crystalcookart

So it's been a really long time (about 2 months) since I did any painting. Two months is a really, really long time for me, considering I used to do a small painting nearly every day. But then we moved, and I don't know how many of you have actually had to sell your house to move, not just move from a rental, but it is a HUGE deal. It took up pretty much my whole life for about 6 months! There was so much organizing, purging, fixing, cleaning, painting, etc. to get ready for people to walk through our house so we could sell it. And then there was the hunting for a new house. Ugh. Well that part was fun, but the rest was pretty much a nightma

I've been a bad painter lately. I'm working on a very large series of paintings for a corporate commission, which is awesome and exciting but also stressful and . . . stressful. I haven't been doing my daily paintings for about a month, partly because of this commission project, partly because we just barely put our house up for sale and there has been a load of home improvements and house beautifying projects that have taken up a big chunk of my time, and partly because I've been having lots of fun and some decent success with my new clay endeavor. But mostly because I just haven't felt like painting. At all. Which is so not like me. I thin

I hope I am not opening a giant can of worms by posting this, but this has been on my mind a lot lately. A fellow creative posted this on facebook the other day: "I'm about 99.9% certain there is no such thing as a TRULY original idea. We all take inspiration from something else. We see something that touches us - and if we have the desire, we use that first look to make it something unique, something our own. It happens with books, it happens with products. It's not stealing, in most cases. If someone were to create an exact replica of something - fine. Fume all you want. However, I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that the person complai