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.

Last night I got inspired to work on a piece that has been languishing in my studio for almost a year. It’s a polyclay mosaic that I started last December.  Some things can’t be hurried. That’s a lesson that has been both intuitive and difficult for me.  I don’t hurry for my own sake, but I do get pressured by others to ‘finish’ projects.  It never makes me happy, and the results are seldom good.  

If you listen carefully, you can hear the stirrings of an idea. Shhh.  I can’t talk about it yet. New ideas can be that fragile. Let’s wait and see what happens.