Capricorn and their creativity

Hi there cappies,

I'm currently making my way to become a graphic designer/illustrator, and obviously I love making art. I had a burning question: How do you cappies do your art as a self expression?

from my experience and observation, capricorn visual art are tend to:
- More about the content (the detail, the message) instead of the execution (the energy in the brush stroke, the spontaneity)
- They are master of their tools and skill up quite fast, but lack in ideas.
- Their ideas are somehow genuine, but rarely a breakthrough
- Their mind tend to be deep, instead of broad
- Their quality tend to be grandiose instead of simple
- They tend to be neat and patient.they hate sloppy work.
- They are mostly stiff. Capricorn are notorious for being inflexible, so I guess they are not a good dancer.Lol
- They usually having a hard time initiating a concept, but rarely troubled with the execution

Maybe this is an over-generalization over capricorn, but this is what I can see so far. So dear cappies, please share your thought. How do you do your things? Maybe it doesn't have to be in art subject, but maybe some other things which require intuition, like cooking maybe? or woodworking? anything as long as your intuition involved.

In visual arts, I admire and envy some work from my fellow colleagues which is:
- Libras: for their natural sense of beauty
- Pisces: for their flamboyant style
- Aquarius: for their inventiveness, originality and breakthrough ideas

share me yours.

Geminis inspire me in this area.

Although I have a very active imagination, there is a huge disconnect when it comes to bringing my vision to life. Not quite sure why because its not as if I dont see it.

Interesting topic though. Google Project Runway Allstars when you get a chance and search for the seaon when Austin Scarlett(Cap) was on there. He didnt win, but if you compare his final collection to the other two guys you would probably see that Austin had the weakest overall collection of the three but the strongest individual pieces with the most detail. How does that happen? Capricorn for ya.

Thanks guys for participating, and thank you inana04 for the good example 😄

So seems like cap need more oomph in the initiation process. I see Air sign seems able to do this without effort.

yes static, I do feel I keep looking for structure in my work naturally. I'm dying to make an emotionally charged work like you did, but it just doesn't seem right. meddling for too long in uncertainty paralyze me, I had the urge to turn it into something comprehensible, an immediate form. maybe that is the trait of the earth sign. nevertheless, I'll keep trying to make one. Thanks, I get a better view on what I should emphasize.

I had an example, recently my friend (he's a libra) came up to me with a design for a foldable table lamp. His design were so libra-ish, simple, modern, light, and visually appealing. I admit, his design was brilliant, but then my natural response was "maybe you ought to consider the selection of material in use so it could stand well, and the electricity arrangement so someone wouldn't get electrocuted accidentally, the folding mechanism, etc, etc..." and he said "Oh yeah, you are right. I haven't think of it that way". In the end it makes me curious if this has to do with our sign trait. Libra initiates the idea, and me a capricorn provide it with structure, and it just happen naturally.

Many are welcome here, please share me your experience. If art subject bothers you, you can relate it to sports, and how you do it well. For example, if you play tennis, what did your instinct say to you to beat your opponent? will it be keep playing his/her game, analyzing, and then made a counter attack? I would like to know your instinctual response on uncertain matters.

I agree jahlia. They may vary so much, especially when their planets position were put into account. But I think that's the purpose of creating this thread. I want to know if other cap had the similar, or even the opposite approach. It's like an artist need a criticism for their art to evolve. I only knew a few cap fellow in a creative pursue. Sometime I may even think they are not suitable for this field. Lol. But that's not the case.

Another example, i had a lady cap friend (cap sun,sag rising), she is a violinist, she's also into theatre, and sometime do some drawing and painting. When she play violin, she bring a heavy feeling into the room, in theatre she love playing as the antagonist, and when she draw or paint, she will do it brutally and aggressively, scribbling a lot and slowly making a form resembling a skull, or demon. Yet all of these conveys me the need of power, the need to be in charge, which i might relate to capricorn.

I haven't done any intensive research yet but so far i dont see any cap with an abstract and light kind of style . Btw, what planet contribute to creativity? Is it Jupiter, uranus, neptune, or moon?

I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I can write though - when I want to (and I usually don't want to). lol!

Oh!!! And welcome to the Boards! We're glad to have ya! So pull up a chair and sit a spell. 🙂

I do scrapbooking and card making as art. I also like photography quite a lot. lol.
I am drawn to simplicity and strong lines, an uncluttered, graphic look.

You can see my stuff here:
http://snapscrapsmishaps.typepad.com/njohnstone/<BR>
I designed my buttons and header on the blog too.

Posted by static


I almost feel like this sign wants to leap and bound before it can walk, and grows frustrated with itself when that simply is not possible. Then in Saturnian fashion, limitations become painfully clear and frustration ensues. It's the Capricorns that toil away hour after hours upon years upon decades that truly blossom into the master they so wish to become, and that takes unflinching dedication. And even then, when the world sings them praises, they find there is still yet more to improve upon haha.

I smiled at your story about your friends lamp design. Ever practical, ever improving, ever mindful.

This is why I love Saggies. Really, this is it in a nutshell. Its why Ive been frustrated for yrs. The whole walking part, the steps you have to take to get where you want to go does not interest me. In a way, I almost prefer to learn things backwards( the hardest part first, then

My message cut off, ah well. Thanks for your post static.

Posted by static


It would be interesting if you could give your input on this funny quirk, though: Capricorns are perfectionists. If it isn't within their capacity to produce something to their vision of perfection, or close enough to it, they would prefer not to do so at all.

The singularity of purpose, something they pick somewhere in their life. I don't know how to describe this, but it's there, I feel it . I guess it's not rare for a cap who address themselves with their job. I will say, if i cannot lay a brick, then I'm not considered an architect (even though in many way it doesn't always have to go that way. I think this is the foolish side of me)

thank you so much static, for a wonderful example of your cap friend.

she had a preference towards lines, black and white, as opposed to colour. -very structural, most of the time i work in the same manner too

She started off with grey tones, then gradually watered down shades of colour -very methodical , a careful step by step procedure

I'm not sure vibrancy is something she will ever administer to her own work. - which I feel also lack in my work. I would also translate "vibrancy" into originality, into inventiveness, the spirit of creation.

For a long time she wouldn't show anyone her art, as in her eyes, it was not fit for viewing by anyone but herself. She had to get over that reluctance. What is the point of creativity if one chooses to withhold it?
maybe this is just her, being a typically cautious. You see, cap usually have two basic need, a social status and security. But sometime there is a time where both of them doesn't always go in the same direction at the same time. I think it is fair to say, fine art are more about recognition (social status), so I think its natural for her to be like that. She may aware she has not yet reach her full potential yet. She has not yet an artist she wanted to be recognized. If money was not a problem, I definitely would dive deep like she did. I see another clue of power need, an artist who want to take full charge and mastery of their work.

thank you static for your post, it really loosen the knot in my head and I think I've found what I'm looking for. I think cap tendencies to overcome on something which they thrive mastery upon for too long made them dull. How would you have some breakthrough ideas when most of the time your mind are focused to certain matter. Inana04 post about project runaway was also a very good example. No wonder why I think air sign are better at this. I shall deploy a broader and lighter view on my work now on.

Posted by truecap
Oh!!! And welcome to the Boards! We're glad to have ya! So pull up a chair and sit a spell. 🙂

Aye, captain! Thank you 🙂

Posted by capgirl69
I do scrapbooking and card making as art. I also like photography quite a lot. lol.
I am drawn to simplicity and strong lines, an uncluttered, graphic look.

You can see my stuff here:
http://snapscrapsmishaps.typepad.com/njohnstone/<BR>
I designed my buttons and header on the blog too.

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Cute! And I think it's a very capricorn-ish thing to do, organized and neat. Thank you for sharing your work.

I'm also curious to see the work of your cap friend, static. Please show us if you had the time 🙂. Thanks

My girl from top model Allison Harvard is a Cap who was an amazing model, in my eyes, on the show and she paints too. Here are a few of her prints.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/eluelizabeth<BR>
She is from New orleans, which her work reminds me of the city for some strange reason.

Also, speaking of art and dance, im a lot stiffer than I use to be, but I grew up wanting to be a dancer. If I could just express myself thru dance how I want id be set for life. Crazy since I never pursued it.

I always think of routines to this overplayed song.
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