Commissions and Creativity
Recently I have been asked to create art similar to a previous creation. Partridge and Pear Blossoms was requested due to a new customer and art collector’s desire to have less blue than my piece...
View ArticleDragon Eggs and Teaching
A while back, I was at our Southern Flames Silent Auction and was chatting with some new members about some of the offerings. They were excited about some of the glass shards up for bid and I...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Well, almost. We’re getting ready to kick back into gear here at Watch Me Create and is still looking for interesting articles and stories about your views of creativity, your process, showing the...
View ArticleWhat is your oldest idea?
What is the longest amount of time that an idea has been kicking around in your head? I have creative ideas all the time. Sometimes I am able to jot them down but they are forgotten. Then there are the...
View ArticleCreativity and Clutter Quiz
It is the beginning of the year and the time when many people are working hard on New Years resolutions. While I have not been big on resolutions, clutter has always been one of my biggies to conquer....
View ArticleCreativity is…
dictionary.com says: cre·a·tiv·i·ty [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-] noun 1. the state or quality of being creative. 2. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns,relationships, or the...
View ArticleCreativity experiment/exercise
When I was in high school I had a very creative (understatement there) art teacher. One day she asked us to write down a list of as many uses we could come up with for a brick. I had always thought...
View ArticleSomething that has boosted my creativity…
I know how to tap into my creativity. I have been so obsessed with the process of creativity that it has become a way of life, most of the time. However, I am always looking for new inspirations that...
View ArticleSee things differently…
Just for today, exercise your creative powers and try to see something differently. Try to see something from someone else’s perspective. Try to see the ‘pixels’ of color in something in nature, or a...
View ArticleInspired by the Swamp…
I recently took Kimberly Affleck’s weekend class. She told the story of how her seahorse beads came to life…how she had looked at a technique she had been doing for a while (I’m paraphrasing, of...
View ArticleI can’t believe how good this feels…
The waters are parting, the gates have opened, the path is clear… I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole adult artistic life for this moment. The moment when I know exactly what I want to make, how I...
View ArticleMicro Mosaic Color Study continued…
A while back I did the first “color study” for making glass micro mosaics. It wasn’t a true color study because I was just testing colors I already had made. There was no rhyme nor reason and nothing...
View ArticleCall for entries: Short Stories and Poetry
Are you an aspiring poet/writer? Looking for a little exposure? Why not try then new Joie online magazine? Click on through for details.
View Article4 x 6 Exchange
From the creators of the Sketchbook Project comes the 4 x 6 Exchange. Create a 4″ x 6″ piece of art, mail it in and get one back from another creative-type. It’s free.
View ArticleWatch George Create
Last year I bought four blown glass drinking glasses at a gallery in Sedona, AZ. I love them so much that I decided that I needed more so I went in search of the artist, whose name is engraved on the...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned about color that I already knew but forgot to put into...
I further documented the micro mosaic process over at my other blog where you can see what it actually looks like up close. While I thought I was so smart and intuitive about what colors go together...
View ArticleChoosing colors for Chickenfoot Micro Mosaic
I want to get some raspberry in there too but I’m not sure how to achieve that with 104 coe glass. I don’t want to experiment on this piece as to whether a different glass will fuse to the surface or...
View ArticleAs the chicken foot grows…
Over 75% of the chicken foot image is placed. Thousands of tiny murinni make up the image. I wasn’t too happy when I first started out, thinking that the design looked too flat. But, as you can see (or...
View ArticleOvercome with emotion…
I thought I was a bit off before but now I really know I am. The chicken foot is done and I actually could bring forth tears. I’m serious. I have chills on the back of my neck. I have never been this...
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