Interview with an Artist
This week in my artist's blogging group, we're doing something a bit different and answering a series of questions, same ones for everyone. I've read a couple of blogs already, and I'm starting to think we may be all peas in the same pod! Here then, are the questions and my answers:
1. What's your day job? This is my day job! I'm a full time artist- 24/7- always coming up with new things to work on, fun things to create and sell, whether it's a huge full room mural, or a tiny handpainted pin.
2. How do you define Creativity? How does it look in your life? It looks pretty messy! I generally have several different things I am working on simultaneously- ATC's, collages, paintings, seedlings for the garden, computer projects, beaded jewelry, hand painted and colored fabrics, stuff to build, furniture to paint, gardening to do. I'm not happy unless I'm covered either in paint or garden soil. The house cleans up pretty well though, when I get to it.
3. What allows you to be the most creative? Give me a problem and I just gotta solve it, find a way to make it work. I suppose thats the engineer in me (thanks, Dad) that needs to come out.
4. When did you start blogging? What prompted you to start? I started blogging in November of 2005 as a way to practice html as well as a way to display some of my more recent artwork and designs outside of my web site. Now I enjoy the challenge of finding new bloggers to communicate with, and getting more readers to come visit my blog. I've discovered I just love to write, and this lets me publish the things I write about.
5. Who/what are your major influences and inspirations in your blogging? I try to maintain a positive outlook in all my blogs- no-one wants to read about someone's problems and see a bunch of whining, so you won't see any of that here. I am inspired by the world around me and by God's creation.
6. How does blogging reflect (and/or feed) your creativity? I have several blogs, for all of my different interests and creative outlets, and I love to visit other's blogs, looking for new things to add, links to make, and how others are inspired. There are links to all of them in the sidebar.
1. What's your day job? This is my day job! I'm a full time artist- 24/7- always coming up with new things to work on, fun things to create and sell, whether it's a huge full room mural, or a tiny handpainted pin.
2. How do you define Creativity? How does it look in your life? It looks pretty messy! I generally have several different things I am working on simultaneously- ATC's, collages, paintings, seedlings for the garden, computer projects, beaded jewelry, hand painted and colored fabrics, stuff to build, furniture to paint, gardening to do. I'm not happy unless I'm covered either in paint or garden soil. The house cleans up pretty well though, when I get to it.
3. What allows you to be the most creative? Give me a problem and I just gotta solve it, find a way to make it work. I suppose thats the engineer in me (thanks, Dad) that needs to come out.
4. When did you start blogging? What prompted you to start? I started blogging in November of 2005 as a way to practice html as well as a way to display some of my more recent artwork and designs outside of my web site. Now I enjoy the challenge of finding new bloggers to communicate with, and getting more readers to come visit my blog. I've discovered I just love to write, and this lets me publish the things I write about.
5. Who/what are your major influences and inspirations in your blogging? I try to maintain a positive outlook in all my blogs- no-one wants to read about someone's problems and see a bunch of whining, so you won't see any of that here. I am inspired by the world around me and by God's creation.
6. How does blogging reflect (and/or feed) your creativity? I have several blogs, for all of my different interests and creative outlets, and I love to visit other's blogs, looking for new things to add, links to make, and how others are inspired. There are links to all of them in the sidebar.
posted by Ellen Leigh at 4:01 PM
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