A.M. - Piece No. 1
P.M. - Piece No. 2
Lunch
P.M. - Piece No. 1 (I know it looks almost the same but trust me, a lot happened)
P.M. - Piece No. 2
A few things I learned during my five days of concentrated working:
1. Art takes a lot of time and a fierce concentration.
2. Working every day gave me a better idea of just how many tiny decisions you have to make to create one thing.
3. Being immersed in your work for hours each day does not make you a very good conversationalist during the off times.
4. I need to make sure I am protecting more of my weekly hours to art making if I'm going to make any progress.
5. I have to be ruthless about cutting out, covering over, and scraping down the things that are not really working with the whole piece. No matter how lovely the are by themselves.
I am sure I will have more thoughts later. Now I'm off to make dinner.
4 comments:
whew - so true! People don't realize how much work it is to try to make art as your job. It's one of those jobs that usually gets romanticized (as if to say, we just sit around, peer into our navels all day, drinking coffee and have flashes of inspiration) or cast off as easy work (and to that, I would add: try your hand at it for a full week and then tell me it's easy!!)
Your observations are spot-on. Consistency in discipline is beautifully difficult but rewarding. Thank you!
it is amazing how much work it takes to create something, what shannon said was true too. I wish the people who wanted to offer low-ball prices for our art could just see, for a moment, how much work it takes to make something fantastic!
I love your art machines studio website and blog so much, I put a link to it on my blog! <3, jean
http://roots-and-wings.tumblr.com/
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