In this feature, each month artists share one thing that excites them creatively.
One key piece to support healthy, productive creativity is stimulating inputs. What kinds of things stimulate the creative centers of the brain? What kind of inputs stimulate us visually? Emotionally? Spiritually? Mentally? Physically?
I’d really like to know, what’s one thing that fills your creative cup? Share with us in the comment section below.
What Inspires You?
Jonnie Chrystal
What inspires me?
I am inspired these days by animals. Birds occupied a lot of my time last year. Horses seem to be up at the moment. And I am working in pastels, so my work is becoming more and more painterly, a look I like a lot. Don’t like to get too tight or prissy. Also work hard to give the animals their own aspect and not project any coyness onto them. I’ll leave that to the greeting card folks.
Jonnie Chrystal
Blog: http://cowwoman.blogspot.com
What Inspires You?
Sioux George
I am inspired by the places we visit. Volcanic stone used in mosaics in Azores. Detail in ancient structres in Scotland. Advertising signs in Dublin. Chain mail and armor detail in the Tower of London. Man hole covers, doorways, and wandering the streets in Honfleur, France.
Sioux George
Collaboration with other artists inspires…appreciating each other’s work, esthetic, inspirations, and creativity inspires me. Will be collaboratively installing a show with another artist in September 2012 at the Marshall Visual Art Center, Marshall, TX.
Love that! Me, too. And congratulations on the exhibition. Bravo!
Thank you…I appreciate your comments…life is good~~~
Californian oaks inspire me. They are so unlike the oaks of England, where I came from, and I confess I first thought they were ugly. I now marvel at the contorted limbs of the older generation, and am encouraged by the energy and optimism of the new comers as they thrust their scrawny branches toward the sun. One year our local oaks were devastated by leaf eating moths, I couldn’t beIeve they would survive and wondered at the calm of the experts. Sure enough, the following year their branches were once again sprouting healthy leaves. I am not aware of other species of trees doing this.
There is a story to tell in these fine trees, I would like to try to tell it.
Anita, this is beuatiful what you have written about the California Oaks. And inspiring to me, too. Their resilience is a good teaching for me today as I am dealing with a foot injury. It helps to remember we can recover and be whole again.