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Where do you find inspiration?
I've been working on a few artistic endeavors recently, and have found myself grasping for inspiration. Tildes has such a lively group of creators, as we see many put on display every year in November, and I'd love to know where you all draw your inspiration from! I'm leaving this purposely vague, anything is on the table: people, places, objects, ideas, music, whatever!
I've been not in a great mental state. So everything kind of died internally for a while. Nothing was interesting or inspiring. But I'm a lot better now and I want to regain what I lost. Art wise.
So I've been putting aside one day a week to go somewhere interesting or different alone. It doesn't have to be specifically art. It can be museums about the war. Or explore a particular hidden passage people don't know about. Going hiking counts too.
The most recent one I went to was on a whim. I just looked at Google maps for the nearest art galleries around and went to the closest one that seemed interesting.
It was fun. I met the owner of the gallery and had a nice chat with him. Talked about art got inspired by some of the art. They was a lot of mixed mediums going on and I loved that.
Afterwards, I bought a medium sized canvas to paint on because I want to try paint bigger! Like all those artworks I saw!
I'm going to do it! If it goes well, I'll go even bigger! BIGGER!
That's awesome!!!! I really like that idea, new places can be so inspiring! My partner and I joke that I get into deep ruts: like I'll go hike the same route at the same place a few times a week or go bike the same trails at the same time of day a few days a week. I'm going to try picking at least one new route each week! Thanks for the idea!
And if you'd be up for sharing I'd love to see what you end up creating!! Totally understand if you want to keep it personal as well though!
My main creative output is music. I get inspiration from:
What has given you inspiration in the past?
Those are great places to draw from! I can imagine most folks have a goldmine of energy and emotion from the pandemic period, that's a great suggestion!
I'm trying to get back into physical mediums - getting time at the pottery studio and subsequently more illustration to help think things through. Historically it's been from other artists - I really like the kind of gross, funky, trashing styles associated with skateboarding and surfing. Barry McGee or Ed Templeton always come to mind. Or the more up beat style of outdoor enthusiast artists like Wyatt Hersey or Natalie Andrewson. Fun and bold.
Funny enough after I asked the question I went down a Frog and Toad rabbit hole trying to make their adventures line up with some of the things I do in the community here. That has been very fun. I'd like to make a backsplash tile set if things work out.