Well it has not been consecutive days but here is the result of Day 3 of my 30 Day Art Challange. Heather's idea was randomly selected. Her idea was: "Sara Groves writes "I just showed up for my own life....the glory of God is man fully alive." What does it look like to choose to live fully alive. Alive to our longings- met and unmet-, alive to who we were truly created to be, unafraid of ourselves, restored, honest in the struggle of the journey we are on, showing up each day as the best version of ourselves..."
Interestingly I have always liked this song myself. Its really tough to try to produce something with a fairly developed concept in a very short amount of time. Something like his scene is what I picture when I hear this song and think about this concept. I have long been intrigued by Van Gogh's "Sower with the Setting Sun" which is about the infinite God and man shown here.
Some of you may have picked up on the likeness to that painting. In tribute to his work, and because it so not my normal style and because I only had an hour or so, I did an oil painting. It is what it is. Heather it's yours for whatever you want to do with it.
Ok, let's hear some new ideas (or un-picked ones again, whatever). I may get to a new one tomorrow night. Thanks again guys!
The selected subject for today's endeavor is Michael's by the obvious reason that he alone has submitted an idea today. Good for him! And the subject simply is, "Tea." Intertesting. I'll post the result later tonight or tomorrow. In the mean time, get some more ideas ready to toss out. Come on guys, its easy to throw something down, random or whatever, let's hear 'em.
30 days, 30 creations. For 30 days I am going to try and attempt to produce 30 new creations from your ideas. I have a family, a job, and a life (at least I consider it that) so this is tailored to fit that context. I have a problem of taking too long to move a creative idea to artistic completion. Sometimes its so long the completion never comes. I need to stretch myself on quickness and creativity. It's a speed exercise for a an artist who has become too used to running distance. Its an experiment. And hopefully it will be fun. Here's the deal: Each day I will take subject ideas from you (whoever you are) and produce something...er...creative from one of the suggestions. If there is none, I will ask someone specifically for an Idea. I will then spend some time in the evening making something related to the subject chosen. Here's the fun part... Who's-ever's idea I work on, they will get whatever I create . Hopefully that's a little incentive f
So the idea for today's 30 Day Art Challenge was Joseph's and it was " the lights at the end of the optics are different colors make up a city." He also included a link to a picture of some fiber optics lit up similar to the one above. I wasn't exactly sure what he meant by that but this is what I made. It was created in Photoshop from a photo of some fiber optic filaments and a night photo of Grand Rapids. The only other idea i had was to actually create a fiber optic city scene. You can purchase the filament pretty cheaply and I figured you could use black foam-core to sketch a city on and poke pin holes through to feed the fibers through. I could use different colored LEDs to light the fibers and it'd be pretty cool. Buuuutttt... obviously I don't have the time to order the filament (they didn't have any at Hobby Lobby, I checked) and figure it all out if I have to do this in an hour or so of my time. So this is what ya get. It's we
We had to put our 11 & 1/2 year old Bernese Mountain Dog, Annina, to sleep today. She was an amazing dog. We loved her. She had two beautiful litters of puppies. She was stubborn and strong-willed, but that made her the confindent girl she was. She was faithful and loving. Gentle and Kind. We miss you and love you Good Girl. All this has me thinking. One of the hardest truths I'm struggling with is not death right now. It is the changing of life. Death is tough, -maybe the toughest thing about life. But it is something we think about often, at least I do. I'm having a hard time with the changing eras of life. Something I don't spend too much time thinking about. Annina dying today kind of signified the end of an era for Molly and I. We were young and married. We were full of ambition and optimistic dreams. We lived in a little house down by a stream. And we had Pepper and Annina. We didn't have human kids, we had puppy kids. They were what we
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ReplyDeleteVan Kirk! This is beautiful! I am so intrigued by your whole project and am watching with interest!
ReplyDeleteThe selected subject for today's endeavor is Michael's by the obvious reason that he alone has submitted an idea today. Good for him! And the subject simply is, "Tea." Intertesting. I'll post the result later tonight or tomorrow. In the mean time, get some more ideas ready to toss out. Come on guys, its easy to throw something down, random or whatever, let's hear 'em.
ReplyDeleteKirk, it's beautiful! I have tears... It will help to inspire and remind me to show up every day!
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