tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60965456764017766132024-02-02T00:26:59.893-08:00ColorPlayArt from the heartDiptihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472221323610003915noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096545676401776613.post-71196140447887762011-10-02T07:22:00.000-07:002011-10-02T07:25:40.299-07:00I'm back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Over the past few days, I've been delaying posting anything as it's
way to time consuming and I'm literally gathering every precious free
moment for doing what I love..paint, cut, stamp and so on.<br />
Does
the digital media really help us in connecting with other like minded
individuals or is it an information overload? At times I spend hours
looking up what other bloggers are displaying, what other artists are
creating and after a while my mind is a mess of ideas. No, sketchbooks
haven't worked for me, I like creating as and when an idea comes to me.
Now I'm trying the alternative. I'm trying to move away from my laptop,
my iPad and my iPhone and to use whatever I've recorded in my brain bank
after so much exposure to work of other creative folk.<br />
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Magazines
help a lot in the inspiration department, but then again, my best bet
would be to close my eyes and pick a page to follow and be tickled by.
Most of the magazines I've bought are bookmarked to infinity, tiny
strips of hand torn newspaper, each one marking an idea I want to carry
forward from.<br />
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My "Technique Tomes", as i would like to
call them are I think by far the most useful for learning something
without bogging me down with jargon and making me want to balance a
hundred balls in the air. Typical blogs would include links to those,
right here!! What better way to get more traffic? Doesn't anyone think
beyond the buck and fame anymore? Unlike most blogs and magazine
articles, books do not, at most times, stress the use of specific
products and don't (mostly) ask me to go follow the "link" trail, a wild
goose chase, let me tell you. I'm sure there will always be a thousand
and more tools I don't own, which are just calling out my name, and god
knows, I already own thousands of these. As a saving grace, let
me just say that I make just use of most of them.<br />
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All
said and done, I'd say my aim in starting this long trail of words is
finding some balance between my very very small exhibitionist trait and
my wish to show my near and dear ones what I'm creating, to gather some
positive critique for my work. I wish I could find a free web art
gallery, does anyone know one, because I don't intend to spend some more
time online trying to find one. And yes, I know I'd love doing that!<br />
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Believe
me, I've had my share of Facebook moments, I've glorified and
criticized my photos, posting by some dear and some not so dear
"friends", I've succumbed to the idea that I am what I show the world I
am. But now I'm retreating form it all, because I've sampled the fare
and loved it's taste but in the long run, it is just a medium like
e-mail to keep in touch with acquaintances that may progress to being
friends (the real ones). I'm a partially social animal you know, so
being in the loop won''t hurt ;) so from now on, I'm going to try and be
as free flowing in my words as I can without thinking of the fact that
I'm being exposed to the Whole Wide World (that's what I think the
internet is). And God help me from being online too long. My poor
daughter is already bored to death as she sees me glued to the laptop
typing away like a maniac.....<br />
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So see you soon with lots of new work I create in a distraction free world, hopefully</div>
Diptihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472221323610003915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096545676401776613.post-77208271143337850282011-08-02T13:19:00.000-07:002011-08-02T13:30:47.628-07:00Another mixed media creation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Wanted to display this one since long....picture taken with my new iPhone :))) This one came with an increase in confidence of using gel and matte media as well as molding paste. Golden Acrylics products rock! The color combination just happened too, and that was the best part. The painting depicts everything I remember about home: curling up in bed or on the living room sofa with a good book, having tea with my family etc etc.<br />
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I wanted to express the idea of setting oneself free, letting go and going with the flow. Love the poem on getting caught in one's own rhytym...<br />
Its pure joy to splash artist quality, pigment rich acrylics around paper, and this was my first use of matte and gel media. Just inaugurated my small new box of Rembrandt pastels.Nothing beats the smell of the pastel fixative ;) <br />
Now I've taken the plunge, the world's my oyster!<br />
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