TEXT: Blogging - 17/12/11
Right now I am so into the thought of blogging, I mean WHAT AN INCREDIBLE IDEA! For artists especially, it is lovely for people like myself to find out that these artists are actually real life people with real life sense of humours. LOVELY. It also makes me realise that they are in fact NOT non-stop creative masterminds and I have to strive to be like that, they are normal and I can be much more like that! It puts one at ease.
I should write more things on my twitter but it just seems a bit more silly if I don't have a phone that lets me do it, because I'd be running home to write it all up in one go... so maybe I should get a proper blogspot... like write proper thoughts down about my work or thoughts about my thoughts about my work, you know?
Anyhow, I feel I must write something down about how I'm feeling about my work at this point. I really like illustration. Like a lot, perhaps I like the artists that illustrate more than I actually like their illustrations. I read so many more things about them via blogs and magazine articles. I really like how they're so into their work. They get wrapped up in their own self projects that it seems like no sensible thoughts about rent or what food they can afford appears to come into their thoughts at all, or even matters to them. And how they sell their work, through so many means! I mean, I found one artist who sells brooches of her work...BROOCHES! It's crazy yet plain genius at the same time. I read about her in 'Oh Comely' Magazine (Laura Callaghan) and she said that she did that so that it felt ok for her to go back to do her normal water colours on paper, the stuff she loves to do. Ahh just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. There's now so much pressure to get your images industry standard and to be honest I don't want my images to be industry standard. I really like that worn loved feel that you get when you hold the images in your hands. And i HATE just having an image as that, an image. I wanna do something with it and make it beautiful.
