Hello Blog Hoppers,
Today I am thrilled to introduce you to Christine Atkins. Christine's blog can be found at
http://www.christineatkinsart.blogspot.com/. I took a very enjoyable tour of her blog and her website Her passion for her work is evident. She works with an amazing array of media and is a master of all of them!
Here are some questions she answered for me for the blog hop:
What 4 tools can’t you live without?
There are many tools I can’t live without but my main four
would be my drill, hammer (what can’t you fix with a hammer), pliers and my
workbench.
After art, what else
is your passion?
ART ART ART
My art rules my life, when I am not in my day job I am
tucked away in my studio. I pretty much
only venture out when I have to eat, take the dog for a walk or the dust balls
become a hazard around the house (or I need to clean up for visitors).
What aspect of teaching do you love
the most?
What I get most out of teaching is experiencing others'
creativity. I feel as a teacher you
always have something to learn from each student. They will take what you are showing them and
incorporate their own symbols and journeys as well as different skill sets into
creating a unique art piece. This would
be my favorite part of teaching as well as meeting like-minded creative people
who are passionate about the same thing as me.
Do you have a favorite technique?
I go through phases of favoring different mediums and
techniques. At the moment I am focusing
on metal sculptures through lost wax casting and one-off jewelry pieces,
however my artistic beginnings had its roots in fiber art. I have a short attention span and like to
constantly push my knowledge and skill so when I have reached a plateau in one
medium I will move to something else to learn.
I think as human beings we have an innate drive to learn, create and
move forward.
Do you work in a planned or
intuitive way? How would you describe
your approach?
I work in a mixture of ways from sketches to ideas in my
mind to just beginning a piece. The
majority of my work starts out as a completed picture in my mind, but when I
begin it takes on a life of its own and frequently ends up different from the
original design. I let the materials
lead the design where it wants to go.
What advice do you have for someone
beginning their art journey?
Create Create Create.
Practice makes perfect
And most importantly there is joy in the creating not only
the finished product. (That is the art
therapist in me talking).
Leave a comment on my blog and I will choose one winner to receive a packet like this from Judy at Artistic Artifacts. I was there when they were assembling them the other day, and the packets are filled with all kinds of goodies! I will also include one of my steampunk bird charm necklaces, shown below.
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