Rules:
1.  You must post these rules.
2.  Each person must answer these 10 questions in their journal.
3.  Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create ten new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4.  You have to choose 10 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
5.  Go to their pages and tell them you have tagged her/him.
6.  No tag backs.
7.  No putting things like "you are tagged if you're reading this." You legitimately have to tag 10 people.

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Questions for me:
1. Do you consider yourself an artist or your works works of art? If not, what would you call yourself or your creative work?
2. Do you have an artist/ artists that inspires you style-wise?
3. Do you have an artist/ artists that inspires you because of their subject matter?
4. What's the most useful piece of advice you have been given about creative work?
5. Recommend an audio book, radio talk show or something for me to listen to while I ink.
6. Can you draw/paint/whatever if somebody is looking? If you can do it now, but couldn't always, what brought on the change?
7. What's your embarassing visual art favourite? (If you don't have one but have a favourite song you are embarassed about, why do you think this is?)
8. What was your favourite thing to draw/paint when you were a kid?
9. How do you feel about pears? Aren't they all weird and grainy and stuff?
10. Link or add a picture you like and I'll draw/paint a 10 minute reproduction of it after I stop being so damn busy.

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I'm lazy, so not forwarding this, but, here goes:

1:
I'm definitely an artist, whatever that really means. But I believe my works have a soul, that they are a detached part of me doing their guerrilla work in the wide world.

2:
William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, C.R. Ashbee, Gustav Stickley, Ivan Bilibin, Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Alan Lee, Arthur Rackham... And so on.

3:
That's harder... I guess Tolkien's illustrations carry a lot of weight because of the complexity of the mythos behind them.

4:
Finish what you start. Start a lot of things. Not sure if somebody gave that to me, or if I just found out myself... Well actually a good one I remember being told was: "Do not try to put all the ideas in one piece of work".

5:
Oops, don't listen to a lot of radio.

6.
I think I can, I've been going to both ceramics and oil painting in the folk academy (työväenopisto) and used to working in schools, so no prob. But if people are really staring at me, my skills do seem to deteriorate a bit

7:
Hmm. I don't know if I should be embarassed about things? Well, I like Blümchen's music from the 90s a lot It still does not have the ironic 80s charm, so 90s bubblegum techno must be the least street credible music out there

8:
When I was 4: dinosaurs and beasts with huge teeth. I mean HUGE ENORMOUS GIANT TEETH AND MAWS! Hard to say why, I wasn't traumatized or anything, I just adored dinosaurs I think. People still remember this, and are puzzled why I didn't draw anything else. Well there was that glowing UFO over the dinosaurs in on huge sheet I had filled with these creatures. A little older, I drew animals and stuff. And once I made a drug dealers' den from a cardboard box, with piles of bags tagged "LSD", "heroin" etc lined up the walls. My big sister found out, and gave me hell for that Well, I was 7 or so. I never realized what it was, until I recently read some Freak Brothers, and BING! went my recollection. Yes I guess they were a bit much for a 6 year old to read In elementary school, I drew mutants and demons, and was famous for that. And I liked to erase heads, hands and feet from people (you could do that with a good eraser!) from the school books, and draw bones and blood sticking out. Well, I remember hearing from that too from the teachers... And then I wasn't a kid anymore. This was fun to remember about...

9:
Actually, I like them, but never usually buy them, so I guess there's something shady about them. And didn't think of that grainy part before, until I made some smoothie from yoghurt and bananane a few days back, and yes it did come out with a nasty grainy structure

10:
"The men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys, and a few rock pythons made up a group of minstrels who wandered the towns of Nigeria, entertaining people and selling traditional medicines. Over the 8 days that he spent with the performers, Hugo took photos whenever an opportunity presented itself. He returned two years later to engage with the group again."
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