FINALLY...

So I was finally able to do SOMETHING, gah!!!! so many days with no creative flow, it was crazy making!! been organizing and counting and making lists of supplies for the new year regarding new projects and ideas. I'm excited to venture into some more illustration type projects, get my drawing up to speed a bit after so much collage, I forget how to hold a pencil! I know many people combine collage and illustration together but I have never been one of those people, so who knows? Wishing my printer had ink right now, would love to start on my "lookbook" for card shops around town. Etsy isn't really doing it for me these days either so I'm not sure if I will continue with my shop. I think I need to get into more of a niche market instead of a little bit of everything. Separate the art from the craft and focus on one thing...dont really know what that looks like but hey, I'm working on it.  Final day off until the One of a Kind show starts and I will be helping my boss with her booth and things so might not get to the blog for a bit. Hang in there! Keep doing whatever it is you do..until next time...Jeff.

FEELS LIKE HEMINGWAY...

Well another Sunday rolls around. Friday I went to the Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera exhibit at the AGO it was incredible. There were many black and white photographs of Frida and some of them together. There was also some old film footage of the two of them together which really gave you a sense of how they were together and who they really were. I was surprised at how small Frida's paintings were some were only the size of a poscard! so much detail and colour! I felt like I really did get immersed in their world for a moment. At the end of the exhibit there was a beautiful Day of the Shrine all along the hallway, beautiful Katrina dolls and a huge panel of tiny skulls in metal lining a portion of the wall with candles and flowers...just amazing. It was confirmation once again that art really fuels me and inspires me and that I need to immerse in it on a more regular basis. So many ideas!!! I have been reading Hemmingway these days which has also been very inspiring. Somehow he makes me feel alive and not alone. Bitter sweet and joyful, aware and content. Reading him makes me want to fight for my life, fill my life, live my life.