Scrabooli Studio

After the journey of self discovery of the last month or so…. Of finally realizing that I just love textures and abstract…. I decided to start a new website that is part gallery for all the fun textures I come up with & part freebies site.

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As I mentioned in my last post, over the last little while I have been doing a lot of thinking and talking about art and what is art and what is my art like….

The last couple of days I have been trying to figure out what to focus on next. How to find a focus?

I have mentioned before that I have had trouble focusing on any one thing because there are so many different things that catch my attention…

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My whole life, I have lived with the idea that an artist is someone who enjoys sketching, is good at painting, and is able to do a good portrait by hand without the aid of a camera…

Well!

I have been doing a lot of thinking and talking in the last little while and have finally come to the conclusion that you can be an artist and not like those ways of creating art.

What really got the idea sunk into my heart though was a little walk with the sketch book a couple of weeks back….. (continue reading…)

I’ve been going through one of those ‘what is the meaning of life?’ & ‘what is the point of it all?’ moods the last few days. I’m sure everyone gets them at some point or another. … What’s more, for me, it is often wrapped up with a certain lack of enthusiasm for art. Not so much because there is nothing I want to do, but more because there is too much that I want to do and I feel like everything can not possibly done in the time that I have available (namely today because tomorrow is just too far away to think about!)…. so what is the point? if that makes sense? So there is usualy a need to sit down and prioritise again, to find one focus.

That’s what I have been doing today…  Starting with a re-vamp of this site.

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Doodle: a rough drawing made absentmindedly.

Or at least that is what the dictionary calls it. But what if there is more to it? Just how absentminded do you have to be, for it to be a doodle? What if the same ‘doodle style’ is used deliberately? When does a doodle become something else?

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I was walking on the beach a week or so back and found a little cuttle-fish bone. It was about 6 inches long and still had the little point on it. I have never seen a cuttle-fish bone with the little point on it before… Didn’t even know they existed. I would love to know how the bone fits into the critter.

Anyway… So there I was… huge big beach… the tide way out… wide clean un-foot-printed, slightly damp, smooth sand… and this neat little point on the cuttle-fish bone.

So you know what comes next, I just couldn’t resist! … …

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Dombrovskis, Piccaso, Corbusier, Tim Winton, Azimov,…. If you have heard of these artists and creators you will probably instantly identify them with a particular style or subject matter:

Dombrovskis was a Tasmanian wilderness photographer,
Piccaso was a cubist painter,
Tim Winton writes about place and community,
Le Corbusier was one of the 1st the architects to use concrete,
Azimov was a Sci-fi writter….

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I was talking to my mother on the phone yesterday, about this blog, because I was getting myself all confused as to what it is meant to ‘be’ and how it should be laid out …. is it meant to be just a burble of whatever vaguely artistic in subject crosses my mind? …. or a serious site where I can provide tutorials and tools for others and so on? … or is it primarily a folio site to display my finished work?

Which got me thinking …. …. ….  Just what is an online folio anyway?

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