Artist Grantee Posts
The latest blog posts from the Creative Pinellas Grantees
Reflection
Reflection By Mason Gehring January 25th Today is my last day on anti-seizure medication for epilepsy and tomorrow is my 38th birthday. It’s weird having to revisit an illness that hadn’t affected my life for 32 years. To look back to a year ago, it felt so heavy, this new [...]
DREAMING IS FREE Blog #8
DREAMING IS FREE or Monster Mash A Meandering Blog Post Blog #8 Jan. 23, 2021 By Emily Stehle You could live your entire life in song. Like in La La Land. All day long, snippets of lyrics and melodies pop into my head. And sometimes, I have to get to [...]
Finding Motivation Through Expression by Nick Davis
Finding Motivation Through Expression by Nick Davis 1/22/21 During my journey as a full time artist I discovered rather quickly that I am not always going to be inspired to create something all the time. There aren’t always memories that initiate drawings and sometimes even music isn’t enough to get [...]

All In Engine Virtual Production Cinematography, Environmental Art and Rigging in Maya
Unreal Engine Cinematography, Environmental Art and Rigging Gabriella Krousaniotakis / January 21st, 2020 Blog#9 This week has been amazing! I did a cinematography tutorial by Bernhard Rieder (a.k.a. The Fatty Bull), created some Unreal environmental art thanks to a speed level by Unreal Environments Speed Level Design and started learning [...]
Darkness Then Hope
Darkness Then Hope By: Sara Ries Dziekonski Blog# 8 1/21/21 On Inauguration Day Eve, I took Teddy Blue Eyes to crawl around one of his favorite parks. Teddy loves to crawl on the sidewalk path in the park. When he first began to crawl, he discovered the feeling of [...]
Aquarius; The Philosopher
Aquarius; The Philosopher By: Chelsea Catherine Blog 9: 1/21/2021 Tuesday the 19th marked the start of Aquarius season. A late January baby, I’ve lived my whole life reading Aquarius horoscopes, matching my personality traits to the standard Aquarius traits. This year, as part of my plan to combat pandemic [...]
Resonating
Resonating By Mason Gehring January 22nd Generally, my creative process is a solo mission and I like it that way. I never played team sports as a kid and I’m very much your typical introvert (INFJ) where I find it a relief to be away from people when I’ve had [...]