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NewsletterBeauty or Not? Mixed Media Experimentation
I have been busy these days with many things on my list of to do’s, but not busy at the same time because I cannot get myself to finish anything. Although I have great plans in my mind, I wasn’t able to start up properly. Finally, going through my RSS feeds this week, a few things together sparked me up.
Interesting enough, it all started from Inspire Me Thursday. An image of Mademoiselle Rivière was offered up for download, with an open prompt to do whatever with it. I was struck by the image and recent thoughts about the role of women in today’s society. How so much has changed and not changed. Coincidentally there’s also a woman challenge from Italy on Sunday and the theme this month on Creative Every Day is to connect. Somehow all those ideas together struck a chord within me and I decided I had to do something. But what to do?
I jumped in completely unplanned and created something without knowing what the outcome would be. No thought of composition or the end result…just do it! Somehow it felt like the right path to take, to reconnect with myself and the freedom of creativity. Give myself the freedom to go wherever my hands took me. It was liberating to not have to do something for a client, to not do something for the purpose of creating products…instead just having fun creating. I suppose we all do this in journaling and doodling, but usually I don’t share that type of stuff.
I decided I have to share, because all this could be inspiring to others and in the spirit of community and connecting – sharing your work means creating a dialogue with your blog visitors. Even if I can’t say in words how I feel or communicate exactly what I am thinking in proper prose, perhaps my work will demonstrate better. A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Posted on October 28, 2009 at 11:22 am | inspiration
Hello fellow explorers and creative minds! My name is Linda, aka tortagialla - a nickname my adorable husband dubbed me meaning "yellow cake" in Italian. I'm your not-so-typical Californian girl who took the plunge and moved to the Tuscan hills of Italy. Now I'm living my dream designing, illustrating and crafting full-time. You can contact me via email linda [!at] tortagialla [!dot] com
An intriguing interpretation of the picture!
Thanks for your comment!
Tortagialla, thank you for your kind comment. Wow Italia! how wonderful. I’ll be visiting your blog often. Cio : )
Carmen
Thanks for visiting my blog!
This is very thought provoking. It is so nice to just create without any plan or reason. Thanks for sharing.
Glad I can provoke some interesting thoughts! Thanks for visiting!
La liberta’ di creare ..solo per se’ stessi!! SOno d’accordissimo con te!
Grazie! Devo provarlo più spesso!
all of my best projects come from un-planned messiness and throwing just whatever together! i love it! beautiful!
love + luck + bliss,
missysue xox
P.S. i also have a problem with finishing things lately, lol
Nice to know I’m not alone…although I am looking forward to Art Every Day Month http://creativeeveryday.com/art-every-day-month because it’ll be good to have a bit of a push sometimes.
Very interesting interpretation. I like the easy flow of your lines.
Thank you for your wonderful comment, I appreciate it!
Baby steps worked for me too! You have to go at your own pace otherwise you will be overwhelmed.
Thanks for your lovely comment
Your picture is great- very haunting, I’m glad your creative spirit has surfaced again.
x Em
Thanks for the encouragement Emma!
so glad this week’s theme offered up some inspiration — I love your thoughts on what inspired this. That’s the best kind of creativity in my opinion, when you feel free and can get lost in the process of it all. thanks for sharing!
Thank you for inspiring all of us!
Bellissima interpretazione e ottima realizzazione.
Ciao ciao
Grazie!
i love working in this way and i think it’s wonderful that you shared your work here. the feeling comes across and it’s powerful!
Thank you for your comment…looking forward to Art every day Month and sharing more spontaneity!