Making art when Life Gets Complicated
What do you do when life gets complicated and you don’t feel like you be making art anytime soon? Here’s practical ways that can help you.
06/08/2023
52 Works in 52 Weeks
Create 52 works in 52 weeks! This pursuit arose after emerging victoriously from a particularly character-building period of life.
In returning to my studio practice, I considered narrative realism demanded too much preparation and planning. Worn out from an extended rebuild of my home whilst living in it, I opted to pursue abstraction. Knowing that abstraction was not easy, I gave myself an extended time of studio play with no expectations other than to see where it all might lead if I pushed myself to create one abstract each week. Importantly, I am motivated by having a specific goal.
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The first works resulting from this pursuit debuted July 2024.
Monoprinting with Inktense
Monoprinting with Inktense on the most rigourously pretreated paper has produced my favourite abstract works so far. Solving problems increased creativity.
14/08/2023
Monoprinting Trials and First World Problems
Because I want to be transparent with my readers, I share the monoprinting trials I had creating “Red Playground Derivative Squared 1 and 2.
19/08/2023
Overcoming failure, mistakes & setbacks
Overcoming failure, mistakes, and setbacks: Analyse them to transform them into powerful boosts for your creative efforts
26/08/2023
Winning in the Art Studio!
Winning in the art studio can be a big challenge when there’s a lot of living going on! So, how do you get into studio to create meaningfully?
10/09/2023
The value of making crap art
Making crap art is what I gave myself permission to do when I returned to my studio after a really tough year in 2022. Find out why.
22/09/2023