http://sharikaroland.com/blog Reflections on Creativity and Life Wed, 09 May 2012 23:26:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/relax/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/relax/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 23:24:51 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2821 I have friends that are sophistacated. They are very elegant and refined and charming. Every once in a while they let their hair down and act silly for a couple of minutes. I yearn for those minutes like crazy. I wish half the time was hair down time not just a little leaking out. Laughing [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/relax/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/spectacular/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/spectacular/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 14:10:30 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2816 What value do you give to dreams. Most people give zero value to them. Not me, I get dreams that are life altering sometimes. I have had dreams where I figured out a problem. I have had dreams that opened doors. We never stop thinking. Every minute of every day we think think think. WE [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/spectacular/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-game/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-game/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 03:28:40 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2810 Sometimes I like to play a game called. Imagine anything. then I focus really hard on what I would do if I could do anything I wanted for 24 hours. I laser beam think about this for a few minutes and then imagine what I would do if I could do anything for 12 hours, [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-game/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/corrections/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/corrections/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:56:00 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2805 When you paint you are doing nothing more than making corrections to the line you put on one second ago. You go over and over it till you find the voice of the painting and then you listen to that voice and obey it and paint it and that is how you get a painting. [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/corrections/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/when-we-are-content/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/when-we-are-content/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:02:43 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2800 There is something in us that is not content with now. I find I cannot wait to get started then I can’t wait to finish then I can’t wait to see what happens then I can’t wait to get the next one done. All the while missing the enjoyment of just being where I am [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/when-we-are-content/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-portal/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-portal/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:16:10 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2797 Artists create work from somewhere inside them. Nobody just paints what they are looking at. They always paint what is inside them. And you can’t hide what is inside you. If you are full of rage that is what will come out. Even if you do a still life. If you are full of contentment [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/a-portal/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/copies/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/copies/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:32:55 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2790 My mother was asking me why it mattered who did the painting as long as you liked it. Artists use other artists ideas all the time to jumpstart a new idea. We all need constant feeding of our creativity or we dry up. I really don’t care if someone likes something I am doing enough [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/copies/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-little-things/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-little-things/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:07:49 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2788 There are no big things in this world that we have to do. We all have  only little things to do, one at a time and all together it makes a big thing. All I have to do right now is write one word and then really only one letter at a time. I don’t [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-little-things/feed/ 1 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/art-class/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/art-class/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:41:47 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2774 When you are young and have a fire in your belly to be an artist = this is what it looks like. no no nonononononnono. Something in you says you have to make art and you will make art and  the teacher is just a launching pad. that is what teaching should be. There is [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/art-class/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-loss/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-loss/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:18:20 +0000 Sharika http://sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=2758 Sometimes you have a friend that is an instant friend. You meet them and 10 seconds later you feel comfortable with them enough to relax and be yourself because somehow you feel like it is ok with this person to be like that. When I first met Karen Cartwright she was sitting in her little [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-loss/feed/ 0