Welcome to the February 7, 2009 edition of LVS Online students, staff and alumni Blog Carnival on Inspiration.
Participants were asked to share art their art and stories about inspiration. Submissions are categorized into Art, Classes, People and Poem & Stories. This edition of the carnival addresses sources of inspiration as well as our struggles to find inspiration. I invite you to visit the links here to find inspiration and to offer inspiration to others. Although submissions are no longer being accepted for this blog carnival, you are encouraged to share your own inspiration links and stories in the comment section.
Art
Karol’s post reminded me of my own iris inspiration on a wintery day years ago.
Karol Grace presents Longing for Spring posted at Three Dog Studio Art and Photo Journal.
Barb shares with us how a photo, a quick snapshot of a moment, inspired her to create a painting that told the story.
Barbara Hartsook presents Painted for Story… People Photo Inspires an Oil Painting on Canvas posted at Over Coffee…, saying, “People photos inspire stories, which I like to paint. This one is Kali at the Beach, and the story is “Just a Moment to Myself, Please.” I am a student in Bean Fairbanks’ on-going Blogging Studio.“
Adele shares how her childhood inspirations have evolved online
Adele presents Inspiration: Nature, Art, I Ching and Internet posted at I Ching Meditations, saying, “When I am inspired I draw that person, place or event into myself and then expel it out, like the act of breathing, involuntary and necessary for life”
By duty or design, how does inspiration strike you? This is the question Val addresses in her post on how inspiration personally evolves for her.
Val P. presents Inspiration posted at CorelDRAW Classes @ LVS Online.
Inspired by a student’s art, this LVS Teaching Assistant takes the subject matter and makes it uniquely her own.
Sliloh presents Wine and Cheese posted at Sliloh’s Rambles, saying, “Good art and good conversation really bring my creative muse out.”
Elaina shares some of her students’ art work with us.
Elaina Moore-Kelly presents Inspiration! posted at Corel Painter Classes, saying, “My students are my inspiration. They work so hard and are so happy when they “get it”. Teaching has become one of the most important things in my life and I love doing it.”
See how the inspiration and education Tina acquired at LVS Online, took root.
Tina Katnich presents Tina Louise Photography: Timothy & Jessica’s Wedding – Santa Barbara posted at Tina Louise Photography, saying, “I am an LVS alumni member. LVS got me started with digital photography when I began taking photoshop classes, and then I even took an html coding class! I received such inspiration from the classes I took I started my own wedding photography buisness! I love making magic with my camera and it all started with LVS from home! Check out my work! I’m even doing destination weddings now!”
What do you want to make today?
Many Creative Gifts presents Ain’t He Cute?! posted at Many Creative Gifts — “be thoughtful”, saying, “Not an article — just a picture of a cute crocheted axolotl that I created in response to a request. But, I hope it will inspire others to explore their creative possibilities.”
This is a late addition to the carnival but I included it because Ellen share lots of her tips for finding inspiration for art.
Ellen presents Art – Inspiration from Books and Elsewhere posted at Ellifolks: Bears, Critters and Stuff.
Classes
One outline, three apples…
Elaina Moore-Kelly presents What can you do with Painter? posted at Corel Painter Classes, saying, “I’m an instructor for Corel Painter at lvsonline.com I wanted to use this blog page to give my beginning Painter students an idea of how versatile the program can be.”
Kat shares with us how getting expelled started a whole new career and a myriad of relationships.
Kat presents LVS Online Classes Inspires Kat posted at LVS Online Classes, saying, “I am partner and instructor at LVS Online Classes. My association with LVS Online is definitely the source of much inspiration. . . .to work and continue to learn; to meet new people and experience new challenges; to remember that standing up for what’s right always pays off in the end; to live each day to its fullest; and, finally, to stop and smell the roses!”
Kat’s second post talks about how Flash has inspired her and her students.
Kat presents Flash Inspirations posted at Flash Classes @ LVS Online, saying, “We teach what we teach because we enjoy the topic we are instructing and enjoy sharing our knowledge. Our real reward comes from our students journey in learning and the appreciation that is shown on completion.”
People
When I am asked why I blog, I think of Chester and how instrumental his blog was in raising the money and support to care for him as he battled Glioblastoma
Bean presents Priceless posted at Healthy Chester, saying, “I think this post so eloquently illustrates how humor and love inspire us to live despite desperate obstacles.”
A story of one teacher inspired confidence to pursue artistic inspirations
Hillary presents Inspiration — My Story! posted at Digital Art Classes, saying, “I carried that finished oil home that night and carried it with me all around the house, totally disbelieving that I had created something I was proud of”
Sliloh challenges us and inspires us to recognize our own interactions.
Sliloh presents Are you a great mind? posted at Sliloh’s Rambles, saying, “Great minds discuss ideas…..and ideals too I think.”
Poems & Stories
Valerie casts an inspiration incantation for her readers.
Valerie Beeby presents Magic! The Spell of the Purple Owl posted at Valerie Beeby, saying, “This poem is actually part of a children’s fantasy novel I never published.”
My patio pots look much better now, thanks to the inspiration that I received in this post.
Carol presents Inspiration? posted at All About Daisies.
This post is for ‘fabricohlics’ everywhere. My garage and closets would look very different if I had this!
Deb Hamele presents The ?UFO Club? posted at Blue Barn Farm Blog, saying, “This is a story about the “UFO Club” which is a group of quilters who help inspire each other to finish their quilts.”
How do you handle inspiration block?
Marilynn presents If you could have just one . . . . posted at Marilynn’s Antics.
Adele shares her personal I Ching on inspiration
Adele presents What does the I Ching tell me about inspiration posted at I Ching Meditations.
A tale of canine motherly love.
Rainbow presents The White Love posted at My Beagle Blog.
That concludes this edition of the LVS Online Blog Carnival. Although it is too late to be included in this blog carnival, we invite you to share your own stories of inspiration here in the comment section.
Submit your blog article to the next edition of lvs online students and alumni using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Great entries one and all! You folks all have a way with words (not to mention the artistic talent)
Anita
Well. you certainly contributed to both – artistic talent and well written words.
Thanks for pointing me here. It’s wonderful to see what inspires and brings joy to other people. I was especially touched by the young man (Chester) who died. I plan to go back to read more.
Chester was a true inspiration to his students. He gave so much to them that when he fell ill we wanted to give back. The blog allowed us to rally together from literally all over the world to offer support.
Bean, it appears the blog carnival was a success. Congratulations to one and all. Excellent submissions. We are a talented group are we not?
Elaina
Well, I might be a tad biased but I would give a resounding yes answer to that question
It is good to get so many perspectives in one place. Blogging should be more about reading others posts and commenting on them. Most of us miss the point when we focus totally on “my” posts.
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This is my second adaptation on the subject of inspiration, to feel inspired is an intense and beautiful awakening of conchasnes, were many levels of the mind and ones mental perception are heightened. It is a space were you come to a realisation that your dull perspective that which you once perceived is turned and flipped in an epic explosion. It is an awakening, as if taking your first breath into a new paradise that you would have once thought you had inhaled before. Thus giving your mind reason to baith in light where it once left in darkness. Its that which we would regard no less than a miracle, a cup filled in a manner we never expected or even thought possible, our promise of the gates of heaven found here on earth. And to follow is the realisation that we are not that which we thought we once were, or in that space of time we are far from those that once stood beside us. Our awakening the outcome and a further promise not of just more but all. A moment that stands in time and lives for all eternity, a meeting with a form you once placed your hands together and prayed for, the begging of the end. a glimpse at a absolute perfect balance were you need not ask for anymore, for the riches that were to follow would leave the most beautiful being in envy. It is that which you were never introduced, a feeling brought by visual alternation by a mind you had once condemned. A truth that lived with you, a tool that lived beside you. The desire not of you or of our world but the desire of that which we would hold our breath in its name. It seems as though an outer force has invoked a great desire within you, and you have simply been made aware, and if you were unaware of a truth that lived so vigorously within you, bring yourself to why it has not yet been attained, it is not so much ability but will.
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