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Hmmm, I seem to have a personal problem with the visual arts. As a poet, I find things that are extremely beautiful to me, and then I try to physically describe them (painting, ketching...), only to find that the finished product is, well... Crap.
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hmmmm not really :)
I have the opposite problem I think
Im a photographer, and almost all of my poems are a result of looking at or taking photos of something. Its like they (poem and photo) are born at the same time. I cant really explain it, except quite often when I am feeling a certain way, something will catch my eye to take a photo of that almost resembles exactly what I am feeling and then the poem just sort of follows, or sometimes I have a poem in my head and the photo just falls into place for me.
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I LOVE YOUR PHOTOS! hehe…
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Yup. My brain just isn’t wired up to be coordinated like that with my hands. I’m grand coordinating them for sport or computer games. But when it comes to doing any drawing I just can’t. My handwriting is terrible too. So I just don’t draw.
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Drawing with paper & pen is mich more rewarding than drawing with a mouse.. even though some CG images are unbelivebly amazeing, they just take the arom paper & pen.. -
haha when i draw with a mouse it looks as though a kindergartener did it. i like to sketch or draw with pencil, but hardly ever do i come up with something good. i can visualize a painting i want to do in my head, but i can’t visualize doing it, so i just can’t do it. i think i am good at very many things but not great at anything…
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I draw kick ass stick people. That’s about the extent of my drawing ability. I do love to paint, but when I do, it is usually on something. (I built and painted my kid’s toybox a few years back… I paint vases…) As for painting a picture… I revert back to stick people.
I don’t think artistic or creative people are limited to one specific thing. I write… I also make jewlry, dream catchers, things out of clay. There is an artistic itch that isn’t usually scratched by writing alone. My experience w/ other artistic people is it’s the same across the board. If painting isn’t your forte, find some other way to express what you can’t in writing.
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The itch… that is so true. I think if you find someone who is into the arts they will more than likely be involved in a few different styles. I write, obviously, and draw, and I dabble in photography. When I draw I always get my ideas from my surroundings, maybe something that’s happened recently, a holiday is coming up (like Valentine’s Day, I have a yearly “anti-valentine’s day” drawing). Or, sometimes a song will inspire a picture. I have a few songs lately that have me thinking about some new pictures I should get started on. And, sometimes my poetry inspires a picture, or a pic will inspire a poem. But, there are some people that can’t seem to cross the line between arts. They have one art they excel in and their minds work for that one art, I think that might be when you know that’s what you should do in life. shrug
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ooh i love dream catchers. i made a few.
you know what i love…those craft kits you can buy. so simple, but still entertaining….hehe -
art as a whole
i m an artist and a photographer myself, n i do write poems, art is basically creativity n your visualization, wether it is in the form of visual or in the form of poems.Writing poetry is another art form, an artist or a photographer put his or her imagination through drawing or pictures, an a poet expresses himself through words..
a poet is also an artist.....
beauty lies in d eyes dat see it, experience it, feel it....
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Images have always been my inspiration, whether it is photographic, painted, sketched or musical. To sit in a chair and listen to classical music has always been a trigger factor for me.
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I do have that problem. My imagination if filled with colorful and diverse world. Then all that color and diversity is twisted by my uncoordinated hand. I do draw. I practice drawing. I enjoy drawing as much as writing. It will take a while for the body, especially the hand, to learn this art. Practice with enthusiasm. That is the key.
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I started writing because I was dissatisfied with communicating through visual arts. I work with stained glass, and each piece takes something like eight different and involved processes between thinking and producing. I thought poetry would be a quick way in. Now I'm learning the truth, that there are no quick ways in. I have recently joined a forum to have comments on haiku, and my poor three-liners have undergone more revisions than I remember, changing my mind about what to wear to a dance....so I don't go dancing any more, I still work with glass, and I revise everything - except the flash of inspiration, and the need to communicate....
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