In Five Years

In five years, where do you want to be? Interesting question, no? I managed to scrape aside some time today to work in my journal, and I forgot how much I missed it! Sometimes I don't realize how much I honestly need my art time, when I'm so busy in my day to day life. I've been so busy with school that I really haven't done any art at all since the last time I posted, which was a while ago. I think that I need to make sure that I set aside some time each day, especially during the summertime, to work with my art. Maybe even get up an hour earlier, so that I have a nice, art filled morning as a nice way to start my day. And then I'll make sure to come on over here and share everything with you. :)

This page had quite a few layers on it, and you can kind of see the journaling in the background. That's how I've liked to start out quite a few of my most recent pages. It kind of gets you in the mood to work on the page, and, for me, as I've been writing out how I'm feeling about the topic, I start getting ideas on how I want to work the page. For example, as I was writing the journaling for this page, I got the idea to do this page mostly in blues, as that is my favorite color, and this page is very much about me and my goals.

On this page, I decided to do a little bit of a collage on top of the painted background. Sometimes it's kind of hard for me to decide what to do on a page, especially when I haven't worked in a journal for a while (I kind of forget what choices I have!!), but this sort of came naturally to me. I sorted through some of my images that I have collected over the years, trying to look for some interesting black and while images, and any with a blue or purple tint. I had some other pieces that I had culled, but I decided not to use them. That's fine too, just put them back where you found them, and save them for another page. Normally they end up just sitting on my desk until I decide to use them, but maybe you'll be able to work up the motivation to tidy your stuff up. ;) Also, I used my typewriter from the '50s that I got for Christmas to type up some of my journaling. I also hand wrote some of it, to add a bit of an eclectic style to it.

So that's what I have for you guys today. I hope to be back on here tomorrow, and I'll see you then! But, for now, Adios!!

One Day at a Time - My Artistic Journey

I posted briefly in my last post about my life as an artist and a few of the things that I may or may not do in only a single day. I thought that today I'd go a little more in depth into some of the other parts of my creative journey. What is a creative journey? You may be asking yourself that very question. Though, on the other hand, you may not. It's all the same to me. Anyways, everybody has their own description or feelings on an artistic journey. Or a creative journey. See, there's an example right there. Some people call it a creative journey, while others refer to it fondly as an artistic journey. Some might not even refer to it as anything, but it's there just the same. I know it sounds strange; having an opinion on something, but not necessarily being aware of it. But it happens every day, in almost all aspects of our lives.

I call it an artistic journey. Because I'm an artist. And this post is to introduce you to what I think it is. Everybody has their own opinion. This is just mine. So here we go. Three. Two. One. My idea of an artistic journey are the goals that you go through to become a greater artist. Think about it. We all have creative goals. Whether they are small things, such as finishing sewing the buttons on a jacket we've just created, or if they're something huge, like one of my goals is to make and trade 1,001 ATCs, which are small (2.5"x3.5") pieces of art. Yes it's a big goal. But it's a good one. It gives you something to work towards. Something that, in all, will actually make you that much better as an artist.

These goals are important in everybody's life as an artist. If you don't have goals, then there is nothing for you to complete, thus, nothing to do. I'm not going to share all of my goals here with you, because there are far too many to list. And most of them wouldn't be exciting to anybody but me. Let's take for example, some of your goals. Depending upon what type of artist you are, you will have different goals than the next, or the previous person reading this post. For instance, if one of your goals is to cross stitch a pillow, then great; that's good. It's a goal of your's and that makes it special to you. However, to someone else, specifically artists that don't cross stitch, that may seem like a meaningless goal. At least it is to them. Since they don't know what it takes.

That's another benefit of my style of art. I do so many crafts and different types of art, that there probably aren't many that I haven't tried, or at least heard of. So I learn to appreciate all types of art, and all the goals that come with them, no matter how small they may seem to others less interested. That's my opinion. And I'm sticking to it. Perhaps tomorrow I may be able to share some of my work with you guys. I'd like that. I'd like it a lot.

An Introduction to Me - An Artist

Hello all. My name's Jordan, and I'm 14 years old. I have tried in the past to start blogs but I always suck at keeping them updated. It's really quite annoying. But those were all single topic blogs. This is for all of my crafts and art forms that I do. That means that pretty much any artist or crafter can find a good source of information here, since I do quite a few things. I've done so many things, it's verging on ridiculous, but I just can't help it. I love to work with my hands, and crafting and arting gives me that satisfaction that I need.

I do a lot of different things, such as scrapbooking, quilting, clothing, ATCs, inchies, twinchies, crochet, knitting, cross stitch, and probably a whole lot of other things that I can't think of right now. It's actually kind of sad. It's annoying. But I can't stand being without them. It keeps me from getting bored. And I can continuously change my mind about what I'd rather be doing. For example, if I'm sewing one day, the next day I may possibly get bored of sewing and put it away, getting out something else, maybe knitting or cross stitch. The next day may be ATCs. Then crochet. And then back to sewing. Maybe I'll change crafts several times in one day.

More lately than in the past, but there have been days when I've done four or five different crafts on the same day. Just the other day as a matter of fact, I was making ATCs in the morning, sewing in the afternoon, crocheted a little, also in the afternoon, and knitted in the evening. I know it's sort of weird and maybe a little annoying and unorganized to some people, but, there is a method to my madness. If I time everything just right, it all works out in then end, and I get a lot of joy and pleasure out of it. That's what matters to me. But anyways, I just wanted to post a sort of introduction to me and this blog. And the way I work.

And if you think about the way I work, then you won't be SO confused when I post about making inchies one day and the next I'm sewing clothes. That's what works for me. I live it. I breathe it. I love it.