Where do you draw your inspiration from?

I'm curious of a couple of questions:

1. Where do you draw your inspiration from to create new art?

2. Is this the same as motivation?

3. Where do you find time to create, especially if you are a full time employee or a parent with young children?

4. How often do you complete a piece once you begin?

5. How long does it take you to complete a piece?

I'd love to know what other folks are thinking. Here's my own thoughts:

1. Other artists, especially people I don't know. I see their work and I am either excited by it or it pisses me off that I can do the same or better or that their work is just not very good. Other people's art pushes me to create. This could be old art, new art, or something that wasn't even meant to be art. It comes from odd origins sometimes.

2. My motivation is to release the creative spirit from inside. Whether my nature is competitive, curious, or simply uncontrolled, I am motivated by the need to get out what's inside. There may even be a motivation to 'show off' as well. Having a gallery exhibition is much like being a rock star or something. I haven't done a solo show in years, but I sure miss it alot!

3. Time is so hard to find these days. Back in the 'art school days' I can't believe how much time I wasted *not* creating art, but rather being part of the art scene. Don't get me wrong, I painted my ass off back then. But now, with work and all the things that life blesses me with, it seems finding time for my own creative outlet is very difficult to come by.

4. I have not completed a painting in about several years. Many have been started, but none truly finished.

5. It can take anywhere from five hours to five months depending upon the subject matter and complexity of the piece. I work really fast at first and then plateau to a steady pace. I don't like to rush, but sometimes I make rushed decisions based on the lack of time I have (hate when I do that!).

My life, travelling, experiences, feelings

Not for me. I would like to express myself, that´s my main reason. I can´t speak about my feelings, problems and so on with everyone - but I can paint about. Sometimes it´s like a psychtherapy for me, or a healing.

It´s a question of discipline and also of your needs. I would suffer, if I couldn´t paint for a couple of days. I really need it, every day. And if it´s at least for a hour.

Mostly.

7 - 10 days.

Any other questions

Greetings from Berlin

Brita

nice paintings. when i went to your sight however, i lost my scroll bars and was unable to navigate. could be my old machine. how bout your age?

I think it must be a compatibility problem or something since I experienced the same thing. I've never seen a web page that exceeded the size of my viewing area that didn't have scroll bars to allow maneuvering. Odd! And I would really like to see more of that stuff in the 'erotic' galleries!

I´ve heard such things often today, I didn´t know, that there are problems to see the whole site. I will add scrollbars within the next couple of days. So come back later and check out the erotic paintings.

Have a nice evening

I think you're expecting that everyone has a screen size of 1024 or more. Looking at your source code, you've got a lot of editing to do in that department. I believe the common browser used is Netscape 4 with a common resolution of 800 x 600.

Couldn't javascript take care of that?

IF resolution = whatever document.write (favorite font size, favorite image size, blah blah blah)

No, it doesn't. But it's a good idea. And I have no clue as to why something so logical will surely screw up an image! Seems the best image alteration occurs in image editing software - not the web browser.

wonder why...

Nevermind. I just remembered that web browsers *resize*. Image editing software *resamples*.

I don't really know what resampling is - but I know browsers don't do it.

I can't speak to 'most image editing programs' but I can tell you that Photoshop allows one to both 'resize' and 'resample' an image.

From this web site: http://www.designer-info.com/

Came the following:

'At first sight resizing an image either up or down hardly seems to be an issue. In any photo editor you’ll find an Image Size command that lets you change an image’s dimensions. As we saw last month, however, changing an image’s physical dimensions doesn’t necessarily change its pixel dimensions. If the number of pixels remains identical all that is changed is the internal resolution parameter which sets the default size for printing.'

'Rather than Resizing what we need is to explicitly change the number of pixels in the image, a process called Resampling, or Downsampling in this case as we are reducing size. To do this in Photoshop, you need to select the Resample Image option at the bottom of the Image Size dialog which then lets you change the Width and Height settings to the exact number of pixels required (this can also be set as a percentage of the current dimensions). When you click OK, after some processing, the new smaller version of the image will appear.'