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DAJP #34 The Best Advice
Posted on December 30, 2011 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Blog, FeaturedSome of the best advice I ever got about being an artist was:
- Follow my heart
- Listen to my intuition
- Embrace my obsessions
One of my favorite shapes to over use is the basic circle. I love circles, they are perfect. So I over use them and I do not care!
And stars. And fleur de lis, and diamonds.
It shows too, you know it is one of my pages when you see these things with my colors and all of the heavy layers.
What is the best advice you ever got?
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I love “embrace your obsessions” – I will be co-opting that one!
The best advice I ever got was actually regarding my wedding day – someone told me that one my wedding day, any time someone came up to me and asked me a question to do something I was to grab the nearest person and ask them to deal with it. BEST advice for a bride ever!
In my creative life – something that sticks with me is that there is no “way” – I can do or not do, finish or not finish, and can make ugly stuff just for the experience of it.
I could have used that advice since we ended up at the hotel without our bags
It was an adventure! lolz
My best advice is ” I don’t have to do anything I don’t WANT to do”. I don’t have to do collage pieces in “3′s” or do lots of colors or layers. I can even put a floating head if I want. So…..forget who says what and go for it.
Now that is excellent advice Susan!
the best creative advice i received was there are no rules in art, follow the path that you want
You know that advice was hard earned on my part. Being a rules girl {HTML and CSS are like rules} I started out trying to learn all the rules. Now I pretty much ignore most of them anyway!
I love the follow your heart & Embrace your Obsessions. This has become an obsession for me & it does help dealing with pain – most of the time. Im in love with art & art journalling again. Ive sporadically drawn horses over the years but all this is new territory & I want to learn everything, rules or no rules. It has been soooo much more freeing than scrapbooking as nothing has to be finished- you can do a bit here, there & everywhere. Thanks for being an inspiration & rock on 2012 & let it be an awesome year for us all