Sometimes when I start, I know exactly what I am creating, and sometimes I just start. I have to start, or nothing happens. But most of the time, if I start the image emerges. I don't know where it comes from, but it happens. A pattern, a feeling, a response to my emotions, to the rhythm of the background music, the happenstance of the next tube of paint I pick up, the next tool that I pick up.
If you ask me what I am painting, I often don't have an answer. If I waited until I had a vision of the finished work to start, I might never start. How do I start, I unwrap a canvas, put it on the easel, and paint on a primer or base layer, and then flow from there. Some paintings take days or weeks to develop, others happen from start to finish in minutes.
The critical thing for me is starting. For me creativity happens when I am working, not when I am trying to decide what to work on. Don't wait for creative inspiration, start and it will find you.
You can't tell what it's going to be until you start it ... and then the image appears.
ReplyDeleteThat is often how it works.
Delete"Just start" works for other things, too, - like cleaning house, taking a walk, weeding the garden...
ReplyDeleteYou will never finish until you start.
Delete"Just Start" is like a realistic version of "Just do it." And I'm here for it.
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https://idleeyesandadormy.com/
Start drawing this week?
DeleteYour creative work is shaping up very nicely!
ReplyDeleteI just finished a piece for our next show, 250 Years of Red White and Blue.
DeleteThis is pretty much my approach to blog writing, too. Just show up! Something will happen!
ReplyDeleteThe photo I select often drive the direction of the text.
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