Just last Friday I went to see the artwork my friend Chuck who was showing with a few other artists in a place called the Walker house. The show consisted of landscape artist (very nice work). Later on that evening, just after my girl went to sleep, I got bitten by the creative bug.
As you’ve seen from previous posts, I’ve been bringing polymer clay to my life drawing sessions. Well, I had about five of them (unfired) just sitting around in my bedroom. I liked him, but they didn’t look finished, so I did not fire them yet.
That night, or should I say that morning seeing that it was after 12 midnight, the ideas started to pour in without a warning. Looking at my pieces, I can see where they needed to go, and started working. I worked until about a little after 2 a.m., when my girl rolled over and asked what time it was.
Creativity does not seem to have a respect for time, it comes and goes when it wants. There are times I’ve sat down to do work, and nothing would flow, and other times, I couldn’t stop the process. I’ve been hit with ideas during movies, out on a date, and even while I was doing plumbing. There is one thing I learned from this process, and that is, I always bring my PDA with me. I can write things down or I can’t even make small drawings (with an art app) so I won’t forget them and I can come back to them later. Sometimes it’s not even the fact of forgetting them, it’s the fact that the idea itself won’t let me go. The idea keeps buzzing in my head until I write it down, and the PDA steps in to save the day.
Back to my pieces. At first I was just planning some simple sculptures but they didn’t look right to me, they didn’t have my surrealistic touch. The first one I did, I kept pretty simple, I made it look kind of like a flag blowing in the wind. The second one I came up with a doorway seen carved in. But then I wasn’t sure what to do with the other three, that is until that Friday night. Now the challenge begins, how many ways to alter and express the form.
week one (flag waving in the wind) sorry, no before picture
week two (the doorway)
week three (woven ribbons)
week four (ragged surface)
week five (brick wall) sorry, no before picture
This is just my starting point. From now on, until I run out of ideas, I’m going to create a new way to express my live model sessions. Every week I go to the session, I will figure out a new way to express it, one per week for his long as I can go (anyone want to take a bet on how long I can go, how many different styles?). also, from now on I will make sure to always take a before and after picture as I continue my weekly updates on my polymer clay life session figures.
Keep on creating,
Ken
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