Okay so Melissa was interested in what I said about shamelessly creating art in a coffee shop.
Sometimes I get burned out and uninspired sitting in my bright blue chair working with my son at his schooling or working on the computer for websites and PAYPAL, or creating these art cards. So I gather up my art supplies, as it is all portable it is easy. And head out. A nice easy 10 min walk and I am in downtown Banos and in one of the nice coffee shops.
For those of you who don't already know, I love a good coffee. I celebrate it. I love the taste, the smell and for really good coffee shops: the presentation.
What I love about coffee shops is firstly the smell. Good Coffee can smell so amazing.
I look around at all the other people who have nothing better to do than to just chat and gossip about whatever( in this moment I am feeling very egotistic and french artist inspired) while pompously I have the grand ability/purpose to create something wonderful that is truly colorful, so on and commence to load my pencils and reassess my art and put color to paper. Okay so that was just silly but it was kind of fun to write. But that is the kind of silly and fun things you can imagine while quietly creating in a quiet space like a coffee shop.
I find that in really arty cafes: people around you can talk about interesting things and it helps to inspire your work. You don't really listen but you kind of do. Often in places like this, my color choices are louder, more creative and interesting.
If you are drawing people around you, it can be fun also for so many reasons, both naughty and nice depending on your mood and if you enjoy your own company and giggle at your own "mind" jokes. "Mind" jokes are easier as it never hurts anyone else's feelings, it is quite innocent, well my "mind" self is anyway. I like that about my "mind" self.
Sometimes I get burned out and uninspired sitting in my bright blue chair working with my son at his schooling or working on the computer for websites and PAYPAL, or creating these art cards. So I gather up my art supplies, as it is all portable it is easy. And head out. A nice easy 10 min walk and I am in downtown Banos and in one of the nice coffee shops.
For those of you who don't already know, I love a good coffee. I celebrate it. I love the taste, the smell and for really good coffee shops: the presentation.
What I love about coffee shops is firstly the smell. Good Coffee can smell so amazing.
Usually in a coffee shop, I like to listen to people chat, it is like a dull hum, with some soft and interesting music in the background. Then, I pull out my next bit of art I am working on. Since they are only about 5 x 7 cards, they are a little discrete and subtle. I proudly set up my lovely black (of course) Scrap'N Easelette and my beautiful clutch (Also black, but leather!) that holds my colored pencil leads and the lead holders ( Kor I Noor) and display it in front of me in an anticipatory sort of way. When it is all displayed in front of me on a coffee table next to a beautiful latte it is a work of art and they naturally go together, lovingly.
I look around at all the other people who have nothing better to do than to just chat and gossip about whatever( in this moment I am feeling very egotistic and french artist inspired) while pompously I have the grand ability/purpose to create something wonderful that is truly colorful, so on and commence to load my pencils and reassess my art and put color to paper. Okay so that was just silly but it was kind of fun to write. But that is the kind of silly and fun things you can imagine while quietly creating in a quiet space like a coffee shop.
I find that in really arty cafes: people around you can talk about interesting things and it helps to inspire your work. You don't really listen but you kind of do. Often in places like this, my color choices are louder, more creative and interesting.
Sometimes people talk with you about what you are doing and sometimes just sneak a peek. Sometimes the wait staff or owners also visit and it creates an opportunity for nice simple conversation, nothing really draining but light and easy. All the while the colors and shapes are developing and enjoying their space of inspiration.
If you are drawing people around you, it can be fun also for so many reasons, both naughty and nice depending on your mood and if you enjoy your own company and giggle at your own "mind" jokes. "Mind" jokes are easier as it never hurts anyone else's feelings, it is quite innocent, well my "mind" self is anyway. I like that about my "mind" self.
In the coffee shop your mind can roam without commitment.It is much like a potential movie or theater being played right in front of you…… The more creative, the more colorful, the more interesting, the more experimental is often rewarded because you are in a safe quiet place to do that. No one is really there to judge anyone and that allows for my freer expression. They are occupied by their things, their computer, their friend, their lover, whatever. I am still a part of the group but not really.
I read today that visual art can be like poetry or music or both, with its rhythms and flows its expressions and intellectuality, it concepts, illusions, design and strategy. I can see and feel all that. In a coffee shop you mind can bob around or be fairy like landing lightly here or there, all the while creating art, then having moments of intense Beethoven-like concentration. But mostly, I enjoy the cafe to create art with the freedom to shamelessly create and enjoy art. Let me just adjust my beret for a minute and take a sip of my cafe latte as I have a dead french impressionist to channel.
I hope that this little set of words explained that well enough.
Talk with you all a little later
wish me luck with PAYPAL.
Robin
http://www.robinmoulynart.com
I hope that this little set of words explained that well enough.
Talk with you all a little later
wish me luck with PAYPAL.
Robin
http://www.robinmoulynart.com
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