Art stimulates and helps us to see our surrounding in a different light - what was at one time mundane, becomes tantalizing. This proved true in a recent walk in nyc where skyscrapers were the inspiration for "an eye-popping array of 10 sleek, streamlined, steel sculptures of buildings ranging from the Empire State to the Flatiron, will line Park Avenue from 54th Street to 67th Street, creating a zany, futuristic cityscape that could have been assembled from a Brobdingnagian erector set." Here are some examples:Follow this link for more information.
Julia Cameron's book The Artists Way suggests doing three things:1. Write three pages long hand as soon as you wake up.2. Walk daily to tap into your higher self.3. Take yourself and yourself only on an 'artists date'.The first two, I do daily however taking the time to take myself on an artist's date - whether it be going to a rug store to look at the color and weave of an oriental, to a movie, to an art exhibit or .... a store that showcases local artisans..... takes some conscious scheduling on my part.Last week I finally walked into Earth and Wears on 68 Main Street in Dallas, Pa. What an uplifting experience - seeing works by friends Kim Cappellini, Jean Adams and Skip Skenbach -meeting owner and potter extrodinaire Lyn Carey made me think... what took me so long? And to top it all off Lyn asked to carry some of my works - I'm in good company.
Eiffel Tower Study in red - one of fourIIt's true... a real french restaurant is coming to Wilkes-Barre! It's going in a reconverted bank building on Ross and South Main. I've been commissioned to supply the art work and am doing the Eiffel Tower in midnight blue, orange blue and green. The panels are being made - tall verticals - my favorite! I'm so excited.....!!
I recently collaborated with my sister who just launched her website gROwWithRobin.com - we co-created with her logo and home page. Pretty neat to do projects with my sisters - actually, it's pretty neat to do anything with my sisters......
Here is juxtaposition - my most favorite four legged friend getting snowed upon outside my studio while I paint fish and turtles of Grand Cayman for one very lucky person to hand deliver to Kennedy Gallery......
It's a new year - I'm in a new studio... and I have lots and lots of empty canvases and surfaces waiting ..... this is the hardest part of the process - there is a whole ritual of ridiculous behavior which goes on before settling down and looking at that blank surface square in the face and ... beginning. My Molskine journals pave the way... always.
