I follow several pottery blogs and all the potters I admire have an arts degree. I often wonder if I would be a better artist if someone had taught me how to be artsy -- as opposed to my degree in computer information systems -- not artsy! But then I look at my daughter Amy who is a wonderful artist and dreamer and ponder whether or not you can be taught to be creative? Because I am a "rule follower" at heart -- my mother would strongly disagree! -- I find it hard to just sit down and create. I am usually inspired by another artist and have a hard time finding my own starting point. I have been reading Patrick Marsolek's (I hope that is spelled correctly) book on self hypnosis hoping that the book forward was not lying when it said I would become more creative, lose weight, quit smoking and stop dreaming about bacon. He is a friend of my husband -- so I guess if it is all a big fat lie to sell books I know where to find him! It is snowing tonight and we are glazing, trimming and throwing. I will get the pictures out as promised soon.
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