Words Are Pictures 1.6: Creative Vacation
I’ve been away from passion projects like this weblog, on a creative vacation and an actual vacation.
Creative vacations are essential to my creative process. I reach a point, once a year where to make any art of writing for anyone, I can only work on anything but their work. A creative vacation. I just let my mind wander through my art making materials and put together something for no other reason than to have done so.
A creative vacation requires you to make a passport to a place you don’t usually go as a creative person. See sites you wouldn’t see otherwise, meet people you never would otherwise, think thoughts you wouldn’t, if you stayed in your creative home. Like actual vacations, sometimes you fall in love with the places you’ve found and you return there often.
I saw some interesting places in the last many weeks, and return to a number of projects with a renewed fire. I have a few new techniques that I’ll be visiting from time to time as well.
I’d love to show you pictures of my creative vacation, but unlike an actual vacation, the places you go are hard to document in a way that is easy to share. (But you can enter into the region by looking up Robert Rauschenberg. “Oh the places you’ll go.” )
Among other things, just for the heck of it I submitted to the Dark Horse Conan Cover Contest. It was bit of inspired action that just sort of happened while I sought out some interesting places on my creative vacation.
Next week we’ll be right back at it with regularly scheduled Words are Pictures.
Until then, find and read Supermarket by Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson or The Comics; An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art 1895-2010. The first is a modern comics story that felt very retro to me while the second is a megaton bomb of info about comicbookland.
Check out previous WAP Installments
WAP – 1.3: Even One Word Is Progress
WAP – 1.4 Creativity in Seasons: Use What Survives
