Artists inherently WANT to create...but sometimes wanting to create isn't enough - you need to be inspired! How are you inspired? Do you look at other artists? Do you look to nature? Are you surprised to find inspiration in unusual places? Let us know!
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I would say my biggest inspirations are memories. I base most of my paintings on various recollections. And along with that, nature, music, and photographic images would be the highest ranking. Anything that produces the specific feeling that I'm going for I incorporate into my work.
I am inspired by the natural world and the world of arts, such as stories, myths, architecture, sculpture, etc. Leaves and vines and vining type shapes often find their way into my mosaics, paintings and collages, as well as arches and columns and bits of text.
Anita
I get really inspired by nature and traveling. I think when you are outside your usual environment, you may be more compelled to look closer at the things around you. I often work based off photographs I've taken while traveling. It isn't just the scene in the photograph that inspires me though- I rarely would work off of someone else's photo/image. It is the image combined with the experience of being there and the emotion of the original experience.
I get my inspiration by looking at nature, others art, what's on tv...but most of it I get just from the materials I use to create. Like papers, paint, colors, textures...
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