Saturday, January 22, 2011

हेल्प इवे बीन हच्केद और phished


This is to all my FB friends and family. Ive been totally blocked out of FB due to something happening, I dont know what or who. Ive been working on this for 2 days and there is nothing I can do. Ive tried everything. FB help has blocked me! Im hoping somebody will read this and have an answer. I cant get to my fan pages either. Can someone email me at huntress888@cox.net if they think they can help. I might be forced to start totally over as a new identity and lose all my friends Ive put so much time and work into. This is so totally f'd. My year has been foreclosure, bankruptsy, cancer, moving and now this. My FB friends have helped me through this and now thats gone. Ive either been hacked or phished. HELP!!!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

लैटर तो अ Friend


This is a response I wrote to a friend who wanted some ideas and advice on art. I thought it would make a good blog.
"Color wouldnt be needed, just a little darker beige than the backround color. But if you want a color, lavender or violet would be nice.
What Ive found is the proper anything doesnt matter. Tooth, grade of paper, medium, or even mixing mediums that you wouldnt even think of mixing. If your paper buckles, you can still work with it and it will have a different effect. You could use salt, stamp over it, or remove bits of color. If the paper has more tooth than you want, you can paint under the pencil or over it with watercolor or acrylic. There is no limits to the combinations. This is a good way to use up stuff you have laying around the house that you would otherwise throw away. Approach it like a child would with the spirit of experimentation. They dont know what the "correct" way is. They just do it.
Your Tabby drawing is not a waste. You could highlight parts with acrylic paint or frame bits of it, the parts you really like, to make a collage or frame it as a miniature.
One way of getting yourself out of overblending is to set the alarm to go off at 1 hour (or whatever time) and stop work on your piece. It will do 2 things. It will teach you to work faster and more efficient. And it will make you stop and examine what really needs to be done after living with it for awhile.
I havent been doing anything for months because of "the big move". It probably wont happen for even a few more. When Im ready again, I will let my whimsical spirit lead me.
I like what Ive written here and I havent blogged for a long time, so you have helped me too, to write something for the blog. Its so wonderful how artists can inspire one another"!

Monday, January 3, 2011

वहत इस लाइफ?


I dont always stop enough when I feel the urge to write. I am hip deep in moving today, but Im going to break and write. This is one of my New Years resolutions.
I dont see the world like most other people. Everything is alive, and I mean everything. Animals, rocks, plants, and inanimate objects. Everything talks to me. I feel the pain of a tree removed. I feel the life and history of objects old and new as they are utilized by society. Many people found it hard to understand why I took it so hard and personally when we lost our house. It was an organism all to itself, a living entity. It was a death. I would not relate with this being anymore. And all the sub species of life risked being killed by one less conscious. Nothing would be repurposed, or respected, or handled in any sort of intelligent way. I let it go and all I see now is my future and the excitement that comes with making new friends and loving new and different things. Things come and go easily, this is true. But each "thing" will never be the same as the last. The universe is moving and evolving. Every molecule that comes in consciousness of our mind is affected and changed. Life itself is changed for everyone, past, present, and future. That is what the "Now" is. We will come to realize that there is no time continuum. Im really getting off track here with what I was wanting to say, or am I?
How does this relate to art? What better way to imbue an object with purpose intent, and energy than to create a piece of art. Art conveys to others the consciousness and message of the artist. Everyone is affected by viewing it whether they be sensitive or not. The ones viewing it will pass ithat energy along to everyone they come in contact with, and so on.
The sensitive ones will be more aware than the others, but everyone will be affected. Thats why Im bothered by gross and obscene art. Is this really what the artist wants to put into the environment? Ask yourself, would I want my Mother, my daughter, my brother to see this? How would I have felt viewing this when I was four? Confused maybe, even frightened? There is a positive and a negative. Positive energy promotes improvement, evolving. Negative energy tears down, deconstructs, devolves.
So what is life? Its what you make it.