Group Logo For Words Into Image

I like butterfly Number 2 the best...most colorful, prettiest, eye catching!

This is fine art.

Wrick, I'm in the Great Basin and it is taking a long time to download these wonderful works of art you may get a couple of comments from me as I've written two already. I love these and you're inspiring me! I am working on some old metal with copper and a heat gun - looks a bit like a Raku. Ok we'll see if this comes out. Thanks for sharing such colorful works and words! Butterfly is a lovely word. Salud,

thank you Corina, Terry and Mariana

Corina - i am glad you spoke up about which you like the best, i was curious which people might choose. i like each for different reasons, but as is happening with Mariana i thought having too many large images might make the article load slow so i tried to limit what i showed (may be i should have limited it more, yikes!)

Terry - thank you, i'm delighted with your reaction to these, way cool.

Mariana - i'm sorry this has caused your loading slow and loosing comments issue, i was worried about that. now i know to try to limit the number of images in an article even more, so thanks for letting me know. i'm glad on the other hand that you find these exciting enough to inspire! way cool on that. your process sounds awesome. if it gives you a feeling of raku, i know that surface is going to be rich. will you show them here? thank you for the great effort to view this article and the works. good health and being on you! aloha Wrick

Butterfly #2 would be my choice...what inspiration the idea of "words" brings to you..can't decide if you are first a poet or an artist!!!

hahaha. thank you Donna. first i'm a human being. that's the way i like to think of me. then i'll take artist because poets are artists. but so are painters and photographers.

i think artists create, with what ever they decide to create with... of course... i also think all human beings are artists, some just may not know it yet. *smile*. thanks for your comment. i appreciate it. have fun. aloha - Wrick.

Wow! You do have a good time when you play, don't you! ;-)

hahahaha. Shari - i think you are right. i get lost when i play. that's how i know i'm having a good time.

aloha Jill, thank you. i agree it helps to see this kind of thing because it does give us ideas - it does for me too. and yes, i can get bogged down in that same way - in fact i had started out in another direction for the logo and it was not going where i wanted it to go. i've saved that stuff which also used some other things i was playing with but i then started out again with the butterfly word. it didnt go exactly as i had envisioned it initially but i just played with ideas as they surfaced, with what i was able to do. at some point things began to work together and then it was off to variations and enrichments... and take offs from that.

hawaii quilts are really cool (imo) before i was working on the computer much i designed a few. they were never made altho a number of people and some quilters liked them. since being on the computer more i've played with some simple versions of hawaii quilt like patterns but not done something specific yet - there is just too much i want to do, hahaha. the computer is a great place to work out that kind of idea.

your works inspire too, Jill. things you have done will eventually surface in me. i know this is how it works for me with things i like - i follow the process and evolve it in my own ways until i find the right place for it in my own way. we are gregarious beings and we do learn from those around us in many ways even when we do not realize that is exactly what we are doing.

i also agree that art, environment and experiences all pull together in developing a person/artist. and yes, if we stay open and young in our thinking and mind we can grow through out most of our life - that's the way it seems to me. i do respond to what is around me where ever i am. sometimes in local ways and sometimes in ways that combine local ways and past experiences - everything we are and have experienced, is what makes us unique - like no other being ever, the more of that we get into our work the more our work becomes the uniqueness of us. every place, every moment has something to offer combining that with what we bring to the place and moment creates a blossom unique to that moment. all we have to do is open up and play with it. use it in our creative capacity and off we go, yes. thank you for pointing these things out Jill. have fun. - aloha - Wrick.

I like butterfly # 3 the best, Wrick this is amazing how you use words to create such a beautiful image.

thank you Jennine. sometimes things seem to work in amazing ways once i begin to toy and play with an idea. some things seem to fall into place better than i can imagine - almost as if by magic. somehow it seems like sometimes someone or some thing else has a guiding hand in a process which is fun. a spirit? a muse? angels? what is that thing, or being that is beyond us yet also within us? thanks for helping me to think about this. cool. i'm glad you like it.

Wrick - you're a genius. Wonderfully imaginative. I still can't make up my mind which of these "butterflies" I like the best. Could I please "keep" all?

aloha Vinay - you know i have that same problem.

Hi Wrick,
Another wonderful expression of your visual/verbal process. I really enjoyed the comments between you and Jill about how the environment or context in which a person creates can have a great effect on an artist's work. Your choices of landscapes, flowers, angel sculptures in cemeteries, etc. has given us a glimpe into your world there in Hawaii as well as your inner vision. The evolution of this butterfly as a piece of art reflects the evolution of you as an artist. Very nice work, Wrick!

aloha and mahalo Crow. i think the dialogue that goes on in these comments, even tho they are essentially between two people has a lot of potential value for others. that's one reason i like to respond here with things that others may have an interest in, too.

thanks for pointing that out and reading. some people are able to get me to talk on and on about something. sometimes i am very silent. i'd like to think that i am still growing as an artist. dialoguing is one way to grow. cool. thanks Crow. aloha - Wrick