Art Work.

New thoughts

  I've recently been reading up on something called a growth mindset.  This basically means you change your mindset from "I can't" to "I can" by looking at things differently.  Instead of seeing it as too hard, perhaps you look at it as you are missing something in your understanding.

I've always thought I could not draw in any way shape or form so I've never thought of myself as an artist.  The other day I doodled a bit and actually liked the flower I drew.

As today is the first of the month, I always look for e-books on sale so I can stock up on them.  This time, I looked at and purchased art technique books.  I can tell you I am not going to so anything about them right now because I do not have the time but I can read them here and there just to learn more about the techniques.

I've found books on acrylic, drawing, mixed media, and other techniques.  I'm even looking at a book on making your own supplies.  I just want to learn more about art and learning to express myself creatively as a way of fulling a desire I have. I've always wanted to draw a dog which actually looked like a dog instead of a mutant horse. 

My kids used to laugh hysterically when I tried to draw anything.  I have a cartoon bird which looks good but nothing out.  I even found a couple apps which teach you to draw certain characters.  Yes.

Right now, I can recreate historical gowns complete with corsets and petticoats.  I can do it without a pattern or with.  I can pleat, make bows, create beautiful trim out of ribbon and other supplies but when I draw, I suck.  Another thing I want to become passable is to draw clothing on figures.  In regard to that, you down load a body from the internet to draw your clothing creations on.

I may never be a Picasso or a Grandma Moses but that does not mean I can't do it for myself.  For the pure joy of it.  No one ever said that we have to be great at anything, especially if we discover a passion for it.  What do you think.

Beautiful Art

Snake and the dragon.

 When I was exploring the SeaTac Airport, I discovered this cool display of art work along the way between the A and B concourses.

Every whimsical piece of art was created out of glass and was made with children in mind.  Now I admit, I'm still a child at heart so I had to take pictures of as many as I could.  For some reason the digital camera I ended up using hates me.  I just won't let me take clear pictures and the ones I've posted are the best of the lot.

Notice the above picture with the snake up a tree and the very cute comic like dragon seems to be checking it out at a distance.  Both are done with wonderful detail.

Below is a pair of space aliens.  I'm not sure about the three headed and four legged one but I do like the red spotted yellow blob one.  I think its kind of cute.

Space Aliens.

 Check out the blue shark with the mouth fully open.  I love the detail with the teeth that make it look ferocious.  I'm not sure what the little grey figure is but he reminds me of a cartoon character.

The shark and the alien

 Check out the cartoonish octopus with only four legs and what looks like glasses.  Next to him is a curious creature who looks almost like a plant and in front the rock with a beautiful red hat. 

Creatures of the deep.

These guys could have stepped off the screen into our world.  Perhaps they inhabit a fantasy world and came to visit.

Did they step from a film?

Enjoy these photos and if you are ever at SeaTac, check them out.

Art is All Around Us.

Today was one of those day's I needed something so I went to my stash of pictures and realized that there is so much art around us.  The art might be purposely created such as on the side of a bus so it catches every ones eyes.  The artwork advertising a business or a band.  Perhaps its on the wall of a house so that when seen between the two planters, you are suddenly transported away to another place.  There are times when our day has been horrendous and all we want to do is escape and pictures allow that.

I also love looking at nature, whose math is so incredible that each plant provides a beautiful display to see.  There are times, I can just sit in a flower garden, reveling in the different colors and shapes surrounding me.   I think we all need these little bits of beauty be it man-made or natural. 

I have friends who see the beauty in clothing and they love the variations they see there.  Others are captured by the fluidness of coding that causes things to blink, walk, or move.  Have you ever been with a geologist who found a crystal that in there eyes is absolutely perfect?  Or a wood carver who sees the inner grains of the wood to release the inner shape?  Others I know can look at a piece of fabric and turn it into something that speaks to everyone. 


 Even athletes see beauty in their shots.  That perfect shot made in the split second of time to fly through the hoop for three points.  Or that long pass in football that gracefully flies above every ones head to land exactly in the catcher's hand.

Each and everyone of those examples is art in its truest form.