Tips Tuesday – Finding InspirationFlaming Hot! Subject of the day…Where do I find inspiration? Well I do live in a beautiful state, near the ocean. The colors surrounding me are inspiration everyday. My favorite colors are blue’s and green’s….it’s why you see so many beads in those colors from us. Living on the coast shows in the majority of our work.
A gorgeous sunset will bring out the beautiful corals, oranges along with pinks, reds and purples in me. Thinking about vacation inspires me to create florals and tropical inspired beads. A ride on the harley with Dan, seeing the beauty while having fresh hair whip your face….is pure inspiration….we see so many awesome things, from a bald eagle flying…to the river filled with white egret standing in the lower tide water along the river edge. The larger Blue Heron who spook so easy. This time of year, the changing leaves all over the winding hiway…depends on the season, where you are. Anything can stimulate a thought…a thought that brings a feeling…which in turn will sway you to choose your color choices for the day. Right now the so very many shades of green and gold in the hills….spring time it will be a whole different pallet of green with a valley floor filled with white and purple flowers. Later in the spring into summer you will have hills filled with gold scotchbroom. It’s always changing and inspiring you to want to take those colors from nature and create.
My bling dichro beads….are pure playing with color and flash. Where do I get the idea’s on color? I am not sure, just living life you are subject to so many visual items that will sway you to pick up colors that are on your mind. Even though my “Planet Earth” are a tribute to blue and green and the earth. “Sedona Stones” the earthy desert and russet sunsets of Arizona.
Going shopping sometimes inspires me…seeing the gorgeous colors in clothing. Looking through a magazine will sometimes do that for me to. Sometimes I am just inspired by pure feelings…to pick up a color pallet and work with that. Sometimes a sign, or the way a business might be painted…their logo’s…will spark an idea. I remember once seeing a sign with a cave like petroglyph logo…I think that could very well be where my first pyroglyphs came from. I then searched easy to create ones like kokopelli’s, sun burst etc.
Sometimes hunting for inspiration is hopeless, if your muse is on vacation. You just sit there staring at all the rods of glass colors wishing she would sit right down next to you and have a chat.
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