Just wondering.....
What is the process you go through to create your art?
Do you plan it?
Do you have a concept in mind and then begin?
Do you meticulously sketch outlines / studies?
I have been told by some, that good planning is necessary, but I just seem to enjoy looking at a blank canvas and watching it develop.
I have bought a number of sketchbooks, and usually before a new project, I sketch a brief outline, but for some reason, it changes / morphs into something completely different once I begin on the canvas.
Would be interested in knowing what the process is like for you as an artist.
:)
What is the process you go through to create your art?
Do you plan it?
Do you have a concept in mind and then begin?
Do you meticulously sketch outlines / studies?
I have been told by some, that good planning is necessary, but I just seem to enjoy looking at a blank canvas and watching it develop.
I have bought a number of sketchbooks, and usually before a new project, I sketch a brief outline, but for some reason, it changes / morphs into something completely different once I begin on the canvas.
Would be interested in knowing what the process is like for you as an artist.
:)
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Re: Process of art
Sat, January 26, 2008 - 5:50 PMThe mystical process of being.
It tells me what it wants to be and I follow directions...
even if it seems absurd.
especially if it seems absurd.
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Re: Process of art
Sat, January 26, 2008 - 9:18 PMFor years I was an abstract painter. I would get a blank canvas and just start going with little or no idea what I was going to do. Now I don't paint anymore. I build constructions that are aided by computer and are completely planned out ahead of time. I think both ways of working are valid and neither is better than the other. It's just a matter of what you're comfortable with at the time.
TTINLA
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Re: Process of art
Sun, January 27, 2008 - 7:24 AMI come up with ideas and think about pieces of art for a while before i do them, usually, sometimes I'll have different pieces and ideas in my mind for years before I actually take the time to do it, or I start it one year, put it away and finish it years later, often my style is much better so it comes out better.
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Re: Process of art
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 5:14 PMDo you plan it? Do you have a concept in mind and then begin?
Usually I do, except when I 'Know' I'm doing an abstract, I'll let it evolve along it's birthing.
I might dig in my box of cut-outs, or have a fixed 'revealed' image in mind.
Do you meticulously sketch outlines / studies? Rarely. Mostly useful (in my case for portraits/nudes)
Love,
ML"
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Re: Process of art
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 5:24 PMStarts as an ache...turns into brush strokes...then it becomes a tumultuous love/hate relationship until it is finished...though it's never really finished, I just finally decide to tear myself away from that funnel of inspiration and move onto the next! For myself I work both ways from internal urgency to get some unknown inspiration out and also from the place of clear intention with a visual concept I let percolate before bringing brush or hand to canvas.
It seems we are always in the process of art, the path and destination in of the same....great question...
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Re: Process of art
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 6:36 PMyeah, I can relate to a lot of what you all are saying, its so easy to start pieces of art...but to finish...sometimes years later, or never, or when is it really finished, actually the process of working through a piece, s all about problem salving and since I like challenges, I can really get into the "process" and something amazing unfolds out of the mess, that sends chills up my spine, something that I had no idea about before... the possibilities are endless. -
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Tue, February 12, 2008 - 9:23 PMI go both ways with process though lately I have a theme that acts as a focal guideline, but I allow myself full freedom to get sidetracked if the Muse whispers in my left ear. Last week I was exploring cubic symmetry in Sacred geometry and this week I've switched to Tetrahedral symmetries . A spin off of this effort was a little abstract sculptural piece I finished today called "Swoop"that is posted in my blog space. -
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Re: Process of art
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 3:32 AMI look, I listen, I read, I think, I keep a sketchbook, I look at what I have made already.
When something shows up in multiple areas, I being to consider how it could develop into a piece of work.
I sit with the work and look for relationships that imply a body of work.
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Re: Process of art
Sat, February 16, 2008 - 5:00 PMI sit with the work and look for relationships that imply a body of work.
I put the pieces that don't fit aside. ...
This is to be kept in mind indeed.
(For It end to always to do different subjects (except of course nudes (almost always the same thing except for allure, posture & deco))).
ML.
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Re: Process of art
Sat, February 16, 2008 - 4:58 PMThx. for your words. My 'way' is similar.
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Re: Process of art
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 9:06 AMthe most fun ive had painting was when i would wing it...and just improv
but now, i do also get alot of satisfaction from planning complex ones
..its almost more of an 'accomplishment' thing for me because it teaches me more patience
(which i tend to lack with art)
tried underpaintings for the first time this year, and it has been alot of fun to watch them develop
..although it has been hard to go back and force myself to finish some of them :S
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Re: Process of art
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 12:03 PMsometimes see a whole piece in a dream and try desperately to get it down before it fades...
Often starts with words, poem,song, prose... but then I am an Illustrator and I suppose we are more tuned in to that?
have lots of half finished ideas hanging around in books waiting, my husband is a songwriter, his process seems similar...
and just ocasionally i sit down and start and finish something in the same day, and it just happens.... so that you look at it next day and think...did I do that?!
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Re: Process of art
Tue, April 1, 2008 - 2:30 AMJust do what comes naturally. I prefer to let the art take on a life of it's own as opposed to looking @ something and drawing it. But I'm guilty of the latter as well.
