Creative Cogitation

I have talked about being present when the muse decides to hand me her fire.  I am sure some of you have no idea what  I mean by that.

Mostly it means sit­ting my stu­dio, art­ing, even when I am really not in the mood. I am an artist, and I have some things I cre­ate with­out need­ing that blind­ing flash of inspi­ra­tion the annoy­ing lit­tle fairy pro­vides; I know basic rules of com­po­si­tion and color, I can come up with a plan, and I can whip out that dog por­trait or what­ever with no prob­lem. (more…)