The artistic process is a unique combination of vision, creativity, intuition, and collaboration balanced with craft, technique, accountability, discipline, and use of time and resources.
ARTS Action Research
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At this point–Untitled – July 21, 2020-5”x5″
The keyword in this quote is collaboration, but not with an individual or group of individuals, but with craft, technique, discipline, time, and resources. One word I would add is research.
Inspiration is the intuition, something that comes from the subconscious mind. Structure is the conscious part, the part that is of this world. Both are necessary, in equal measure.
Diane Bell, Epoch News
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Process-0001
Thought individuals would like to see how I am filling my time. Yes, colored pencils, but I found the wax build-up was a problem. I found my way around that, but I feel the line and textures underpin all that I do.
My students often heard me speak about how vital thumbnails are in creating and planning. Well, I do take my advice.
I still like the idea of working small. Most of everything I am doing are no bigger than 5″x 5”
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt, Brainy Quotes
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Mechanical – Pen and Ink
Continuing to work… Sol LeWitt, the conceptual artist, seems to consider that planning is an essential part of a work of art. Producing it appears to be the only element to transfer the ideas encapsulated in the work.
For me, at this stage, planning is becoming essential. But not quite sure where this work is leading me or why. I have a hunch, but it is not clear to me now.
The color pencils are presenting a challenge and using other software as opposed to Adobe’s offerings. It does feel good supporting those that are daring enough to take on the Goliath of software. For those interested Affinity Photo, Affinity Design and Blender are the software I am using.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time
Nikki Rowe
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Untitled-4.5″x 4.5″, Color Pencil and Digital
Looking back over my earlier posts have lost their images. I had a choice to correct the glitches, that I am disappointed losing or continue forward. I chose to continue forward.
I haven’t forgotten them they live on in my soul and behind these digital pages in a database on some server someplace. They are images that informed my current work.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
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Left behind in a Memory
Memories are often a jump off point for creating a poem, lyric, or other piece of art. They can be enhanced, altered, enlarged, and explored. In fact, they are often only a representation of what we wish could be true. You might wonder why, I spend so much time rearranging and recreating a simple photograph. Just as we each have our own perception of the world, shaped by the past, present, and physiology. This is how I like to remind myself that this is my unique view of the world. Not reality, but my reality.
~ Bill Hendricks (Shadowmason)