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| Sushi Roosters |
If you have run through your check list of artwork starters and blank canvas has induced inspiration-free panic, try looking at your kitchen tools for new beginning.
Full disclosure #1: I am a watercolorist who always travels with paints and paper. Even before the coffee, I am the early-rising house guest who will rifle through my host’s kitchen drawer for inspiration. I always find it.
Full disclosure #2: I know that there are purists who decry tracing as any sort of art activity, but in my constant search for interesting shapes and patterns, I will take my inspiration where I find it.
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| Potato Masher 1 |
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| Potato Masher 4 |
Kitchen tools come in wonderful shapes and all sorts of sizes. Use them to get past your empty-paper panic.
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| Tomato Forks |
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| Sterling Silver Cake Servers |
I made the first potato masher painting at my sister Elaine's house, and I now have a world-class collection which has inspired four Potato Masher paintings. Part of the engrossing challenge of these shapes is working out the connections between each ring and link, a theme that connects them to all of the nanoscapes' rings and links, which are hanging at FrameWorks Gallery in Saint Paul, MN until September 3, 2011.
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| Forest of Fondue Forks |
The Sushi Roosters, which were tricky to trace and to paint, make me smile. The cake servers were part of my 50th birthday celebration, and the Fondue Fork Forest forks belong to my cousin Theda. The Tomato Fork is my own.
While I make no claim to dictionary uniqueness -- someone else must do this, too -- I suspect that there are not many painters of Fondue Fork Forests, Tomato Forks, and Sterling Silver Cake Servers.
If kitchen tools don't inspire you, find a friend with a woodshop or wander around a hardware store. Great shapes are everywhere.
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