Saturday, July 9, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Three Sisters Marketplace - Shops
Three Sisters Marketplace - Shops: "Check out this incredible Shop at Three Sisters' Marketplace! See this artisan's crafts for sale online and also their local classes, workshops and events. ...Fun for Fishermen with "Fish Sticks" Mobile/Chimes!"
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Making the Move to July
July...for some the mid-point of the year...For me that is not always true. The calendar year is not always January to December. I have many calendars, I suppose-there is the 'business calendar', the 'school year calendar', the 'art show calendar', the 'art guild calendar', the 'spring' calendar (also, summer, fall, and winter) and then there is the 'artist's calendar'.
As with so many creative people, MY calendar does not recognize months, days (or even years by this time of my life). I am motivated by urge...by mood...by request...by suggestion...by weather, temperature and comfort. You will see my motivation in the work I produce (or do not). Am I apologetic? Not anymore. Oh, I used to search for the whys and wherefores of my productivity, but I've outgrown the need to explain.
Have I become 'of age'? No, I don't think any artist really does that. I think we never want to reach that point because if we did we would no longer create anything different from what we've done before. We would stop reading what others say, we would stop looking at what others paint, we would stop considering what might happen if... We would no longer be curious about the world around us or the differences in artistic expression-be it materials or methods. And really! what sort of creative persons would we be if we were no longer curious?!
So, if I tell you I've taken a day off or frittered away a month of days you must understand that the mood must have been right for doing so, or the weather wrong for doing otherwise...or one of those other 'artistic' things!
I hope that you are doing what seems 'right' for you...right this moment and all those future moments that July will bring.
As with so many creative people, MY calendar does not recognize months, days (or even years by this time of my life). I am motivated by urge...by mood...by request...by suggestion...by weather, temperature and comfort. You will see my motivation in the work I produce (or do not). Am I apologetic? Not anymore. Oh, I used to search for the whys and wherefores of my productivity, but I've outgrown the need to explain.
Have I become 'of age'? No, I don't think any artist really does that. I think we never want to reach that point because if we did we would no longer create anything different from what we've done before. We would stop reading what others say, we would stop looking at what others paint, we would stop considering what might happen if... We would no longer be curious about the world around us or the differences in artistic expression-be it materials or methods. And really! what sort of creative persons would we be if we were no longer curious?!
So, if I tell you I've taken a day off or frittered away a month of days you must understand that the mood must have been right for doing so, or the weather wrong for doing otherwise...or one of those other 'artistic' things!
I hope that you are doing what seems 'right' for you...right this moment and all those future moments that July will bring.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Three Sisters Marketplace - Shops
Three Sisters Marketplace - Shops: "Check out this incredible Shop at Three Sisters' Marketplace! See this artisan's crafts for sale online and also their local classes, workshops and events."
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Stepping Out of Season
This year has been a particularly difficult one to define when it comes to creativity in my Studio. Normally winter is very productive for me. It was not this year. At least not in the sense that I consider normal. New ideas and their prototypes begin in the Winter ...This year the difference was that I worked 'outside' my Studio. I have done more Community interaction -on behalf of Art, Art Promotion and especially for Teaching this coming Summer.
Since Spring has been as abnormal as my Winter was the work I do outside has been stymied!
This is the time that I put my prototypes and ideas on Barnwood, the days when I work outside sanding, sealing and drilling. This is the time when I sit outside on my deck and draw Spring. Normally.
I am now 'stealing' workdays from other places...housework time, grocery shopping, writing, and sad to say, I'm behind schedule...WAY behind! I now have to deal with a CALENDAR as well! Events are set and the shuffle has begun. Setting aside 'idea time' bothers me. Art cannot flourish without actively pursuing ideas and making them happen.
BUT, another thought lurks in the back of my mind...Please! Don't spread it around :)... I'm getting old - Have I just slowed down and missed a few Winter days with their creative urges? Did I oversleep and fail to adjust to Spring? Did I just procrastinate and let the time slip by? I think I don't really want to hear the answers, but I'll freely admit to them. So, without further ado I will make a step in the right direction. When I step out of Spring it will be into a Summer filled with late-bloomers...New, touched by the weather, affected in some way by age...but done - by ME.
May your Spring end with success and fulfillment of original ideas and your Summer begin with sunshine and gentle breezes!
Since Spring has been as abnormal as my Winter was the work I do outside has been stymied!
This is the time that I put my prototypes and ideas on Barnwood, the days when I work outside sanding, sealing and drilling. This is the time when I sit outside on my deck and draw Spring. Normally.
I am now 'stealing' workdays from other places...housework time, grocery shopping, writing, and sad to say, I'm behind schedule...WAY behind! I now have to deal with a CALENDAR as well! Events are set and the shuffle has begun. Setting aside 'idea time' bothers me. Art cannot flourish without actively pursuing ideas and making them happen.
BUT, another thought lurks in the back of my mind...Please! Don't spread it around :)... I'm getting old - Have I just slowed down and missed a few Winter days with their creative urges? Did I oversleep and fail to adjust to Spring? Did I just procrastinate and let the time slip by? I think I don't really want to hear the answers, but I'll freely admit to them. So, without further ado I will make a step in the right direction. When I step out of Spring it will be into a Summer filled with late-bloomers...New, touched by the weather, affected in some way by age...but done - by ME.
May your Spring end with success and fulfillment of original ideas and your Summer begin with sunshine and gentle breezes!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Welcome to the Studio!
2011 has begun with many unfinished projects...Ordinarily I would find this to be unacceptable but 2010 was NOT an ordinary year. I connected to many artists and friends the world over...but I'm not finished. I have widened my community activities to include administrating the Webster County Creative Artists' Guild Facebook Page, interaction in the Downtown Merchants Association, a boutique which represents my Art and Sculpture: Local Unique, Art & Antique, a place where I can teach my workshops: Christenberry's Tea Room, a community blog site: n2marshfield.com, a gallery in Springfield, MO where I show my paintings: Creative Concepts, Art and Craft Shows too numerous to mention, our town's First Annual Downtown Art Walk, and now I have embarked on a journey into the world of networking online: indiepublic, theartinsider, ArtFire, FestivalNetworkOnline, and ArtfulVision.com. I left the old year with great expectations and a new Facebook artist page: Kathleen Neff's inNOVAtions Studio and this fledgling blogspot. Please feel welcome to visit and view my Art. There will be many more adjustments made...more of the unfinished business that I'm so glad to have gone with me into the New Year!
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