I'd like to say that I get ideas for my work while listening to Italian opera or whilst meditating in the Lotus position. Truthfully, they come in less classical moments, such as while I was working at an in-home daycare center. I was watching a little 2 year old Filipino boy pick up toys and throw them into a jaccuzi-like bathtub. I've moved into creating 3 dimensional scenes involving these figures eventually to put up an ebook online.
Kitties are hopping around begging for attention, there's the phone, and the doorbell.
Sometimes I set up big lights to help me work at night and feel like a dentist doing a root canal. Last but not least, there's the sounds of the TV which help me get through the long hours of my colored pencil drawings. An art customer who dropped by on short notice was disappointed to see Unsolved Mysteries coming from the box. See, I had been sorting laundry in the next room and hadn't been paying attention enough to change the station to something more, ah, cultural. That's the way it is with me.