Inspiration Re-invented

This new school year is into it's 8th week. I am so inspired by my seniors this year that my head almost explodes with the creative ideas and directions I want to do and go. The ideas and wants they have blow me away each week as I talk individually with them or as a group. Don't get me wrong, there are the levels of talent that are in the group, the ones that need to work hard or haven't had the proper design skill click with them yet. But they all are starving for as much information that they can get. I love it! The passion that is in that room every week is thick and cannot help but overflow and seep into me. With last years group I almost forgot what it meant to be passionate about something. Their energy was just so black and empty that it was effecting me as a creative. These Seniors this year has what it takes to take things further and put their mark on the world. I hope they understand that and I can help them get there as much as they have helped me find that part of me that I have been missing for way to long.

Along with absorbing the seniors energy, a few more things have happened in the past couple of days that have me so excited I am jumping out of my skin. A full-time teaching position would require me to get a masters. I know that I don't want to settle with a business or marketing masters. I am teaching in an art school, I want a masters in Graphic Design, my first love and the thing I am passionate about. I found the program for me, and know what I need to do to set myself up for applying for the program. I am trying to keep my hands on top of the "I don't have enough talent" side of me so that I don't drop the ball because of self doubt. (I am a strong believer that if I could just make a living out of being a student and learning as much as possible, I would do that.) But this program is the other thing that I have been looking for that will bring me back to the passion and the energy that I feel I have been missing. A learning experience that will not only benefit me, but my students that I will be teaching in the future. I never want to be that teacher that is "out of touch" so I also hope that going down this road will get me more opportunity on the freelance side. Maybe even give me the edge I need to work with people like David Butler and Kirk Richard Smith. A road that will take time and money and energy, but a road that I know will take me in a direction I never thought I would be able to go.

Projects I am working on include a wall in my foyer. I am "wallpapering" it with book pages. I can't wait to finish and post the pictures of it. (which of course jakob happened to my digital camera and I have to fix it. I feel like I lost my right arm without it.)

Jumping back on the wagon of teaching myself dreamweaver. I fell off that wagon when kadence was born and need to get back on. I have so many ideas...

Starting to revamp my portfolio. Reworking the layout and how the work looks. (Man, i need to get my camera fixed!!) Bringing it up to the level I need it to be in and the level I know I can take it to.

Happy Creating!!