Inspiration is always just around the corner if you’re willing to seek it out. Get out of the house. Drive down to the library or the bookstore. Visit the museum. Go listen to live music. Attend a spoken word event. Seek out your inspiration. As Julia Cameron writes in the Sound of Paper:
In order to make art, we must first make an artful life, a life rich enough and diverse enough to fuel. We must strive to see the beauty where we are planted, even if we are planted somewhere that feels very foreign to our own nature.
So tonight I went hunting for inspiration and found it at the bookstore. Found a book, Artists’ Journals & Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages, by Lynne Perrella. It’s full of page after page of ideas and visual inspiration to get you thinking and exploring different styles of artwork.
So here’s my list of top ten ideas sparked from this evening’s adventures:
- A dark and moody portrait
with suns and moons
in the background. - Experiment with
image transfers. - Build a collage
inspired by a
famous art quote. - Explore different fonts.
- Backgrounds with text.
- Music Notes
- A series of bird
inspired pieces. - Butterflies.
- Tarot card.
- Architecture.
So what does your list look like?
