Happy Holidays!

The urge, ability and vision to create is a solo endeavor.
-Linda Archinal


This is a skull I did for Christmas back in 2007. I have been blocked on and off since then so have not created too much. I have been posting more of my art on Facebook. Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lois-Marie-Frescura/119687738067150

Artist's Block & Facebook

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. -Andy Warhol
 
I came across this quote when I was searching on-line to read about Artist's Block. I think about creating several times a day...every single day! But have spent very few hours during the last two years actually creating. Maybe deep down I feel like it is a waste of time and that is what is getting in my way. I am still encouraged by the fact that I have actually done ANY creating in the last few months. Here is another Betty Boop drawing I was working on back in May. My how time flies when you are blocked. =0)
 
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Betty Boop FRESCURA 2010
Indian Ink and Colored Pencil on Cardstock

Hoping that it will encourage me to create some new artwork, I started a page with my art on Facebook. Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lois-Marie-Frescura/119687738067150

Finally created something...Betty Boop

Nothing too original, just happy I actually started and finished something. I hope this is the end of my creative block. I WAS blocked for over 2 years!

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Head of Betty Boop - FRESCURA 5-11-2010
Black and white drawing - ink on cardstock

Millefiori Skull by Frescura

Millefiori Skull by Frescura 3-28-2008
Colored pencils and marker on card stock

I used to think that you had to have a vision of a finished product before you started a piece. This is not the case for my art. It comes to me, bit by bit, as I work on it.

Not sure exactly when I started this. I drew this skull and filled it with circles and then set it aside. When I pulled it back out, I started filling it in with lines and color and this is what I ended up with. It wasn't until many months later that I realized how much I was influenced by the books I was currently reading about polymer clay. That is how this piece eventually got it's name over a year later. Millefiori means "a thousand flowers" in Italian and is traditionally created using glass. The books I had checked out of the library had instructions on how to make intricate canes out of polymer clay to slice into beads or disks.

I never did make anything out of polymer clay, but it had obviously influenced me. If you have never seen Millefiori, here is a picture I just found on Google.

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To see all my designs currently available on items at Cafe Press, go to:

http://www.cafepress.com/frescura

Here are a few items I just added. Click image for larger view.


Millefiori Skull Button


Millefiori Skull Banner


Millefiori Skull Sigg Water Bottle
I want one of these! =0)

On Writing...

Another fantastic book that has me very excited about getting past my creative blocks. I checked this book out of my local library because funds are low but will add this book to my collection as soon as I can. Like the "War of Art", this is definitely a book I will read again and again.

I had a dream...

I had a dream about seeing someone again and it reminded me...

"Where you used to be,
there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night.
I miss you like hell."

~Edna St Vincent Millay

Not sure if the person I miss was REALLY who I thought they were...
or who or what they claimed to be...
In the end, it doesn't really matter. The void is still there.

At Last...

FINALLY put the colored pencils to paper and "doodled" something. I see some things I like and will use another time...and many things I won't!

Colored pencil, marker on card stock.

Frecura 7-13-2009

The War of Art!

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield.

I just got this book out of the library a few days ago and I love it! I am about 2/3rds through it and already looking forward to reading it again. I have been much more productive tackling those everyday things you put off. I should be back to creating very soon...

SO tired of being blocked...

Every day I am hopeful that I will create something...maybe tomorrow will FINALLY be the day...

"Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses."

-Hindu Wisdom

Blocked...

No new art. I have been blocked for MANY months now. I still have lots of ideas but can't seem to get anything started...

"I have had just about all I can take of myself."

S.N. Behrman (1893 - 1973)
American playright and screenwriter

"If he closes off every passageway and escape route, It's because he wants to show you a secret way which no one knows."

-Rumi

Finally an update!

I have been posting my art on Myspace. Lots of art & artists!

http://www.myspace.com/msfrescura

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Sugar Skull by FRESCURA 3-23-2008

Colored Pencils & India Ink

Creativity

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

My Stimpy

A photograph I took of my Great Pyrenees Stimpy on 6-30-2006.
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Triangular

I did this in 2004. Pencil and Marker.
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Attention Please!

Sun & Sky

Have not felt much like creating lately. I did these in 2005. Pencil, Colored Pencil, Pen, and Marker on index cards. Click on pictures for a larger view.

Friends

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden,
though he may be in the fire.
Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire,
even though he is in the midst of a garden.

-Rumi, "Mathnawi" [IV, 1976-1978]

Sins

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Elbert Hubbard, American entrepreneur and philosopher
(founder of the Roycroft firm) (1856-1915)

Conscience

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Izaak Walton