I invited my friend Michele to give me some ideas of what to draw tonight. I told her I was cutting my paper smaller so it would be tall and skinny—because it was late and I was tired and hoped it would take me less time with less square footage. Her suggestion was a door, it would fit on a tall skinny page. A door. I could do that. Then I remembered a piece a woman artist I know did.. A red door in a tree that she titled “The Invitation”. Thank you Michele and Ellen for inspiring me tonight.
Which led to an idea. How about if you all, everyone, anyone, someone, offers me a suggestion each day as to what to be my subject matter? Maybe it is just a matter of looking around you and naming the first thing that catches your eye. Or maybe it is something that is in your heart in the moment. Granted, I might take the offering and I might not, or I might get more than one (I am thinking optimisticly) and I will have to choose, or not. It sounds like a plan to get me over this hump I have been feeling the last 3 days of “what the *#@! do I draw!”
And if you give me a suggestion and I use it, I will gladly give you credit if you will let me. It takes a village to do art, too, not just to raise kids. Are you game?
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