Browse artists’ brains

Some of my best ideas came from art. The story in the picture may not move me, but the way light and shadow interacts with a subject, or the expression on a face might.

(I also browse design sites and art looking for cover art and illustration ideas.)

Modern thought developed from the ability to symbolize and without it we might not even have language. We painted and sculpted befoe we wrote.

[image error]concept and image meet in this artist’s journal (Palimpsest)

But art doesn’t flow directly from the artist’s brain to the canvas or page. She doodles, draws and plays and from those sketches the final image emerges. The Art Journaling Tumbler site archives a number of artist’s journals, documenting their thought process over a period of time. Bookmark it. When you need a break, instead of solitaire, browse some pages. One of the images might unblock that thought you’ve been struggling to express.

Art Journaling