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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 93106, member: 201&quot;]Gila, I agree. I stare at an empty space or surface and my mind usually doesn&#039;t come up with much. For example, if I had started totally from scratch to create my BIL&#039;s card, I don&#039;t think I would have gotten very far. But by starting with this image and building on it (almost literally), the card gradually took shape...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]23555[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My sister was an excellent &quot;free flowing&quot; type of artist in her paintings and drawings. I look at our art work from when we were kids, and she drew graceful, lyrical type scenes at a fairly young age. I, on the other hand, drew people almost as tall as the paper with striped clothing in bold colors and wearing various bits of prominent jewelry. Clearly our minds and creative eyes differed significantly.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother, I think, could do some of both. She was a textile designer and could paint beautiful flowers free-hand, but also took elements from antique architectural and decorative arts book plates to incorporate in paisley and other decorative-arts style textile designs. And even though some or her designs were very painterly, as a textile designer she had to strategize the placement of design elements so the design as a whole could be repeated endlessly on a bolt of cloth. Without the aid of a computer, I think I would have found that daunting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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