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Inspired Visions: Year in Review and Creations

[00:00:00] This is Inspired Visions, a space where we discuss art that brings you back to yourself. I'm your host Ash, the artist in which behind Studio 4, 2 9, I create visionary art, talismans and divination tools that provoke reflection, spark intuition, and reveal new ways of being. Let's dive in.

All right, here we are. Welcome to the first episode of Inspired Visions. I'm Ash, your host and local artist and witch, and I am starting a podcast. So I've been agonizing over this the entire year and. I finally realized today as I was driving home, I'm just going to run this how I run all of my other creative projects, which is to just start where I'm at and I'll figure out, out as I go.

So instead of trying to make it [00:01:00] perfect and trying to make it how I see others doing it or how. I see my final vision for this podcast, I'm just gonna start with where I'm at and where I'm at is December is the end of the year and I am thinking about like the review of the year and I do my normal review and reflections of the year at the end of October, early November, because I just start that cycle then, where the winter months are more of that hibernation not doing as much, but it's still, because we live in this calendar year, it's still the end of the year. So I'm still thinking about what I've accomplished over the year and what I look forward to next year. So what I want for this podcast is to be a [00:02:00] place where I can talk about the art that I've created, or I can talk about how you create your art.

I see. You know, talking about the psychology behind art and why we need it in our lives, and I see this as just a space where I can share the stories behind what I create, why I create, and why I believe everyone should create something, no matter your medium. So to get us started. I'm gonna talk about the art I've created this year, which has been wide and varied because I am an art education major.

So I went back to school and now I am doing all these other art forms that I didn't expect to be doing. So sometimes I sit down and think why I haven't really finished? Many drawings, but then I look at all of the [00:03:00] other things I've created. I'm like, oh yeah, I have not stopped creating all year, which I love and my office does not.

My office is very conflicted over how many different mediums I create with, let's face it, the bank account is also conflicted about that, but I try my best to work with what I've got and or, you know, start small and grow from there. I've also used a lot of supplies at school because that's what we're there for.

So this past semester that pretty much just wrapped up today was metalsmithing and printmaking. So I've done a lot of my art there. Using those studios and the materials that came with the tuition fee for the year. So [00:04:00] I have gotten a lot there. I have also done. Some drawing because that, I still consider that my main medium, even though I do so many.

But I have finished some drawings. I've finished some really amazing pastel work. It's amazing to me because I look at it and think, wow, I can't believe I did that. So I've done some really great pastel drawings, some really nice colored pencil drawings. And I mean, I've done a ton of jewelry over the year as well.

I really dove deeper into. Drawing actual scenery and things on my jewelry instead of just doing random designs. So I've taken a lot more time to create each of those pieces. So I may not have made quite as many. Pieces of jewelry over this year as previous [00:05:00] years, but it's been more detailed and it's definitely gotten out there more to more people.

I've even started doing some jewelry commissions this year, which has been fun to see what people want to create with me. And you know, I had one that was from. A keyboard that had broken on her computer. So she wanted me to use the K key to put in a necklace to give to her IT person who always made fun of her for having a broken keyboard.

So I've had some really fun commissions like that. I also just got to finish some. We do board plan shut earrings for a woman who has bought a few other pieces from me over the year. That was a really fun commission to do as well. So I've had a wide [00:06:00] variety of things that I've done and now I am expanding more into.

That printmaking side as well, because I did not realize I was going to like it as much as I did. I, it was a class I needed to take for my degree and I just figured I'll get the assignments done and that'll be that. But as. Dove into the printmaking process and getting into Lino cut. I've actually really loved it and I ended up assigning myself a couple extra projects over the semester that I also printed while I was there.

So that was also a really interesting way to explore my creativity because in the colored pencil world, everything. Is very detailed. Like you get that sharp point on your pencil and [00:07:00] you can put every line exactly where you want it. You can put every little piece right where you want it, and while it's not the easiest thing to erase, you really are able to.

Remove color or color over and adjust. Whereas ldo cut it has allowed me to be much looser in my artwork, and if you accidentally cut it apart. It's gone. Yeah, I can't put it back in. So that has also helped me loosen up quite a bit in my art style and start to share some other sides of, I guess other sides of my mind.

This is inspired visions after all. So other things that have come through in dreams and. Thoughts and beliefs. [00:08:00] So those prints are just getting started and I'll keep adding on to them as we go. I have also over the semester, done a lot with metalsmithing since that was one of the classes and I've created some really cool things that I did not realize I could do.

I've definitely learned some really cool new techniques that I am excited to explore further. I know I'll need a lot more tools in my own studio in order to do a lot of those things, so that's not something that will be as prevalent in my work until I'm able to build up those supplies or have access again to the studio at school.

It's still something that's been really inspiring me for these last few months. It's definitely my favorite space to be is in that [00:09:00] studio creating you know, we've done a lot of so pierced. Work and we did one that was called Puzzle Inlay. That was my absolute favorite. It was so exciting to be able to create these this little locket that had both copper and a nickel, silver inlay with it.

I really loved that project and I want to do more like that for sure.

Okay. So to bring it back to where this is all leading us to,

I have no idea. I have lost my train of thought. So this is the first episode. As we go, I'm gonna talk about specific art pieces. I am going to share what's coming up. Okay, so my top three favorite pieces of artwork that I did in the last year. [00:10:00] One would have to be the puzzle in Le Locket. It looks like a little orange slice and that is definitely gotta be one of my top favorite pieces of artwork.

I also drew a fruit bat, or no, what is it? No, it's a flying fox, I believe. That was another one of my favorites. It's just one of those pieces where it felt like I really understood the materials and kinda leveled up for myself. And so that's one of those pieces I look at and just think, wow, I can't believe I really did that.

And number three,

that's a tough one. The third favorite project of the year. Hmm. I'm kind of looking around my office to think about like, what have I done? What can I see from where I'm sitting?

I'm kind of scrolling through to see like what kinds of things have I created, what other things have I created? Oh, I know. The third favorite piece that I have created this year is these. They were really simple bezels that I soldered together. They were just these really simple open back [00:11:00] bezels and I filled them with my glow in the dark resin and little pentacles just, you know, a talisman.

They were small, they were glow in the dark. And you know, I had soldered the medal together and I was excited to sell those at the markets. And one day I was at school working and a woman walked by wearing one and I was like, Hey, I know that jewelry. So I think that's. One of my favorite pieces from the year just because it was really cool seeing someone wear it just in an everyday setting.

And she said that she wears it all the time. So that was really exciting. And let's move to exciting things for next year. I haven't fully sat down to. Figure out my goals for the coming year. I do some of that in the end of October, early [00:12:00] November, space, that sound space. But this year I honestly didn't take too much time for it.

I did my normal annual card pulls and did you know my. Oracle and tarot readings and everything, but I didn't really take that and solidify it into actual goals yet or visions yet, but. Sitting here, starting this off the top of my head, some of the things that I really look forward to in the coming year are doing more card creator coven classes in person.

I did just a couple to explore. This year at a really awesome studio space that's just getting started, and I have another class in January coming up. So I am excited to do another class teaching you how to create your own [00:13:00] Oracle and tarot cards. So I'm excited to do a few more of those classes in that space.

I am also looking forward to. Doing more. I always, I say this every year, I'm excited to do more colored pencil drawings, more wall art, and I just got some of my art up in a local cafe. So I'm hoping that as we roll through the year into summer months, then. That will pick up and, you know, people coming through, people traveling will find artwork that they really like and that'll be able to add more pieces there to their walls.

I'm also opening. The door to more murals. I did one a couple years ago that I really loved and I'd like [00:14:00] to do that. More of that, I would really like to be able to put artwork, scenery, maybe business logos on walls or even outdoor building spaces. I'd really like to be able to do that some more.

And I would also like to find popular markets this summer. I've done a few market circuits in the past that were, you know, we had some good days, but there were also a lot of days where it's kind of just. US makers there instead of having a lot of foot traffic. So I am definitely looking forward to finding some good markets that have a ton of people where I am making the majority of my income just in a handful of weekends because there are so many people coming through.

So [00:15:00] I have some ideas of where I'll look this summer and. That's a lot of what I'm looking forward to. I hope to keep doing some prints here and there and some metalsmithing here and there. I'd love to be able to still add in some of those metal pieces to the jewelry that I'm already creating and. I hope to have some time in between classes and in between work schedules in this next year to be able to create some more of these things as well.

And one of these days, seriously, I am going to actually have my office organized so that I can really function in here. I always end up rearranging at least once or twice a year to figure out a better. System for all of my things, but then I end up in a [00:16:00] new semester of classes finding new mediums that I really like that I wasn't expecting to like, so I end up needing more organization.

But here's the first episode. Here's where we're starting as we go, I'm going to be. And you can hear my dog now.

As we go, I'm going to start adding in discussions about specific art pieces and ways that I share art and the psychology of art, and how to receive those inspired visions so that you can create art you love and resonate with as well, and how we really incorporate this all into our lives. So I hope you have had.

[00:17:00] An amazing year. I hope you've created some really cool things this year. No matter your medium, and I will see y'all next time on Inspired Visions. I.