Artists have a lot of fears. For me, some of the top ones
are the fear that I’m not really any good, fear that nobody will like or
understand what I am doing (or worse yet—consider it trite and amateurish) and
fear that I are going to mess up once I finally get started on something good.
Sometimes I can’t get going. Many times I
don’t know when to stop...I'm not sure if I am actually done or not. Sometimes I am afraid to try something new or
different. Often I feel like I’m in a rut.
With the technique I learned in Kelly Kilmer’s journal workshop
at the Ink Pad, I am doing regular journal pages. I don’t seem to have too much
trouble finding images to use as a collage base for the pages. What I DO have a
problem with is pushing through to step two (using a stencil or stamp) and step
three (writing on the page).
I really liked the collage base in this page, which is on
the left. I used images from a design magazine and from a Hamptons freebie
publication. I was afraid to mess it up with the stenciling/stamping and
writing, but I went ahead anyway and added stenciled geometric shapes, stamped
words from Dina Wakely, some marks with a black sharpie and white gel pen, a
little shadow with a pale gray marker, and a few words and phrases that popped
into my head as I was working.
“Toot your own horn” is a phrase that came to me as I was
working, and it is something I work toward; I am basically introverted and
putting myself “out there” in the art world isn’t easy or natural.
1 comment:
Continue to just play and release those fears Linda- we all either have had or have them! Follow your art instinct and others will follow you also! Hugs ")
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