Growth of knowledge

As I gain experience and confidence, I start to feel abilitated to give advice or guidance.  Of course, I do it withing the limit of my knowledge.  It feel empowering.  There are a few area where I feel confortable to give advice.

In creativity, there is no recipe.  Nothing is certain.  Each person have a personal process for reating.  Advice is not essential but it can help.  It can gives us a different angle in seeing the creation.  It can open up a possibility for experimenting something new.  It can trigger an idea for a a project that is stuck.

Creative and advice are based on something intangible.  They start as a concept and can end on a physical support.  This is why I find them well suited together.  They don't need to be always together.  It's when questions or problems arise that they are a powerful team.

It is a new role for me.  it start to grow on a personal level.  I am more self taught, learning everything the hard way most of the time.  I feel knowledgeable now, more than before.  Probably it is the same for everybody but not in the same area.   As I gives advice and talk about my experience, I sense a feeling of power.  This feeling is not really negative.  I don't give order, it is more what I got for what I lived through.

In Residence

Artists in residence are quite popular.  I just learned there is one in a library nearby.  I don't really get this popular trends.  The person have time in the library but she also goes around in sme group and makes writing project with them.  I feel artsy but I don't want to be in residence.  It sound a little bit show off.  I guess it is all about getting known.  Maybe I am old school.

I thought it was only limited to the parliment, for example.  There is a poet in the Canadian parliement.  From what I heard of it, that person in residence can write poems for events.  I am not sure if they can write on people.  I know that the person receive requests..  I don't think I could do that on every requests.  I just hope they upgraded that residence or I haven't seen every thing done by the poet in residence.

I feel less ignorant but I think it is not for every artists.  I don't feel at ease to look at others art and comment on it.  My craft have to come first because I feel already limited in my free time for creating.  I just wonder if it pays well.  I wouldn't sell off easily.  I am curious.  Does it depends on the artists portfolio?  The writer in residence that I meet only published one book.  It seems to be a popular book.  It makes me questioned why she had been choosen to be an artist in residence.  She had noe explained that., only what she could do with the group I was in.  I guess I will have to ask with some tack.

Labyrinth like place

There are places that are labyrinth like.  I consider myself having a good sense of direction.  Well, a decent one.  It is rare that I become lost.  When it happen, there is usually a reason.  Maybe it is becoming dark and I don't see as well as daylight.  There is also the unfamiliarity of the location.

There is one place that puzzle me right now.  It is the first time I feel really lost.  The place is where one of my child take swimming classes.  The locker room is like a box.  So, there should not be a problem, theorically.  It is the rows of lockers inaddition of the two floors of the locker room that bugs me.  Adding under identification sighs.  It makes me feel totally incompetent.

What I find dumbfounding: swimming class is in the same buidling place than the summer camp.  During summer camp, the indications were ultra clear.  There were also helpful people every step of the way, in clear view.  In the end of the swimming class, I hope to have a satisfaction's survey.  It will be a good place to put my concern.  I just hope I am not the only one in that situation.  I am sure they can put the signs a bit more visible.  Putting one or two persons in the beginning of the sessions for directing people would be nice too.

Thinking of labyrinth gives me a few ideas for labyrinth theme projects.  It will just take times because it involve a lot to do.  It is in the list that contain long time projects.

Good night,. good idea

Night is great to solve problems and get ideas.  I just had a dilemma  It is cross-stitches related.  In the kit that I have, there is a starting point.  That starting point is usually on the middle of the piece of fabric.  Well, it was for the ladybug and the duck.

It is different for the pinguin.  It was a little bit off centered.  It kind of bugs me.  I could place the starting point in the centre of the cloth.  It lead to be unsure if the picture would have enough place on the fabric.

I finally slept on it.  In the early morning, I got the answer.  I will start with a white thread and fill the belly of the penguin.  It will resolve my dilemma.  In addition, there won't be small holes there, well the holes of the fabrics.

It isn't in the design and there isn't any white threads in the kit.  I just put my own twist to  make the project easier to me.  The end result is nice and not out of shape.

Creatively working ouside the house.

I am starting to consider working outside the house, at least creatively.  Lately, I have lot of waiting room time.  It is during that time that I feel more productive.  I guess if I had all my time in a waiting room, the productivity would decrease.  Anyway, I consider at laest experimenting on this.

So, right now, I have the right amount of time outside the home to creatively working on my projects.  I just want to vary in the places I am in.  There is no other distractions, only work.  Now, I will have to find the place to do it.  Library aren't always open.  Their hours are a bit too restrictive or too weird to my taste.  Going to a business like a coffee shop isn't better.  I would have to buy something to justivfy my presence.

I also would like to find a place near my place.  I don't want to go far away, just enough to fee outside the home.  It won't be easy to find the perfect spot.  Better start the search right now.  I hope to have a bright idea.  Waiting room isn't always enough and I am not always there.  Renting a place isn't an opting either right now.  I have to keep my eye open for the perfect creative free place.

Inspired by a first draft

Last Nanowrimo (nanowrimo.org), I wrote a story on werewolves.  It was the last part in a trilogy of military experiment.  it was nice to end that trilogy.  It is taking more than expected to do the correction.  Usually, at this time of the year, the text had gone through a full revision.  So, I am late in doing it.  I really feel a bit late on my schedule.

On the other haned, there is a positive note.  It makes me feel the urge to write again.  There is no big idea for this year nanowrimo.  Nothing planned either.  I don't know if I will go free in the writing or if I will take a project that I already started.

I remember when I started writing.  I was not able to make a revision.  My first try at a revision was brutal and horrible.  It resulted in a long period where I was unable to work on my writng.  There was no improvement in that area.  Now, I have more knowledge.  The first step I took in my revision was grammar errors.  After that, it was the phrases.  I am not perfect but I am now able to improve my first drafts.

Doing revision is making me better.   The process also make it easier to do.  NOw, I have to work on writing a bit faster.  I know I have big projects.  I may be very ambitious.  It may be my weak point.  This is why there is a need, for me, to write faster.

More than finger paints

I found this painting:

I never had the idea to use hands and feets prints in a painting.  It gives me an idea.  Of course, I will give it my own twist.  Instead of using ink, I will use finger paints.  It will open up the colours option.

Another change: I won't repeat the same painting.  I am thinking to make flowers with the finger's tips or the toes.  I will also use adult's hands and feet.  So, I don't think to use my hands in totality.  I think to use only part of my hand, part of my feet.  My canvas will also be bigger.

I just got another idea: I could use finger print to do jewelry.  Like a pendant.  The finger print would be on a piece of paper.  The piece of paper would be glued to a bezel.  On top of it, transparent resin would be placed as a protection.  It could be a modern version of the lock of hair in a medallion.

I think I will have fun with the finger art!