Sharika Roland

I am going to do a line of dessert plates with my images on them. then I want to do a whole set of dinnerware and call it sharikaware. I am telling you this because I dont even know how to do it but I am going to walk toward the light.

There are so many possibilites to print the plates up. China is a big one , and New York . They cost way way way to much to manufacture one by one so Have to go to mass production. So I am wondering if just doing this by looking at the internet is a good thing or hire a professional. Well with my website it certainly was worth the money to hire a pro so maybe I just answered by own question.

The great thing about being an artist is you own the rights to your images even if you sell the painting. That is so nice otherwise everybody would be stealing ideas all the time. that said I do steal ideas all the time but I rework them to make them mine. So I guess it isn’t stealing it is reusing.

Don’t you want to see the dinnerware right now? I mean yesterday. Don’t you just want to see them and then go to this amazing dinner party with all these interesting people. Well don’t you??? I will tell you what the pro says.

Most artists I know live with great exuberance. I cant even think of one that does not. By that I mean that they drink in everything that comes their way good or bad. It is an artists nature to use everything for their work. It is impossible to remain outside looking in.

This makes for two hard things. We seem crazy at times to others and we get our feelings hurt a lot. But that is a very small price to pay for being able to absorb what you have been given. Artists are the safest people I know because they are the most vulnerable.

When I don’t like someone else’s art I never never tell them. They are only doing what they need to do to live and I am nobody to crush a spirit. You do not need a tough skin to be an artist. It needs to be pliable.

I am just trying to give any reader a little insight into the world of a job that picks you. An artist does not decide to be an artist. You can’t not do it. So be gentle with those who live in this place of creativity. They are tender souls just  breathing. If you don’t like something , just remember that the world would be a very different place without any visual arts. all of them are a gift whether you like it or not.

I did some paintings with the idea that these were just for me. I painted what I wanted to look at every second and this is what came out of it. It was a freeing feeling to just paint like I was on a desert island and nobody but me would see them.  I looked at them when I was done and realized something.

The real me is color crazy. I could not get enough color on the canvas. I think the results are wild abandon paintings and like being here in this space right now. I need energy to put out and I need the paintings to help me do it. We are working together to build a life and I do want a big life so I have to paint a lot.

I am getting a picture of where I want to go with this art life. What I want is to sell so many paintings that we can go anywhere and paint. I do want to spend a lot of time painting other places besides France. Bali comes to mind and Italy and also Chile. And Mexico and New York. I want to spend time in Venice painting. That is the agenda for the next 10 years and I hope I can do all of them. Then I want to stay home and be a person who gives every penny she made away before she dies.

What do you want to do before you die?

Every once in a while I will paint over a painting that I feel is not as good as my new work. Many people have freaked out and said that if I needed a new canvas they would just buy me one. But that is not the point. If I can stand to  paint over a painting then it is not as good as I thought originally.

Some paintings I would never paint over no  matter how long it takes to sell. I would even go so far as to say that if I can do it,  then I should do it. Even though there have been occasions that people have wanted to buy an old painting and now it has been painted over. That is just the way it goes.

There have been a few that I miss now and wish I had not killed them. One such painting comes to mind. It is this one you are looking at now. I miss her and wish I still had her around. I think other artists do this too and would love to hear from any that have done this.