Creating for Creation Sake
This weekend, I completed the following painting. 
Excuse the blurry photo. I had to take these photos with my iphone. Great phone, not the greatest picture quality. I started two paintings this weekend.
I will work on these next week. I am enjoying this series. It has sparked some really fascinating ideas for me. One is to take one of my drawings and make copies of it; send it to other women and ask them to do an interpretation of it; color it in or use it to create a similar piece (in style and size). I will keep you posted on this project – if I decide to do this project.
I spoke to my mother over the weekend. She was amazed over a drawing that my niece completed. It was a drawing of a flower. When my niece shared it with her grand mother, she, my mother, responded by asking her where did she get your auntie’s (i.e. me) sketchbook. Basically, my mother thought that my niece’s drawing was one of mine. She realized it couldn’t have been my sketchbook because 1. I DO NOT LEAVE SKETCHBOOKS SITTING AROUND and B. The sketchbook that the drawn flower was in was one that my mother had purchased about a week ago for my niece.
“She can really draw!” I knew that at least one of my nieces or nephews would share their talent through visual art. I have been sharing school options with my niece. I hope she attends Detroit School of Art – a place that will nurture her talent and make it ok for her to pursue a career in something she loves.
Art is life and it will continue in my family, from me, to my niece and nephew (I have an eight year old nephew that is also artistically creative) and to their children.
Tuesday I start a art class at Art League Houston and the following Sunday is a first of many meetings with a group of women artist. I am looking for a successful collaboration from this experience.
Moving on. Until Next Weekend.