Hi everybody, this is Cindy Utter. Welcome to my RT&Evers. Have fun! Hey guys, Cindy Utter here with my RT&Evers. I am here to share something with you today, which is inspiration. Where do I find it? What happens when my my muse is just kind of like eh? And how do I get it back? Alright, so real quick, first of all, I'm freezing, so yeah, I have long, I have short sleeve shirts on, but my hands are really cold. I'm always cold. Anyways, let's try this again. So inspiration, where do I find it? What do I do? How do I get it back when my muse decides to go on vacation? Right? So there's a few things that I do. The first thing I do is I get this little notebook out. What this little notebook is, it's something I covered with a bunch of stickers. This is a notebook where I will go to play or sometimes sketch, sometimes just doodle, but this. This right here is what gets me going. This is part of it. It's one of the things I look at. I just start looking at these little designs, and I think, ooh, yeah, I like that idea. Sometimes I look at them and go, yeah, those are cool. Okay, but this is a book that I love to play in. I will do everything like I said from doodles to whatever drawings, things I don't like. I'll decide to do a little drawing, play with some more owls, birds. Here's another one. All right, so I'm just giving you an idea into one of the things that I do. I've got a lot of sketches in here. A lot of times when I'm waiting for lunch, I'll do something at the dinner table. I'll just do a sketch, but this is one of my go-tos. All right, so that's one of them. So if I open this up and nothing really hits me, I mean, there's more stuff in here. I play around with markers, just whatever. All right, so that's the first place I go. Let's say nothing in there inspires me. This is the second and the third place I go. What this is, this is a regular composition notebook, and what I've done is I've covered it and then I put clear packing tape over it so that it won't come apart. And this is exactly what it says it is. It's art journaling by Somerset Studio, and what I do, I'm going to move this guy out of the way for a minute. That one's heavy. Is when I get the art journaling journal of magazines or some of the Somerset Studio magazines, what I will do is I will go ahead and I will cut out things that caught my interest. So it may be the color combination on this, the purple and blue. I really like that. This, I just love the background. I love how much of the background is you can see, and then there's just a little bit of stamping over it. This, the texture, I thought this texture was really cool. Okay, so anything that I see in these magazines, I will cut out and I taped down in this book. So something about each one of these has spoke to me. It could be a color combination. It could be the way she found poetry. It could be their handwriting. Any of it. So this book, I've got a couple more I've got to put in here, but this book is all about other artists that have inspired me in some way. I love this. I just love the way she did this, this dial, this girl. I love it. Okay, these are awesome. Look how big she is compared to the city. I thought that was cool. You know, color combinations. So this is the second place I go if I need inspiration. All I have to do is flip through here and something will speak to me. Right now it's that. I love this. I look right here. If I was looking for inspiration, I would stop right here and I'd be like, okay, I love the yellow and the black and a little bit of gray. So this spoke to me. I would take my journal out or whatever I decide I'm going to work on. And this is where my jumping off point. Okay, if it has inspired me, I would just keep going and just look. Again, it could be anything on these pages. I love the way these circles have these spikes on them. Those are really cool. I love the texture on this. I love the fact that it's all neutral with the exception of the black writing. Okay. So this is my second place to go for inspiration. This, I love the fact that look at all the wash you taped that was used. And it just looks so cohesive and I love it. This is so simple, simple, background with a few, you know, doodle flowers. Fantastic. Okay. Now, when I say I go to these for inspiration, I do not copy what I see in here. I use that as a jump off point. Like, okay, ooh, I really like this. I love the texture. So then I would get out my journal and get out my textures and start playing with textures. And that's where it would go. All right. Now, let's say I go through this book. I don't really find anything that really caught my eye. Then I go to this next one. This one is the big baby. This one, I have a lot of huge sheets in. Some of them are the same as those, but most of them are not. These I've actually pulled out sheets because I liked both the front and the back and I couldn't get rid of them. So again, this is another place that I go to for inspiration. This I think is really cool. I just love the way this neckline is done. All right. So that's really cool. That inspires me. So if I go with that yellow in the black and then something of this design, you know, there's my jumping point. All right. I just, I think these people are just really cool. So these are the three main places that I go to for inspiration. Now, let's say I've went to these places. I've went to my regular little notebook. I went to my two art journaling spots. Nothing's catching me yet. The next thing I do is I take one of my grab and blue books and I'll sit it down on the table. These are already collage per se. And I start throwing down color. I will either take, usually it's these, the poscos. I will just start playing. And once you get a color in your hand and you actually start playing with it, the inspiration for me comes back. Okay. So I will just start playing with my paints. And that's how I get my inspiration going. Now, if I don't have any of these things handy, let's say that I'm away from home and I don't have all of my supplies with me. Okay. Then I will turn to Pinterest. I do like Pinterest, but what I found is I find a lot of the same style of things. And I like to look at just different artists views on different things. See, so now this has got me going. I'm already going. I like this. I love how it's looking. So hey, let's start on another color. Very cool. So I just wanted to share with you guys how I get my inspiration going. What I do. And you know, I would love to see some comments. I'd love to know what you do. How do you get your inspiration going? Where do you get your inspiration from? Okay. And when you're when your muse decides to go to sleep, what do you turn to? These right here are my major go-to's along with this and my grab and blue books. Okay. I may just take out one of these drawers that's got a bunch of scraps in it. These are all scrap tags. Sometimes I'll go through here and just look. Hmm. Anything on that inspire me. No. And I will just look and see what I can find. Sometimes I'll pull something out and I'll be like, Oh, now that's really cool. What could I do with that? All right. So these are just my way to get my art going, get my inspiration going and hit it up. All right. I hope this helps you guys. Please, if you have any questions, let me know. I'll be glad to answer them for you. Don't forget this is a video hop. So check in the description below. And you're going to have a bunch of other artists that are going to tell you where and how they get their inspiration from as well as possibly show you art that they get from their inspiration. Okay, or that they make from their inspiration. All right. So check them all out. As always leave comments. I answer all the comments below. And if you have any questions, let me know. Don't forget have fun. That's what I've saw about. We'll talk to you soon. Bye. Hey, everybody. I hope you enjoyed that video. As always, hit like, share, comment. I'll answer any of the comments that you have or questions. And as always, be kind. Have fun. That's what I've saw about. And happy creating. We'll talk to you soon. Bye.