Need some artistic inspiration

[Rising Phoenix]

haven't painted in weeks....anything you can post that may make a spark in my sleepy little brain would be much appreciated....a poem, picture, limmerick...you guys have really helped me out in the past with this, so lets see what kind of magic we can make today, shall we.....thanks

[Heidi]

1. How about some Gil Scott Heron?

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc

Good painting vibes, Rising Phoenix! :hug: I'm painting today, too! :bounce:

[Rising Phoenix]

2. thanks

what are you going to paint? medium, subject.....

[Heidi]

5. :-)

I've just begun a series of 12 mixed media painted collages focusing on women as sisters. I have a small group exhibit opening at Easter and it feels like I'm already running out of time. :scared:

You? (Love your work, gf! :thumbsup: )

[Rising Phoenix]

6. very interesting.... I'd love to see it when you are finished

I think sisterhood is quite possibly the most important relationship in the world.....

I have no idea what I am going to paint yet.....my sister wants a monet for her birthday....in a week, but I kinda want to do something original today....

and thanks

[taterguy]

3. How about a random farming implement?

[Rising Phoenix]

4. its kinda pretty

nice lines, thanks

[Indi Guy]

7. See what you can do with this...

(May your visual artwork blend with my passion for spoken word.)

Salt air...

I just stepped outside on a humid night
For an moment, I thought I smelled the sea
I didn't know I missed the salt air
But for an instant, I was on the beach

I was a kid, adolescent & adult at once
playing in the sand, dreaming seafaring dreams & sailing

I was tasting the spray while gazing at the vast, warm & orange
Sun-lit line where the ocean meets sky...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7339223

[Rising Phoenix]

8. beautiful, thank you

maybe an abstract seaside painting....oil

[Indi Guy]

15. Please read deeper..

I don't want my thoughts to be relegated to a generic oil seascape (and you don't want to paint one). Anyone can paint a simple seascape with words & pigment. What I'm sharing here is my honest experience in an instant, which spans layers of time.

If you capture time as the focus (maybe putting the kid, adolescent & adult in the foreground) the implied background (whatever you decide it to be) will be moot.

If I were born a farmer, I could just as easily have written about missing the smell of manuer:


Salt air...

I just stepped outside on a humid night
For an moment, I thought I smelled the sea
I didn't know I missed the salt air
But for an instant, I was on the beach

I was a kid, adolescent & adult at once
playing in the sand, dreaming seafaring dreams & sailing

I was tasting the spray while gazing at the vast, warm & orange
Sun-lit line where the ocean meets sky...

[Indi Guy]

16. Self delete -- dupe

[Rising Phoenix]

17. you misunderstood my intentions

I don't so generic landscapes.....no seaside views, no figure off in the distance.....it would be abstract....colors, textures, and lines, that remind me of how your poem made me feel....but in my head....it would always be a seascape, because it would remind me of your words....your poem is beautiful and I know it not just about the sea and its sights and smells....its about you

[Indi Guy]

18. I'm sorry I misread you...

Thank you for explaining.

The reason I reacted the way I did is because I'm tired of people taking off on the first image I create, to the exclusion of the point I want to make -- and then I went off & did the very same thing to you.


Please accept my apology.

[Rising Phoenix]

20. no need to apologize

I don't think I made myself clear....if I paint your poem, I'll be sure to send you a pic..... :hi:

[Callalily]

9. Sometimes one can

get inspired from another artists work. I just discovered Valerie Zimany. Check out her website. Her work is stunning. She's quite a spectacular crafts person, an excellent artist.

Hope this helps, and if not, it's a nice distraction.

http://www.valeriezimany.com/

[Rising Phoenix]

11. very interesting

I often get inspired by other artists work and go through my art books for inspiration sometimes....

[YankeyMCC]

10. I. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET

Once more, O Mountains of the North, unveil
Your brows, and lay your cloudy mantles by
And once more, ere the eyes that seek ye fail,
Uplift against the blue walls of the sky
Your mighty shapes, and let the sunshine weave
Its golden net-work in your belting woods,
Smile down in rainbows from your falling floods,
And on your kingly brows at morn and eve
Set crowns of fire! So shall my soul receive
Haply the secret of your calm and strength,
Your unforgotten beauty interfuse
My common life, your glorious shapes and hues
And sun-dropped splendors at my bidding come,
Loom vast through dreams, and stretch in billowy length
From the sea-level of my lowland home!

They rise before me! Last night's thunder-gust
Roared not in vain: for where its lightnings thrust
Their tongues of fire, the great peaks seem so near,
Burned clean of mist, so starkly bold and clear,
I almost pause the wind in the pines to hear,
The loose rock's fall, the steps of browsing deer.
The clouds that shattered on yon slide-worn walls
And splintered on the rocks their spears of rain
Have set in play a thousand waterfalls,
Making the dusk and silence of the woods
Glad with the laughter of the chasing floods,
And luminous with blown spray and silver gleams,
While, in the vales below, the dry-lipped streams
Sing to the freshened meadow-lands again.
So, let me hope, the battle-storm that beats
The land with hail and fire may pass away
With its spent thunders at the break of day,
Like last night's clouds, and leave, as it retreats,
A greener earth and fairer sky behind,
Blown crystal-clear by Freedom's Northern wind!

By John Greenleaf Whittier

[Rising Phoenix]

12. thank you

[taterguy]

13. A pic of my wife

She's the speck in the clouds, skydiving for the first time on her 40th birthday

[Rising Phoenix]

14. cool

[RetroLounge]

19. Change mediums for a while.

Try drawing, writing, sculpture, collage work, singing...

Then come back to painting.

:hi:

RL

[Rising Phoenix]

21. good idea

I haven't done charcoal in a while.....and I love sculpting, though I suck at it....don't do it enough

you don't want to hear me sing....lol

I'll keep you posted.

:hi: