Linda Hiller's Weblog

Artistic Emotions

lindahiller — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:26:26 +0000

How can emotions play such an important part in the creative process? So much of an artist goes in to the creative product that the emotions, or mind set can influence the outcome of not only the finished piece, but actually in being able to create.

It’s wonderful to be “in the zone” and just dance thru a painting. What happens when you slip out of that “zone”? Do most artist struggle just to finish, or just put it away until they get back on top of that mountain? Do all artists want to be on top of the mountain, emotionally? What about more of the complex or darker works of art-are they created on the top of the emotional mountain or halfway down? Or, perhaps by choice come from the valleys?

I personally have found during the last few months that I have to be on top of the emotional mountain or I cannot create anything at all. If I become depressed or melancholy at all I may as well leave my studio to gather dust.

Speaking of dust this is one of my latest pastels I have on my easel. It’s 24” x 18” on sanded pastel paper.

Acrylic painting

lindahiller — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:25:50 +0000

The sun is just now coming up - too bad I don’t have a good view of anything, rooftops are not very inspiring. I like to see the sun rise, it’s just a shame it happens to early.

I’ve been somewhat remiss in posting to my blog. Been trying to get a lot of paintings finished for a four day show thru the Labor day holidays. It’s long and wicked, but has usually been pretty good to me. Hope I live thru it.

Here’s a little ACEO card I currently have on eBay that has a few days left. Take a look and see what you think. It’s acrylic on canvas 2.5 x 3.5

About page…

lindahiller — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:34:34 +0000

Yesterday I did manage to shuffle things around and add a few bells and whistles. Still haven’t quite figured out all the widgets – it’s quite a bit different than ~~blogger~~ (that other place).

Today I did the about page which I will use as kind of a home page. Even though I have a web site I still plan on setting this up as one…..sorta…anyway, take a look and let me know what you think.

Testing, testing…..

lindahiller — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:30:45 +0000

ahhh…first post to try this out. Of course since this is an artists’ blog I’ll have to upload a little painting and maybe tomorrow give that eBay To Go widget a try. I’m not one of those “daily painters” although I would love to be. Heck, I’m not even a daily blogger. What I’m aiming for right now is daily editing and picking up pointers on how to get this bad boy up and running. Hmmm….uploading..

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