Monday inspiration~Community

Hello everyone!  This is my latest daily drawing.  I did do other drawings this week, but they were on commission so I don't want to share them here.  I also did a bit of designing for a class I am in.

This is a logo that I designed for myself that I may or may not actually use.  The requirements were very restricting so if I had free reign I might actually make something quite different.  Nontheless, I like it!  I hope you do too.  I also made letterhead, an envelope, and business cards to go with it as sort of an identity package.

So yes, hard at work.  Keeping up the pace.  Nice to be prolific!  Now, back to that drawing I showed you earlier....

I've just been showing you these drawings without really telling you that sometimes I AM thinking of something when I draw them.  Other times, I think of something after I draw it, sort of find a hidden significance.  So what about the one above you ask?  Well, I was thinking about what it means to live in relationship to others, in a true loving community.  How real communion with someone(s) is never a diminishing experience.  It is a place where all parties involved can express themselves fully because they are loved and safe.  Out of that fulness comes a true connection.  The rainbow is an image of individual colors that are clearly visible but merge with each other to become even more hues.  So when we connect with others in this healthy way, we can be more, do more than we could on our own.  I would hope that all of my close relationships are this way.  Of course there are things that you give up, things like total autonomy and personal space, but those should always be freely and generously given believing in exponential return, not begrudgingly. 

So as I sit in front of this glowing box plucking away at little black squares with letters on them, I am reminded that HERE, on this blog, I am building community.  To the extent which I am transparent and genuine, I am creating a space to express my genuine self to others.  An opportunity to connect to my would-be tribe of sorts.  And you, my reader, are invited to witness (and participate, if you wish) as I fumble my way along the path of "artist".  My triumphs and struggles become collective and potentially transforming in a way that is greater than if I kept it all to myself.  And for this great honor, I THANK YOU!!!

Be inspired!

Monday Inspiration

My last two posts, I've been sharing my daily drawings with you, giving you a glimpse into some of my creative endeavors.  I did do more this week, but really only one I care to share.

Today I will unveil something exciting and new......DESIGN SCHOOL!!!!  For the past five months,  I have been working through a graphic design program at Sessions College for Professional Design.  The program is out of New York and is totally online (no brick and mortar campus, as they say).  So far I am really enjoying it and getting a lot out of it.  I completed a couple of Photoshop classes, Illustrator and now I'm on to Indesign.  These are my favorite projects:

An invitation front and back.

My version of an ipod. Cute no?

I made the restaurant and menu items up too. Wish it was real. Yum.

Concert poster.  Have you heard him?  He's a mad genius.  My favorite kind of person.

So, it feels like I'm coming along nicely with all of this.  Don't really know where it's going to land me.  We shall see.  For now I'm just trying to enjoy the journey.  Hope you are too.  See you next week!!

Monday Inspiration

I did more of my automatic drawings this week.

For those of you who hadn't tuned in to last week's post: these are small, quick, impromptu drawings that I try to do everyday.  Kind of a confidence builder as I tend to get stymied by perfectionism. 

An exercise in letting go if you will.

Now I am starting to wonder what I can do with them.  Notecards?  Pillows?  I don't know.  Just sort of kicking ideas around in my head.  Experimenting and exploring posssibilities.

What do you think I should do with these? 

Monday Inspiration

My dear blogosphere friends.  I know that all two of you are deeply disappointed that I have failed to post my Monday Inspirations for the past two weeks and that now I am finally posting a Monday Inspiration so late on a Monday that you are likely to not even notice it until Tuesday.  Indeed, I am remorseful. 

Today's inspiration is....ME!!  MIO!  I have been doing some abstract automatic drawings lately. 

They are small so they don't take long. 

 I use a sharpie and a few pastels so I don't overthink it.  I am a big overthinker.

 I just doodle with little or no idea of what I am making. 

 The cool thing is, this approach is somehow completely by-passing my inner critic. 

 It doesn't even bother showing up. 

The end result is I get to play.  That feels good.  That's why I liked art to begin with.

I realize these pictures are not perfect.  I just really wanted to share these with you.  Whoever you are.

That's me peeking from behind this one.  A personal fave.

And another.

I want to make this one into a leather applique.  Maybe for a purse.

I realize this is an art blog and this is the first time I have actually posted any of my art. 

So, it took me a while to warm up, I guess.  Who knows, maybe I'll do one every day and  then post it.  Some of these would make cool paintings too.  It wouldn't hurt my feelings if you begged me to make you a copy of one.   Just saying.  Ok peeps, I'm tired.  Be inspired!!