thoughts

i felt like blogging last night but i didn't. i decided it was better to keep my thoughts in my head and try falling asleep before 1. it didn't happen so that was a waste. i remembered that i wanted to write about going away to different places for long periods of time. i was reminded by a survey my sister did and wrote "i like to pretend i know french." that was something i was going to say last night. i was thinking i wish i could get over my fear of leaving home for more than a week. i'm pretty sure i've never been away longer than that if even. if i could get over that fear i'd go to ny or washington or chicago and get my art history degree. i'd even go to france (that's where my pretend knowledge of french would come in handy) and study art history there. oh art history, how i wish there was a future for you and me together here! for now though, i'll just hope to visit ny and france for short whiles at a time.

not to go off on a tangent, but i really hate how all of my double spaces after periods are automatically changed. i don't care if that's not a rule anymore! it was instilled in my brain and that will forever be the way i type. it just looks too smushed to me. i don't like it at all. can you tell i'm not a fan of change?

on to another random thought, i am in love with the work of Yellena. i found her etsy shop on some other blog that i can't remember right now. my favorite piece of hers is Allusion. it's so amazingly detailed! next month i'm gonna buy the print (i've spent a lot already this month) and hang it with my Robert Frank photographs. honestly, every time i look at this piece i notice some new extraordinary element. the layering is so thoughtful that i can't imagine how long this took to come together.

my love for you is a stampede of horses posted an interview with a really inspiring artist, Kime Buzzelli. i was reading it and felt the urge to pull out my sketch book. her pieces are interesting and i love her explanation of what goes through her head before she sits down to work on a piece. my brain is not even that creative. i'm always itching to draw or paint and can never seem to get the random images in my head to fit cohesively together. but that's why i'm not an artist.

i enjoy hearing artist's explanations of their work and their thought processes, because before i knew about their thoughts the only explanations i had to go on were my own. only my own efforts at creating art were my guide at why brush strokes were placed in certain places and why the layout of a photograph was the way it was. so to hear actual artist's take on their art lets me compare my own experiences and also better understand their own. however, both explanations help me realize just how much work goes into every piece of art.

i've written a lot and it's extremely random, but hopefully i got all of the things i wanted to write about last night. if not i'm sure there'll be another scatterbrained post tomorrow.

oh and p.s. the hills was less fake this week (well minus the heidi/audrina drama) and i'm excited to hopefully see kelly cutrone bitch someone out! i'm sure this has to happen eventually. and stephanie is so hit or miss with her hair. curled bangs, way not cute. random band around your head, oddly really cute.

Comments

Julie said…
I am not artistic, but I enjoy artsy stuff...you seem to also! One of the gals on my blog introduced me to ATC's (Artist trading cards)...I have a blog of some I have made, along with a friend and my daughter in law. It is fun...you can make them in any medium...paint, draw, decoupage, sewn, etc. I store mine in a notebook in baseball trading card sheets! Some people decorate Altoid tins or the boxes that bandaids come in to store them in. There are also swaps where people make a certain amount and then trade with others, all the same theme. They are fun to look through, because it is all the stuff you make and care about. Like a mini scrapbook for me! I just finished doing them on my week long trip into Georgia and back to Florida if you want to check them out on my ATC blog! There are also smaller ones called inchies...check it out on google for more info! Hope you like this!
Julie
carolie said…
that's a great idea! thanks for sharing! i'll definitely check out your blog!