The funky foursome are finished and the design for the hotel
sign is done, but there has been some procrastination (isn’t that something
Pooh had trouble with? – well it appears to be a common artist’s trait as well).
I’ve bought new materials, reorganised my pastel box, painted my toenails and
done a lot of dreaming! But in all honesty, I have been very busy “thinking”
whilst procrastinating over the next painting. It’s my desire to master a personal
style, knowing that if I just paint without thinking about it I’ll play safe
and get myself bogged down in detail. I’ve done a fair amount of analysis – collating paintings I admire, studying the colours and styles and
appraising my own work. During this journey, I have come
across hundreds of paintings and artists – but there are only 3 that I have obsessed
about. By that I mean researched, bought the book and lost hours on the laptop:
Mervyn Peake, Kyffin Williams and Eyvind Earle. Apart from the fact that they
all have first names that are difficult to spell, they all used strong notan and produce drawings and paintings where colour is secondary to line and form.
My series of chickens has probably stopped at 2, and whilst my hunt for the
perfect Horny Hamish continues I shall try to convert my thoughts into some landscape paintings.
I couldn’t find the Pooh quote on procrastination, so I
thought I’d leave you with this one….
" When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." A. A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh.
3 comments:
Yes, can relate to Winnie .. thanks for the memory ;)
I have read that style is the sum total of countless habits and decisions made during the creative process. Consequently an artist can't not have a style! To change that style one must change their habits and decisions. Perhaps studying the processes employed by artists who you admire would be as helpful as studying their final product. I am not an expert and this is only my opinion, and I toss it out merely as food for thought!
You are probably right Ed. I often search the internet to find out about the processes used by other artists, but it's not always easy to find.
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