09.06.08

Art Journal… Day 5

Posted in Art Journal, Main at 8:04 pm by carrie



My favorite colors… with line drawings on top. The little journal entry on the left is a reminder of the following…

  • Don’t think of making everything perfect… it’s not going to happen, & that’s okay!
  • If you want to draw 10 times as well, you have to draw 10 times as much!
  • A “masterpiece” is one in a thousand… so make a thousand!
  • “You are over thinking it!” Jules tells me as I’m trying to animate a conveyor belt…
  • The good thing about a book is that you have to focus on the page in front of you… if you turn it, the pages will stick together. You can’t go forward or back, you have to concentrate, accept and take care of the art challenge at hand. Once you are done with this page, it has a chance to dry, you turn the page… forgetting it because the next task has been presented. It’s sort of like life :)
  • There’s a drawing of a lizard with a thought bubble. He’s thinking of a brain. Use that lizard brain… let go and draw! hehe

So, the line drawings are of the office supplies I had laying around… a tape gun, a glue gun, some scissors, a hole puncher, a stapler with loose staples and a single scotch tape dispenser.

See, you are surrounded by art in everyday objects! :)

4 Comments »

  1. lucy said,

    September 7, 2008 at 6:54 am

    I like the sentiment, a masterpiece is one in a thousand, so make a thousand!! It makes sense, even without a masterpiece-if artists didn’t create because they were afraid of making something less then perfect, the world would have so many fewer beautiful and wonderful pieces. I need to get back in my journal.I’ve used a sketch book more recently when planning out ideas for my new paintings and I like the ritual of laying down my thoughts in a place I can go back to time and time again to refer to and refine along the way.

  2. Art Tea Life said,

    September 7, 2008 at 11:31 am

    yehhh, its sort of like life ! laughing.

    LOVE THESE COLORS

    Love to see your journal and that you are doing art.

    Go VAB Go !

    but wait….conveyor belt ? I can’t even spell it ….how DO you draw it ?

  3. Art Tea Life said,

    September 7, 2008 at 11:32 am

    dots ! I LIKE THE DOTS !

  4. Art Tea Life said,

    September 7, 2008 at 11:32 am

    …and the staples…I like the staples.

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