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Topic:  Art Candy (How do you feed your art?

1/28/2013

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Where do your art ideas come from?  How do you stimulate your artistic vision?  Do you explore new processes or materials to help your creative process?

I use "art candy" to foster new concepts.  I go to galleries, museums and read art books for inspiration.  Daydreaming works too - perhaps just a few moments of daydreaming can unlock your creative flow.

But if you've tried these things, and you're still feeling stuck - a victim of "artist block" - you might find that using new art materials can help you break out of your mold.

For example, someone brought some yupo (a substrate material) into a painting group I belong to.  Since yupo is waterproof and it rains so much in Oregon, I immediately saw rain merging with paint.  I now go outdoors in the rain and create Oregon rain paintings.

What liberates your artistic vision?  Please feel free to share your "art candy" experiences on this blog.

Pam Serra-Wenz
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Maureen link
1/30/2013 04:15:32 am

Seeing others' art and reading about how other artists do their art--such as yourself--inspires me the most. What you/they do makes me want to broaden my range of media and skills so that I can take my art to even greater heights. Your rain paintings inspire me to want to play. I've created some interesting pieces with ink on wet water color paper...now I must try this as well. Thank you for the inspiration and for sharing.

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Pam Serra-Wenz
1/30/2013 04:18:45 am

Maureen,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this blog. It gives us a chance to reflect on what moves us in our artistic directions. I especially loved your comment about play.

Pam

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