inspiration, i believe, can be found in the most uncommon of places - at the bottom of a cup of coffee, beneath the couch entangled in dust bunnies, between the pages of an old national geographic...
How long do you have to look at the bottom of your coffee cup before you see a guy with a rare ivory billed woodpecker on his head?
Q: Did you draw that upside down?
Bone told me you drew the granny eating a radish picture upside down. "Of course she did" I said while coloring in my coloring book with oversized crayons. I got totally skipped on the whole creative gene thing.
I too like that picture a lot......and I seem to remember a story on NPR about these bird watchers in mississippi or louisiana saying that had heard an extinct Ivory billed woodpecker calling or chirping or what ever the hell a woodpecker does on some research tape or recording. Have they actually found the bird...and is there one out there on someone's head?
well I can certainly understand where polvo is coming from.....the national geographic was inspirational......but word is: it was hard to beat the good old sears catalog...back in the days.....before all this inspirational stuff was on the internet.
( I think I am being slowly pulled to the dark side by polvo. )
PS: Is there some way to spell check a comment? I am too lazy to go to WORD and cut and paste anymore.
i don't remember learning to draw upside down, just as i don't remember learning to walk. i'll let you in on a secret tho - it's easier to draw upside down than downside up. You focus more on shapes and 'negative space' around the image you're drawing and less on the "oh, this is an eyeball, let me see if i can draw an eyeball..oh that doesn't look like an eyeball"...your deeply rooted preconceived perceptions of what you think you see on the page go away when you turn it upside down.
Is drawing a natural talent of yours…. like your mom’s?…..Have you always been able to paint and draw very well…..or did yall take lots of lessons? when the rest of us were first graders trying to draw stick men or color inside the lines were you sketching scenes with proportionate perspective, colorful insights, and subtle nuances?…I am sure you get at least some of that talent from boan…(I have seen barry trying to draw his name before so I am ruling his genes out) …...which raises interesting questions as to which traits we inherit and why………to me being able to draw would logically seem like an acquired characteristic……but there must be some DNA passed down that allows one the ability to see something and make finger muscles move a pen in such a manner as to reproduce that image. Is it a thought process? A mind set? A particular method of looking at the world and analyzing? Patience? I wonder if other artists have a family history of that talent over generations………..
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This is an excellent picture. I just looked in the bottom of my cup of coffee, but I think I need an artist's eye to find the inspiration...
thank you.
did you look under your coffee cup?
How long do you have to look at the bottom of your coffee cup before you see a guy with a rare ivory billed woodpecker on his head?
Q: Did you draw that upside down?
Bone told me you drew the granny eating a radish picture upside down. "Of course she did" I said while coloring in my coloring book with oversized crayons. I got totally skipped on the whole creative gene thing.
I too have been inspired by National Geographic Magazines.
Some of the pages even got stuck together as a result.
the coffee cup had baileys irish cream in it, and of course i drew it upside down.
then, p.s. gross. seriously.
I too like that picture a lot......and I seem to remember a story on NPR about these bird watchers in mississippi or louisiana saying that had heard an extinct Ivory billed woodpecker calling or chirping or what ever the hell a woodpecker does on some research tape or recording. Have they actually found the bird...and is there one out there on someone's head?
How much do you want for it?
Does it come with a frame?
Or will I have to take a trip to the Hobby Lobby?
well I can certainly understand where polvo is coming from.....the national geographic was inspirational......but word is: it was hard to beat the good old sears catalog...back in the days.....before all this inspirational stuff was on the internet.
( I think I am being slowly pulled to the dark side by polvo. )
PS: Is there some way to spell check a comment? I am too lazy to go to WORD and cut and paste anymore.
Abbzug when and how did you learn to draw a picture upside down?
i don't remember learning to draw upside down, just as i don't remember learning to walk. i'll let you in on a secret tho - it's easier to draw upside down than downside up. You focus more on shapes and 'negative space' around the image you're drawing and less on the "oh, this is an eyeball, let me see if i can draw an eyeball..oh that doesn't look like an eyeball"...your deeply rooted preconceived perceptions of what you think you see on the page go away when you turn it upside down.
Is drawing a natural talent of yours…. like your mom’s?…..Have you always been able to paint and draw very well…..or did yall take lots of lessons? when the rest of us were first graders trying to draw stick men or color inside the lines were you sketching scenes with proportionate perspective, colorful insights, and subtle nuances?…I am sure you get at least some of that talent from boan…(I have seen barry trying to draw his name before so I am ruling his genes out) …...which raises interesting questions as to which traits we inherit and why………to me being able to draw would logically seem like an acquired characteristic……but there must be some DNA passed down that allows one the ability to see something and make finger muscles move a pen in such a manner as to reproduce that image. Is it a thought process? A mind set? A particular method of looking at the world and analyzing? Patience? I wonder if other artists have a family history of that talent over generations………..
Check out National Geo's: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0612/feature6/multimedia.html
also: ibwfound.blogspot.com
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