Hi creative people!
Where do you get your ideas for Art?
Well, sometimes I get ideas for art but the act of creation is the hard part. I think I know what I want and then when faced with the page, I freeze up... doubt myself and my choices. I get on Pinterest or other artist's blogs and start comparing myself. It's a no-win situation! It wastes time and cause procrastination (something I don't need more of btw). I start doubting my abilities, my creativity, and my ability to come up with something new. That's no good!
Intuition is there lurking in the background under all that doubt. I just have to shut down the comparisons and let it come through. Silence the doubts and close the windows of "inspiration" so that I can just create!
For this page, I started with the journaling! I knew what I wanted to say and typed it out on vellum to be layered over my art. I just didn't know what my final product would look like. Once I saw the lightbulb mask, I KNEW it would light up my page! I started by tracing the outside shape with pencil.
I then filled in that shape with Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Textural Accents Gesso.
I also dripped a bit so I went with it and splattered a bit more! ;)
The rest came out of opening myself up to creative ideas... I just went with it. I needed something more so I added some watered down Gelatos® color in Banana to the lightbulb. Once dry, I used a PITT Artist Pen to outline the mask. I grabbed the mask from one of our previous kits and added the arrows with the pen.
The vellum journaling block was added over it all and tacked down with stitching. I used the Distress paint below it with papers and the photo layered over it. Scribbling over the paint with colored pencils was also added. I just had fun!
I was very happy with this page. It's actually an illustration of what
happens when you let go of the comparisons and just have fun with the
creative process.
