Sarah’s Creative Journey

Can't forget to include these pictures.  I also finished both of these in April/May.  

So what have I been doing lately?  Well between working, arting, sleeping, and eating, I have been very busy.  All of the above pictures were from the month of May.  There was a fantabulous wedding ceremony, the welcoming of this little guy, James, and a crazy outing with these kids.  

"Music is a reflection of self, we just explain it." Let me give you some free advice: never listen to a word I say.  |  I have been searching all of my days, and the days keep turning into nights.  |  I've got all these thoughts just floating through my brain.  They bump and the collide and cause a flurry of confusion.  |  I need to pour out this expensive dose of words.  |  The problem was what I couldn't avoid.  |  Memories seep from my veins.  |  It makes me smile just thinking about those days down south.  |  I'm alive, so alive.  |  It's a nice day when you wake up in Disneyland.  |  I wake up to the sound of music.  The whole poem consists of lyrics from over 100 different artists. And there are 140 lyrics.  All on one 8.5" x 11" page.  Yeah.  It's going to be awesome.  See picture from previous entry for a sneak peek. 

Keep an ear out for more information!  I may have a show coming up this September!  I'm also working to get a lot of new pieces done, so it won't be the 'same good ol' art' you have probably already seen!

Finally getting further along on projects.  The top is the "musical poem"-the one that I have been collecting lyrics for since January- is finally making its way to the scratchboard!  I think it will turn out well.   The second picture is a gouache painting of a small boulevard.  I fell in love with the colors of the picture and I am trying to recreate the feeling I get from looking at it.  I have also been working on a small "fire series."  There are 4 pieces (looking at pictures for 2 of them and using more imagination/line quality for the other 2).  Hopefully I can get them to a level where I first imagined them being.  I may or may not have a few other projects in the making... because I can't just work on ONE piece at a time. 

Life hardly ever goes the way we want it to.  With each encounter and each relationship, nothing is set in stone.  Accidents happen and life moves on.  With my life, music has always been there.  So for one of my scratch boards I am putting together a collection of lyrics (from many many songs) to create a sort of story about how life has come and gone.  It does not necessarily apply to only my life.  Obviously some lyrics I have chosen express the thoughts of the  artists and musicians  who originally wrote them.  The purpose of this project is to explore language and the meaning of lyrics.   As for the medium, I have always been fascinated by small writing.  With the scratching utensil, I can fit an immense amount of detail in a small area.   Whether or not a picture will be included is still in process.   For now, the small words will represent that from far away things are/can be insignificant.  But...

So I won't be listing all of the goals I wrote down for myself, which makes the title of this post a little misleading.  But you get the point.  Anyway, I thought this was a good idea.  So far it actually has provided incentive and so far has kinda kept me on track (or on the mindset of doing/accomplishing them anyway). Here are a few good ones that I'm working on: Get rid of unnecessary things. Go outside more. Log travels and accomplishments. Sell artwork. Keep up with blog/website. Start illustrating and painting in Adobe programs. Take more pictures of people. Try new things. Take advantage of and use the things I have. Break bad habits/create good habits.