Shaun Groves
I had lunch yesterday with a new friend who makes animated films. The great conversation took me back to high school, back when I hung out with lots of artists, back when I painted and drew as much as I played and sang.
I was in a program at school for kids who might become visual artists someday. We learned everything from pottery to airbrushing and I dreamed of becoming a cartoonist or graphic designer. But a scholarship for music and then a career in it derailed artistic pursuits.
I still pull out a canvas and paints a couple times every year. Just for fun. Just for the otherworldly experience of projecting into onto a blank page that which I only saw faintly in my head.
I marvel at the painters, designers, sculptors, photographers, and film makers the internet has introduced me to. How they tell stories visually. How technology has become just another chisel or brush in their skilled hands.
At lunch yesterday my friend said something profound about artists and art making. The longing to create, he said, has been passed down to us by our Creator – part of His imprint on us is our innate desire to create and our capacity to enjoy creation.
Enjoy.
Jeremy Cowart
Best known as a photographer, I’ve heard it said that Jeremy himself thinks of himself as a manipulator of images instead. One of his recent manipulations…
Watch The (Portrait) Eraser from Jeremy Cowart on Vimeo. Follow Jeremy on Twitter. Check out Help Portrait.
Carlos Lascano
Carlos melds stop-motion animation, illustration, story telling and computers into amazing short films and commercials. My favorite…
Watch A Short Love Story from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo. Check out more videos from Carlos.
Sean Stiegemeier
Stumbled onto Sean’s photography after that volcano in Iceland blew its lid – the one whose name no one can pronounce. I think I’ve seen every film and photograph of his now. My first exposure…
Watch Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo. Follow Sean on Twitter and see more of his films and photography.
What art are you enjoying or making these days?
Beth says:
Anneli Anderson: http://www.studioanneli.com/Studio_Anneli/Worship_Paintings.html
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JessicaB says:
Is blogging an art? Because I’m making that.
Tracy Smith says:
Well….I am trying to make new and tasty meals for my husband and 4 children.
When I add a little of this and a little of that, I sorta feel like an artist. Then everyone eats everything and I have nothing to show for it!
NancyTyler says:
I’m enjoying my spirograph.
It was a favorite childhood toy but I’m guessing Mom liberated my first one from the closet and sent it Goodwill-bound when I went to college. I rebought one recently, a vintage ’73 model and I might be enjoying it even more than I did when I was six.
At the end of a stressful day of working for “the man,” a few minutes with the pens and gears and I feel creativity return. I get lost in the swirls and whirls of pink and blue and green–perfectly measured loops in predictable patterns.
After working through months of unpredictability and situations out of my control, I get some satisfaction in remembering that a #56 gear makes a simple daisy-like pattern. Always. And the football-shaped gear makes a pinwheel. It reminds me that I get to serve and to be loved by a God who sees order and and has purpose in everything. Always.
Mandy (Gentry) Burkett says:
Thanks so much for posting this!!! LOVE IT!!! It motivated me to write my latest blog post. Thanks so much for sharing this. I always enjoy reading what you have to say.