiration. Today’s journal page began quite differently, a simple representation of a sea goddess. My hand had other ideas, and in the end, the familiar words of the Charge of the Goddess echoed through my mind.  I love when a page goes it unexpected directions.I love it even more when a drawing emerges from out of nowhere. I had every intention of sketching a simple outline and filling it with collage.

I’ll take inspiration anywhere I find it. I’m just excited that I am finding it after such a long creative wasteland. Today’s inspiration comes from  Panthea’s Create-a-Goddess. After creating an icon sized goddess on that site, I chose to recreate her in collage. I present Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth and Home.

Is it an oasis or a mirage? All I know is that after months in the creative desert, I have found a few drops of inspiration. Issue 12 of Art and Life arrived last week and I am still savoring the eye-popping color and richly layered pages that are Teesha Moore’s fabulous style. I’m always inspired by her work, and this time I was driven into a creative frenzy over this little journal construction project.You know I am not a linear thinker, and this journal is perfectly non-linear. There are pages for thoughts, after-thoughts and lists. The first page you see when it opens is somewhere in the middle of the back. I love it.Now, if only this creative oasis can refresh me long enough to fill this journal.