My Creative Space.

I think my best creative energy comes in the evening and night (like when I’m trying to sleep but can’t because my head is swirling with ideas so I scribble them onto paper on my nightstand, in the dark–ooh, that’s always fun to decipher in the morning.) When does it hit you?
I wish I had time to visit blogs but I am so super busy. I swung into my Google Reader to grab the link for Kirsty’s and was met with 165 unread entries! Things aren’t working with the links, but that’s no reason to not play along this week. Or next week. Or the week after. It’s fun.

The Overpowering Necessity to Create

For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this—a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create-to create-to create—so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-Pearl S. Buck

Wishing you a wonderful and creative weekend.

Creative Niche

I was going through some old files and came across these [horrible] scans of some of my old artwork circa 2002.

I used to do a lot of portraits. But I have to admit, I’m not drawing in any form nearly as much as I used to. All of my creative energy comes in the form of sewing lately. I do paint and draw from time to time, but never for very long and usually abandon the project early on.

My whole life it seems, I spent searching for my creative niche—trying many, many different mediums. (I even had one of those rock tumblers at one point!) Now that I have found it in sewing, it almost seems a little sad. Am I done trying new and different things?

How about you? Have you found your creative niche? Do you feel comfortable with it? Or does settling leave you feeling unsettled?