tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post5916849202811213874..comments2024-03-27T14:52:47.190-07:00Comments on Idaho Beauty's Creative Journey: Heat & SmokeThe Idaho Beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09979439849662755082noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-72856543567530730762017-08-16T20:57:25.571-07:002017-08-16T20:57:25.571-07:00No apologies needed, Lucia. I'm a bit behind o...No apologies needed, Lucia. I'm a bit behind on my blog reading myself! Yes, the air is much better now and I've been able to take my usual daily walks all week. Very nice. :-) And yes, inspiration generator is indeed a great concept!The Idaho Beautyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09979439849662755082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-89348096788819917662017-08-16T18:46:55.647-07:002017-08-16T18:46:55.647-07:00Inspiration generator... I liked this concept!
I h...Inspiration generator... I liked this concept!<br />I hope the quality of the air is better now. Sorry I have read your post only today.Lucia Sasakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08698589553453660688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-38434058287187709062017-08-15T12:42:36.641-07:002017-08-15T12:42:36.641-07:00Sheila I do agree about the different feel of draw...Sheila I do agree about the different feel of drawing on paper, that lovely diverse stuff. All the delights of different pencils, pens, sticks on different kinds of surface. I do enjoy it when I do it - just as I still very much enjoy writing old fashioned letters and cards to friends - pen on paper.<br /><br />I also agree so much about the surprises and delights that looking at previous work can give. I'm a great believer in factoring in the setting aside of ideas and developments for time to work its way into our perception and appreciation - or otherwise - of what's there. As part of my great sort-out and clear-out of stuff I have been going through ancient drawings, designs, trial pieces, etc., and I have been pleased to find quite a few bits and pieces which deserve further development now. And quite a great deal that has gone straight into the waste recycling!Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-50460721614840108452017-08-13T15:44:54.520-07:002017-08-13T15:44:54.520-07:00Olga, I so enjoy your in-depth comments, and you h...Olga, I so enjoy your in-depth comments, and you have put me to thinking (more) too. My use of a sketchbook has always been sporadic, and it has only been recently that I've moved to this kind of sketching of the real world as it were. Before that, I took many more photos, like you, thinking of them as references, and that photo taking certainly did improve my "seeing" and especially my composition skills. But I've found that picking up pen or pencil to work out ideas or reproduce something in front of me taps into a different place in my brain and a different set of skills appear to be emerging. Whether or not it is improving my ideas for textile work I cannot say yet, but I suspect it is.<br /><br />I know there are many sketchers who have started drawing on their ipads ala David Hockney. They find it convenient when they are out and about, or they are people already doing design work on the computer so it is a familiar medium. I've given it a small go and am a fish out of water, too steep of a learning curve for me, and I only find myself frustrated and longing to make it work like others have. But it doesn't give me the same feeling as sketching on paper, although maybe with time it would. I certainly can lose myself for hours using software filters to manipulate photos that emerge as complex designs I'd never discover with sketching. A lot of recent studies though are concluding that there are many things we do better, or are stored in our brain better when we put pen or pencil to paper rather than use keyboard (and perhaps graphic pad too?) to put text and images on a screen.<br /><br />Since I have no skills as you have with designing with software, I can't say whether it would be different for you if you played on paper with pencil instead. You could give it a try if you truly feel like you are perhaps spinning your wheels. It might shake something loose. But I wouldn't beat myself up over the fact that you have not established a sketchbook habit. It's probably like daily journaling, some people are drawn to it and for others it's hit or miss or even a chore. As I said, I've been sporadic with my use of sketchbooks, but I have to admit, when I page through some of the early ones where I was working out design ideas, I am often surprised at what I find there, and wonder why I never followed through on some of them which now appear to have so much promise.<br /><br />Last night a cold front moved through, dropping our temps by a good 20 degrees, and it rained...RAINED today for the first time since the end of June. The air has cleared and I'm off for a walk. :-)The Idaho Beautyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09979439849662755082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-68413522998189917612017-08-10T02:41:13.727-07:002017-08-10T02:41:13.727-07:00Sheila you ask intriguing questions about sketchin...Sheila you ask intriguing questions about sketching, looking, visual memory, etc. It all provokes lots of thinking.<br />I'm someone who does lots of looking, but almost no sketching. I have to think things through in my mind's eye before I start on a design. I suppose that my camera is a kind of sketchbook, gathering elements from the world to become pieces of my amalgam. I have always felt vaguely inadequate when I read or hear that artists should have sketchbooks from which to develop ideas for work. Inadequate because perhaps I don't have the discipline/interest to keep up a sketchbook; but certainly I seem never to be short of ideas.<br />But maybe those ideas would develop better if I did sketch. Certainly at present I do feel a wee bit in the doldrums, that I'm not moving forward - just producing more of the same. You have set me thinking.<br /><br />As for your question about why folks don't ask about time and sketching, I think it's because either they know what sketching involves, or they don't and just make a judgment that a detailed drawing must take a long time, and a loose one must be quick.<br /><br />I hope you'll be able to breathe outdoors again soon, but delighted that out of your confinement you have set our brain cells buzzing.<br />Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19193398.post-28188490262456840862017-08-09T04:21:29.399-07:002017-08-09T04:21:29.399-07:00Yikes….the unhealthy air quality must be terrible ...Yikes….the unhealthy air quality must be terrible for you! However, you seem to be using the summer heat to your advantage with the dyeing you’ve undertaken….anxious to see your results.The Inside Storihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00984299652568523595noreply@blogger.com