There is a load of housekeeping chores necessary to the creative process, I believe, no matter what process that might be, or what tools you use. If you create beautiful meals, you'll have to wash dishes and clean the kitchen. If you paint, you'll have to wash brushes and keep the work surface clear. If you don't, the mess you'd ordinarily make will be worse and you won't be able to find things.
A friend was in the studio the other day and said, "Are you always this organized?" I glanced around, noting the clutter and soaking brushes, and said, "I guess I am. I don't have time to stop what I'm doing and hunt for a pair of scissors or a color." (I have learned to forego the temptation to point out my own foibles, thereby insulting the person trying to compliment me or my work by saying something like, "What? This mess? You call this organized?")
Additionally, brushwashing and straightening up can be terrifically therapeutic. When I hit a rough patch and just don't know what to do next, I can always grab the soaking brushes and spend several reflective minutes at the sink caring for them.
(This is what God did on the seventh day. What He did on the eighth, I don't know; from the look of things, not much. Must have been a week's gig, and this is what we got.)
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- Priscilla Wallace
- My first attempt to enter the world of fine art was through academic painting at the University of Texas at Austin. I learned what painting was, and, disappointingly, that I couldn’t do it. I left painting as one would leave a failed marriage. It was some years later that I approached making art through making crafts. Since then, I have come to regard fine crafts as fine art: The difference between the two exist on a theoretical level only, because a line separating them cannot be drawn—at least, not for me. In a world made of both “art” and “craft” I have found my home. My artwork seems to best be called “Crafted Paintings.” Still mindful of the principles of design, they are part collage, part mixed media painting, part constructions. They are likely to run off in any of these directions, or others, as the spirit moves them. That spirit expands most successfully when it is beautiful, whimsical, colorful, and rich. These pieces celebrate life in one aspect of it or another, and they seek to create joy in the heart of the viewer. View my art at www.artbycollage.com
Places currenly showing Priscilla's Art
- Mountain Micro Systems (828-438-9456)
- Hair and Nails Unlimited (828-433-0894)
- Valdese Heritage Arts Center (828-874-1849)
- Urban Artware (336-722-2345)
- Full Circle Arts (828-322-7545)
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