Every artist gets inspired.
Even if they make art "ön the fly", they are inspired by a creative thought, a sound or an image.
I am no different.
When I first got into brazing, I put together a frame, with a polished stainless backing, and a texture brass sheet.
There really was no plan here just I wanted something nice on my wall.
It turned out I enjoyed brazing metals together, and the creative process in general.
So I did a little research online and offline to find artist who either where doing what I want to do, or doing something that interest me.
The very first artist I found was on YouTube and his name was George Goehl of Nashville Indiana.
He has a number of videos on YouTube along with his own website.
The video about cut nails just fascinated me to no end.
I only realized later that cut nail art was very popular about 40 years ago and is now resurfacing in popularity.
Good for me as I just love the geometric shapes and the color of the nails themselves.
As a younger generation artist I wish to put my own twist and personal touch in this area of metal sculpture.
Great my own legacy sort of speak.
Another artist that has caught my eye is Michael deMeng.
I have borrowed his book "Secrets of Rusty things" from the library.
I am impressed more about his techniques than his actual works of art.
The shrines are not my style and this guy is kind of dark but found object art has a special place in my heart.
Reading his book, it really gives me a stronger sense of how to visualize objects being incorporated into not so obvious ways into an art piece.
I will never look at a garage, yard, or estate sale the same ever again.
I have ALOT more inspirations than this and I will expand further later.