How does one find time to create, when one has responsibilities ? When the time is right is the answer. For the past month I have not had alot of time to create due to having a full time job, being a full time husband and dad. All of which are important! However if I am to reach my goals with my art I need time to create. Rather than stress over finding that time I decided for my sanity and stress levels that its better to just wait it out and soon enough it will happen. That time has come at 1:23 in the am on a late Thursday night or early Friday morning however you would like to look at it. So what do I do, I blog. This post is a result of my current free time. Thoughts that need to be put down on paper so to speak. Reasons as to why I have not blogged much lately. You see if I am not creating art, I do not feel creative enough to write either.
Tonight I could have probably painted or have drawn out some new ideas but, I thought I would give my wife a break with the baby and let her sleep as long as possible. You see our youngest daughter has been staying pretty late into the night for over a month now. So I held my youngest daughter as long a possible before she awoke hungry. Water would not ease her hunger pains so mom had to be awoken. Before I woke mom I watched a good amount of TV with baby in arms. A couple of things I watched were stories from CBS Sunday morning. One on kaleidoscopes and another on glass weaving. Both really seemed to speak to me for one simple reason. I have been working out some ideas in my head and on paper about what I call scribble art. The result is something like, well, stained glass kaleidoscopes. Hence, when I see these two stories in one night I think this is my answer to my scribble art. A cosmic hint that I am on the right track figuring out how to turn scribble into beautiful art. I think it involves the simplicity of my scribble art , which is simple scribbled lines filled in with blocks of color, then add detail inside the blocks of color like flowing stained glass or lava. An effect I hope will create a new amazing pieces expanding my work into the future. The above photo is from the current scribble art piece I am currently working on. It’s in the infancy stages right now, for there is no detail. That will come soon enough. Hopefully quicker, tick, tick, tick, than later.
