How is an idea born? For you, what is inspiration?
That's difficult to explain. Its not the same every time. Sometimes you see something and that sparks an idea. Other times you might hear someone say a phrase and that starts the ball rolling. And sometimes, I can just just see a color and that gets me thinking about creating something.
Originally my ideas came from colourful fish seen whilst traveling around Australia.
My inspiration comes from ocean themes and flowers.
Words give birth to ideas. Ideas give birth to action. Action gives birth to creation. What gives birth to words? Energy. As a poet, for me, inspiration is the energy that compels one to write. Inspiration is everywhere. One needs to be still and silent in the middle of everything. She is there.
Man, it's like there's a stage in my brain and ideas just walk out and explain themselves. That's how it works most times. I can ask it questions and learn more about it, or it'll act out the details on it's own. If I write it down & tweak it, it starts to look like I had the idea. But I can't really think of any that didn't start out just drifting into my line of sight. Sometimes I'll get a visual & have to provide a context, sometimes it's the other way around.
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I am overloaded with inspiration the problem is not getting inspired its filtering it, evaluating what's interesting or good, and then investing the time and money on getting it right.
I will say however I am often inspired by animals, portraiture, other artists, designers and craftpeoples work (in exhibitions, museums, online, in books and magazines and in my network) and the everyday.
I've been told ideas can come from anything. And to be honest it really can. It sounds odd when you think about it. When you really sit down to force an awesome idea out it sometimes just doesn't work; the best ideas are sometimes developed through spontanious thought process conceived from the surrounding environment. Something that is natural and can not be forced.
I take deep inspiration from those artist who are truely great at what they do, both technically and creatively. I will always want to be as good or better than other artists and in general; people. It's my competitive nature that drives me to be better.
I see a face or a bird or animal, and I know I have to paint it. After that choice is made, I try to define what it is I want to say about that person or object. I try to develop a story or theme that will drive my imagination.
I use several photo references and research my ideas for accuracy and development. A good example is my painting "The Lost." I saw this boy from India (photo taken by a friend there); a street urchin. I fell in love with his face and the emotion. I researched and discovered that crows (house crows) in India are considered harbingers of death. They are everywhere. The painting came to life in my mind after that.
Usually the cast shadows from strong sunlight.
It really comes from all over. I'm inspired by other artists, nature, dreams, materials. Each piece comes from somewhere different.
Many times my inspiration is my materials. I'll look at an interesting gemstone and design a piece of jewelry around it. Other times the technique I'm using will help to determine how a piece will come out. If I'm fold forming, a lot of the process is the unknown of how that particular piece of metal will react to the folding.
A few of my pieces have come from dreams or meditation. My Dwarf Bowl and Freya's Folly are examples of this. It often takes me a long time to get the design just right so that it comes out similar to what I "saw" in my head. I usually have to work out new ways of putting things together or different paths to reach the desired effect. They've helped me grow as a maker.
And I look at other artists work and find inspiration there. Usually metal artists, but sometimes I'll see a line pattern or texture in some other art form and draw inspiration from that for my own pieces. Lately I've been influenced by jewelry from Calder and Art Smith and their work has inspired my collars I've been working on lately.
When nature inspires me, it's usually less direct. I'll see a pattern of fallen gum balls on my deck and want to use it in a piece. Or the quite cold of a snowstorm or the hot primalness of July will come out in a necklace. Sometimes just sitting outside and watching the vultures glide through the air will relax me and get my creative juices flowing again.
Basically, inspiration is all around me. Sometimes I don't see it and sometimes it overwhelms me. But it always seems to get me there in the end.   | | |
Songs, moments in life, books..etc, anything depressing seems to be the point of inspiration for me~ the point of sanity and insanity in everyday life is what inspires me the most. What is right and what is not makes me think and then I would want to try and draw it out~ express it somehow.
I mostly already have some vague idea about what I have in mind when I start a painting.
That's just a basic idea.
It differs.
Sometimes I get an idea about a person I met or saw.
Or sometimes I get an idea about something human or human interaction.
Like human violence, child abuse, solitude, war, etc.
I look for things I can use as motives in my painting.
I can't just simply copy a vase with flowers or a cow or dog or person.
That doesn't give me any inspiration at all.
Inspiration for me mostly comes from human interactions, what human beings do to each other.
That yields me emotions and my emotions mostly trigger my inspiration.
The inspiration shows itself while I work on my painting in the way I use my materials and colours and I compose the motives in to a composition on the canvas I like.
My idea has started a few years ago when a radio presenter asked for means to promote work of less fortuned artists from the east. At that time i could`t do anything to help them but now i think we made a start. Now we want to offer a online Gallery / Marketplace to artist from everywhere for promotional activities.
my idea is born in the strets
I am rather creative, so I have my head filled with ideas all the time.
My effort is to to get rid of ideas rather than having more of them. In that way I can focus on only a few "winning" strong ideas over being buried by an endless stream of them...
I use mainly two "idea filters":
1. A THEME: I try to paint themes: Pets, portraits, Vermeer, etc... I feel that a theme will ground very much the ideas and structure the work a lot...
2. THE PAINTABLE POSSIBILITY: I try to paint only what is paintable and simply discard the rest. Some concepts are ideal for some media and impossible for others. For example: It is very easy to show a moving train on a movie, much harder to do it on a static painting. Following that idea, some abstract concepts can be very difficult to present within a painting, so I will simply discard them...
I learned to crochet from my grandmother, the 3d shapes (baskets and later amigurumi) happened in my college days.
I'm not exactly sure how the "magic" happens, I sometimes pick up the yarn and tools thinking "this is going to be a Cthulhu" or "this is going to be a winged cat"... but sometimes I start by "asking the yarn what it wants to be..." or just starting and trying to have some idea before I get far enough into the head and face where I have to pick out eyes. Sometimes I just go "hmm, THESE eyes" and details like wings, tentacles, ears, will be added later as the form develops. |
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