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Crafty Tuesday Thinking it through
Apr. 15th, 2014 08:43 amI have an odd brain. I have known that most of my life and I am really at peace with it.
I do believe that no two people think the same way or even see the world in the same way. If I looked through someone else’s eyes, that which I call red might look green to me. I only call it red because I have been told that the reflected shade of light from an object is called red. We address colors the way we were taught to address them.
This is a freeform flow of how I get from idea to object since I was recently asked, “How do you figure that (being a replica puppet) out?”
I tend to mull and contemplate a project before even taking it from my brain to reality. My think time is longer than it takes me to make the object at a ratio of probably 4 to 1.
I sort and discard many ideas before I know how I am going to attack the problem.
I do research in possible ways of solving my issues with one thing or another.
I go through the cheap or quick solutions and figure which I can use this time.
I get to the point of needing to find certain materials (especially fabric) and then have to figure out what I can make do with to make it look the way I want it to.
There are numerous times that I try one method and figure out in pretty short order that it is not going to work. So I go back through my options and give it another go.
I am fortunate that I know so many people with a variety of artisan skills that I can go to and get other ways of doing things.
I do have an odd skill of being able to go through a store and see the potential in things that may not be what they were originally made for. It’s a great skill in thrift stores.
And there is the lucky break when I find exactly what I need when I need it at a reasonable price.
Eventually I do sit down and make the object but that is a much shorter process than getting it to where I am comfortable in starting.
I am grateful for how my brain works.
I think one of my favorite panels to be on at a convention is when people come in with something they want to make and the panel gives them all kinds of ideas on how to do it. It is even better when I see it fruition of those things that were discussed the year before.
I do believe that no two people think the same way or even see the world in the same way. If I looked through someone else’s eyes, that which I call red might look green to me. I only call it red because I have been told that the reflected shade of light from an object is called red. We address colors the way we were taught to address them.
This is a freeform flow of how I get from idea to object since I was recently asked, “How do you figure that (being a replica puppet) out?”
I tend to mull and contemplate a project before even taking it from my brain to reality. My think time is longer than it takes me to make the object at a ratio of probably 4 to 1.
I sort and discard many ideas before I know how I am going to attack the problem.
I do research in possible ways of solving my issues with one thing or another.
I go through the cheap or quick solutions and figure which I can use this time.
I get to the point of needing to find certain materials (especially fabric) and then have to figure out what I can make do with to make it look the way I want it to.
There are numerous times that I try one method and figure out in pretty short order that it is not going to work. So I go back through my options and give it another go.
I am fortunate that I know so many people with a variety of artisan skills that I can go to and get other ways of doing things.
I do have an odd skill of being able to go through a store and see the potential in things that may not be what they were originally made for. It’s a great skill in thrift stores.
And there is the lucky break when I find exactly what I need when I need it at a reasonable price.
Eventually I do sit down and make the object but that is a much shorter process than getting it to where I am comfortable in starting.
I am grateful for how my brain works.
I think one of my favorite panels to be on at a convention is when people come in with something they want to make and the panel gives them all kinds of ideas on how to do it. It is even better when I see it fruition of those things that were discussed the year before.
