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posted July 08, 2003 07:00 PM         

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I noticed that when I am working on a project I get extremely self-involved (more than usual) and I get very blunt with people. I wanted to know if any other artists get that way. Or if I decide to not be blunt because something or someone else is around vying for my attention and I give them some, my work suffers. I wanted to know what you thought about that and does anyone else share that experience.

Or maybe people (including me) just take on a certain amount of other people's energy and I cannot do that when I am working because it de-purifies my energy because the other person is in a certain state (not my level of pureness)? Or not on my vibe? What do you think?

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posted July 09, 2003 01:18 AM         

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Hey silverbells
i wont call myself an intense artist, but i guess im pretty self involved at times, like when im watching tv sumthing really important, or when im painting..i dont even if people around me exist. i guess its the aquarian in me who likes to try out differnt things and not be pulled or forced to do a particulsr thing. my mom gets pretty upset at times, but shes a very understanding saggi
i wish i could do something about it, i would love to be a normal person for once
and hey silverbells whats your sunsign?
bubyee!

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posted July 09, 2003 01:20 AM         

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posted July 09, 2003 03:29 AM         

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Pink Angel-Hey, my mother says I get really introverted and mean but she's stopped getting angry about it at this point, my mother is a Gemini I'm a Sun Sign Libra, Scorpio Moon.

Lunargirl- Yes right on (about riding the personal vibe and creating the art from within.) Thank YOu I feel good about you saying that.

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posted July 09, 2003 02:03 PM         

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Thanks for the transplant

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posted July 13, 2003 06:32 AM         

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Hi Silverbells,

When I am writing, which I consider to be my art, I have to be completely isolated. I will isolate myself to the point of driving 2 hours to go and sit in the mountains as far away from people as I can get.

I wouldn't call it self-absorbed, but more that I am in a different space, mentally. Almost as if my writing is "stream of consciousness". I can't get to that place if there are any people or anything around to disrupt me.

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posted July 14, 2003 01:53 PM         

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posted July 14, 2003 03:36 PM         

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Yes, I like stream of conciousness better than self-involved because I can relate to that term better. I do need to have minimal distractions in order to get back to myself (at the moment) and "ride my personal vibe"

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posted July 22, 2003 01:47 PM           

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i could be considered intense in my music (sometimes)

generally my visual stuff tends to be too thought-through however as working in 3D/DCC stuff is still a very mediated..uhh..medium

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posted July 22, 2003 03:18 PM         

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You're music had a visual counterpart?(visual that everyone, not just trained psychics can see)?
N_wEvil, what is your sign?

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posted July 23, 2003 03:43 PM           

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sorry, i wasnt clear in my explanation

I'm trained as a 3D animator but i compose music as a hobby as well - I always have ideas for visuals in my head but they're too difficult to realise, unfortunately

Most of my music comes out as pure intense feelings - if you can tune in on it at all.

Gemini Rising/Aqua Sun/Cancer Moon here

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posted July 23, 2003 04:48 PM         

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Ahhhh.

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posted April 29, 2004 01:03 PM         

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Done any artwork lately, Silver?

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posted May 12, 2004 11:31 AM         

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posted May 12, 2004 11:44 AM         

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Randall, funny that you are bringing this back to the top, as I wanted to respond before, but keep putting it off. Not a big deal, but I guess since you brought it up again, I can contribute.

I was the little one in kindergarten who was smack dab in front of the eisel, not budging from the paper until I had finished a picture, and this brought me great joy. I tend to be quite scattered, I have all these pleasurable interests (maybe my fifth house Venus?) But one area of focus has always been art. Any kind.... I focus solely on it until I have it out of my system.. we are talking dehydration, even... Before I had my daughter, my son got self set modelling clay for christmas, and I tried it out.. I was at that table, no less than eight hours..... when I found I had a knack for it. I took a break, still glassy eyed and distracted and then went at it again all night. It goes in cycles though. I am a bad mom, nay, a bad anything other than artisan, when I am focused on my art. Therefore I have to keep perspective and anchor myself.
Intense artist? Yes.

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posted May 24, 2004 01:08 PM         

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posted May 24, 2004 04:13 PM         

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I have not done any art lately, for some reason. I have the most driving life or death motivations to do art when I get "depressed"; like "destitute" "depressed". That is the moment of almost comprehension and stillness, I've never followed through with an art when the destitution arose because I was too busy being destitute, it was only the other day that I realized what was really going on. That is why I question whether "depression" is really what it is thought to be in all cases.

I've gotten glassy eyed a couple of times when I was doing crafts, It was like a mania. Especially with woodwork - forget about it.

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posted May 25, 2004 01:15 PM         

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Woodworking!

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posted May 25, 2004 06:48 PM         

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Do you woodwork and what do you make? (if the answer to the first question is yes.)

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posted May 26, 2004 01:41 PM         

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Just good memories from school. Haven't done anything since.

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posted May 26, 2004 06:25 PM         

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At least not since Ralph's 'finger incident'

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When I was young teens, till late twenties, I was an artist. Sincerely, I was very good. I could copy anything, and had my own creations too. I could work in any medium even crayons when there wasn't anything else around. The really odd part of being so intense, is that I could go for days without eating, sleeping, or drinking. Like some hypnotic state. My professors in school would get pretty upset when I would produce an assignment overnight or the like that was supposed to be an entire semesters worth of work. At my thesis, a man from a local design firm told my instructor I was either a genious or the biggest fake he'd ever seen. The down side, I do not remember ever being there while the work was being created. I actually felt guilty taking credit. I am no longer an artist, but I can spot a good thing when I see it.
Good luck all of the artists out there, you more than likely have a gift worth being stingy about. They can see it when it's done!!! P.S. Try not to forget to eat!

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posted June 07, 2004 10:54 PM         

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I'm not too good of an artist, considering all I do is sketch head portraits of people I imagine in my head. But man, I really get into it. I'll spend three hours on a drawing and it'll seem like it's only been 3 minutes.

All I do in classes that are boring is doodle. I'll doodle something really stupid, like a line or something, and then create it into something else as I go along. I put not mental thought into it, I just let my hand go free and do whatever it wants. It's weird.

I consider writing and reading an art too. During the summer I mostly hole myself into my room, reading, writing, and I absolutely love it. My uncle always used to call me an introvert, and I really am- I just enjoy my alone time, the time I use to think and reflect and learn. It's a bit unhealthy, because I'll go days without even leaving the house, but those are the times when I've made my biggest revelations. I just get really involved into things that I do. Maybe my Aquarian Mercury? Dunno.

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posted June 08, 2004 01:13 PM         

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Lots of artists around here.

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posted June 10, 2004 12:26 PM         

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Yes I embellish fabric to sell by the yard to designers and stores, and I sew home furnishings, along with my partner. I paint, and draw using every medium I can get my hands on.This summer I am tackling sculpture again, but I am starting on small projects only. I make everything myself, clothes, jewelry, household items, everything I can do.

All the Aries and Scorpio in my chart is good for artistic expression, it's the only way I can "talk". I get very sensitive to criticism and often consider myself a factory worker, all work and no appreciation. I think it was Andy Warhol who called his studio The Factory, and said in the future art will be mass produced.
It's true, it' the future.

I get very intense, sometimes I won't eat for 2-3 days, just have water and work, work. I get up at dawn every day, I love the early morning hours now because no one is around yet.

I have met a few photographers who were really intense. Painters can be intense, but mainly they are just absorbed. My work is very Neptunian and feminine. I use a lot of circular and rounded figures, I like full figured people and portraits. I prefer asian and african art to european. I was told that circles represent the womb and that I am trying to get back there.

Ideally I would love to give lessons to children, but that's a ways off. Anyone who wants to donate to that cause, please let me know. We need more people who can teach. I am not much on watercolours, only oils, pen and ink or plain old pencil. I am very inventive with materials.

Natasha
Taurus Sun opposite Scorpio Neptune
Uranus trine Sun
Cancer 8th house Moon
Mercury in Gemini/7th house
Scorpio Ascendant/12 house
Mars/1st house Sag
Venus Aries/4th and 5th houses

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