If Sunday People are the kind of people that love Sundays and get up bright and early to fill the day with constructive and creative activities, I'm not one of them. Unfortunately. Sunday is the day where I have most free time and during the week I have this over-enthusiastic idea that whatever needs to be done, I can do it on Sunday cause "I'll have time".
This happens every week cause, needless to say, nothing actually gets done on Sundays.
At the moment I'm very frustrated about my school project, which I received some not-all-too-positive feedback on - constructive criticism of course but I'm just not sure what to make of it. I have no idea how to turn my project around, and though it's (according to all the teachers) necessary to be frustrated and not know what to do, it doesn't feel good to be standing right in the middle of it!
To add at least SOME positive news to the post; I recently finished another religious painting and my mother is unofficially hired to try and find potential buyers for it, as she is in the Church choir. Wish me luck!!
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Here we go again...
Since I discovered the world of blogging I've created and posted in several blogs.. This one will be mainly about art and other creative stuff, much like the web site.
I'm embarassed to say that the first post in this new blog will be a vent post.. but I guess it's bound to happen a lot cause there are soo many frustrations and unforeseen obstacles in the process of painting. Our current school project is about simplifying a chosen motive to create a more abstract painting - sounds simple but I can assure you it's not! There is a lot of fun involved cause I like to express myself through the brush strokes and go a little crazy, but working that way means I spend a lot of time thinking and let the idea evolve until I eventually let it explode unto the canvas - then I paint for about 15 minutes without thinking at all and after that my head is kind of empty. The drawback about this method is that at school I'm supposed to work slowly and steadily at the same painting from 9 am to 3 pm every day, in this case for 8 days. That makes me unbelieveably restless and fidgety which is embarassing cause I don't want people to think that I'm lazy or that I don't WANT to work.
In think I'm frustrated about it cause when we're doing a nude study or a still life it's easy to work for longer periods at a time cause you know beforehand what you're going to do -transfer something standing in front of you, to the canvas and make it look as real as possible. With abstract and/or expressive painting you have NO clue what to do and you have to make it up as you go. That's where the problem lies with me I think. One of my favourite teachers once said to me that if you know beforehand exactly what you're gonna paint, then there's no point in it -the journey is the destination. I guess I have to trust that.
I'm embarassed to say that the first post in this new blog will be a vent post.. but I guess it's bound to happen a lot cause there are soo many frustrations and unforeseen obstacles in the process of painting. Our current school project is about simplifying a chosen motive to create a more abstract painting - sounds simple but I can assure you it's not! There is a lot of fun involved cause I like to express myself through the brush strokes and go a little crazy, but working that way means I spend a lot of time thinking and let the idea evolve until I eventually let it explode unto the canvas - then I paint for about 15 minutes without thinking at all and after that my head is kind of empty. The drawback about this method is that at school I'm supposed to work slowly and steadily at the same painting from 9 am to 3 pm every day, in this case for 8 days. That makes me unbelieveably restless and fidgety which is embarassing cause I don't want people to think that I'm lazy or that I don't WANT to work.
In think I'm frustrated about it cause when we're doing a nude study or a still life it's easy to work for longer periods at a time cause you know beforehand what you're going to do -transfer something standing in front of you, to the canvas and make it look as real as possible. With abstract and/or expressive painting you have NO clue what to do and you have to make it up as you go. That's where the problem lies with me I think. One of my favourite teachers once said to me that if you know beforehand exactly what you're gonna paint, then there's no point in it -the journey is the destination. I guess I have to trust that.
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