![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The kids got into my files, and naturally the contents got scattered, and I found among them my collection of psychedelic crayonings. These have actually been posted on the web for the past ten years, but on the website about music (and by extension, my hippie tendencies) I originally made in library school that I don't link to anymore because it looks like an amateur website made in the early '00s. Oddly enough.
But I wanted to share them here, because visual art is so GOOD for sharing on the web, and I haven't really (unless you actually read my website about music from the early '00s). One of you suggested in the comments of a recent post that perhaps I'm focusing too hard on the fact that I'm not writing, that I've tied up too much of my identity in that ONE creative outlet and that's just making the block WORSE, and that maybe I should try SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Sensible. Even when I was a kid and writing constantly, I was involved in arts across the board. Even when I was a young adult. I think it's just been since the kids were born that I've had this trouble! But yes, I've always been musical. I've had flings with acting and dancing. I got really into constructive sewing in adulthood (before kids). And I've ALWAYS loved drawing, too.
Problem is, I'm not particularly good at photo-realistic drawing, or even Drawing Something Specific in Any WAY drawing. Still, I loved to make art, and I do have SOMETHING there, some kind of visual creativity-- enough that my Art In the Elementary School professor in college asked me why I didn't MAJOR in art (because... because no? I couldn't think of a really good reason because, only that I thought I couldn't actually do it). When I was working at the Children's Museum, early on before the expansion, we had a traveling exhibit on Marc Chagall. The philosophy of it was that the RULES weren't as important as much as creating art of your own unique style. I liked that, and I started focusing on MY kind of art... which turns out to be psychedelic, spiritual, and relatively abstract. And I also really, really like crayons.
So here, below the cut, are some of my drawings. Maybe it will inspire me to start making these again-- after all, my kids LOVE to color. They'd probably also love it if I joined them.
But I wanted to share them here, because visual art is so GOOD for sharing on the web, and I haven't really (unless you actually read my website about music from the early '00s). One of you suggested in the comments of a recent post that perhaps I'm focusing too hard on the fact that I'm not writing, that I've tied up too much of my identity in that ONE creative outlet and that's just making the block WORSE, and that maybe I should try SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Sensible. Even when I was a kid and writing constantly, I was involved in arts across the board. Even when I was a young adult. I think it's just been since the kids were born that I've had this trouble! But yes, I've always been musical. I've had flings with acting and dancing. I got really into constructive sewing in adulthood (before kids). And I've ALWAYS loved drawing, too.
Problem is, I'm not particularly good at photo-realistic drawing, or even Drawing Something Specific in Any WAY drawing. Still, I loved to make art, and I do have SOMETHING there, some kind of visual creativity-- enough that my Art In the Elementary School professor in college asked me why I didn't MAJOR in art (because... because no? I couldn't think of a really good reason because, only that I thought I couldn't actually do it). When I was working at the Children's Museum, early on before the expansion, we had a traveling exhibit on Marc Chagall. The philosophy of it was that the RULES weren't as important as much as creating art of your own unique style. I liked that, and I started focusing on MY kind of art... which turns out to be psychedelic, spiritual, and relatively abstract. And I also really, really like crayons.
So here, below the cut, are some of my drawings. Maybe it will inspire me to start making these again-- after all, my kids LOVE to color. They'd probably also love it if I joined them.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 01:23 pm (UTC)From:Well, you know I'm a fan of art in almost all its forms (won't go into details of my extremely unpopular opinion), but this is great AND super up my alley.
I used to worry a lot (and still do sometimes) that I haven't been doing much creatively/reading enough, yadda yadda what's wrong with me, but I realize everything has its own time. I think books, art supplies and musical instruments are always an investment, even if you won't enjoy all of it RIGHT NOW. It's a Life Library sort of thinking, but extended to Life Art Studio, I guess...?
Also airplane/train/whatever tickets, but those you should enjoy immediately, for obvious reasons.
no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 09:26 pm (UTC)From:It hasn't been time for me to read fiction this year, I've noticed. But I'm okay with that. I was burned out. And I have read a lot of good nonfiction!
no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 03:26 pm (UTC)From:Maybe I should make that my New Year's resolution.
no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 09:24 pm (UTC)From:I am pretty decent at trees, though, which is why the most complicated actual-figure-drawing in all that is a tree!
no subject
Date: 2012-11-21 01:55 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-21 10:58 pm (UTC)From: