Creative Muse Fickle Muse

Fairfax CA

Description

Let me tell you how I evoke my 'muse' by sharing my personal ramblings and 'process' with you. But first -- a simple ode to those elusive, diaphanous entities of endless inspiration, down the rabbit hole we go... Filled with doubt, various drawings tossed about next to an unyielding empty canvas which needs some love. Don't want to start sounding cynical or crass Fickle Muse: Wee hours with sane asleep, this artist steeped in conflicted inspiration. Night owl? Morning bird? Procrastination? Promptings vague, wasted visuals. Infused with Boujee, promiscuous pomegranate you’ve got quite the extensive and expensive European high heel collection to choose from for one of my scantly-clad boudoir photography sessions do you have matching stockings to boot? Filled with doubt, various drawings tossed about an unyielding empty canvas needing some love. Don't want to start sounding cynical or crass sooo damn early in the morning as it can wreck one’s whole day. There's an idea… catch it, sketch it and shake it down! Quick, coax it and apply a little paint with finesse and caress the merciless motion. I smell hesitation in relaxation. Is it time for an expensive European afternoon coffee yet, only a true artisan would know… No Starbucks though. You say, this could jumpstart mid-day rejuvenation not mental 'mastur'. Fickle muse, I thought I saw you at Matteucci's the other evening wearing a 70s blouse, I quickly, I captured that on a paper napkin doodling away, the likeness was uncanny. It's a new year, let's cheer by making it clear that it's time to start anew, feeling free of quandary's cage by not getting paid, this is what actually keeps me sane and gives me the will to thrive and create. I can see it's getting late. Is it time for my evening Absinthe yet or, the girls dancing the can-can-Jacques? I could capture that chalk, manifesting my inner Toulouse Lautrec with a couple of sketches for my trusty sketchbook (no iPad allowed sorry) you have to promise not to l@@k. COAXING MY MUSE -- my process: Before I begin a painting, illustration or design concept I often have a visual thought or, stimuli that gnaws at me in a visceral sort of way -- something that prods me to investigate further its elusive, creative, potential within it’s passionate properties and playful possibilities thus propelling me to find the way it wishes to be represented. Once I'm out of the woods and can see the forests through the trees the visualization process slowly begins, I search my subterranean subconscious and form an event or image. I often simply begin putting down an idea or anything that comes to mind, from my unanalyzed stream of the subconscious. If this doesn't work I'll begin skimming through printed or illustrated imagery (could be risqué) until something grabs me in some odd way. Then and only then when I've found something that intrigues me, I must stay with that idea and e-x-p-a-n-d on it further as it must be illustrated in some creative outlet/form or fashion with my own personal twist and my modified variation — by not thinking directly of what the symbolism 'means' immediately. Instead, I just 'see' the visual or images and listen carefully to its directions and how it wishes to be represented and in what media it wishes to be created in. This is a very tactile involvement that I find inspiring. I let the natural flow and direction take shape by letting the art or photograph shape itself in a zen Buddhist sorta way letting the natural flow unfold organically as it does speaks to me in some bizarre fashion on a level of lucid propensity. Occasionally, I'll be seduced by a provocative image which bubbles up from my very essence from time to time reasonably intact. These are usually driven by the core message and the mood of the piece prompted by some past, profound personal experience. I’ve explained my psychology and my process for evoking my muse, the art and putting my creativity forth. I find prose and flow the most effective if I am naturally drawn to something in the form of subject matter which I can use for reference material, it then becomes a win/win situation for me. Important are the stories that have provoked us into a powerful creation state with a direct fusion that solidifies artwork from out of your head to onto the canvas for the world to see. If so inclined, send a story and an image or two. I have a portfolio with illustrations and a lot of photography that I could share, with no regrets or deep psychosis needed.