Using Loss of Control to Your Advantage
It can be frustrating, but losing control of the creative process can be an enlightening experience.
Why Do We Need a Why?
Can artists just make art for the enjoyment they get from it as an activity? And, can viewers look at art purely for enjoyment without needing reasons for its existence?
Two Ways You Can Influence Yourself
I was forced to think more within myself. Solutions and ideas weren’t available at the click of a button, nor were they offering themselves uninvited on my screen.
Details Without Fuss (or the Devil!)
The details or areas of greater interest that I speak of here are happenstance, random and unplanned. Yet, they forthrightly demand my attention, my glance and my imagination.
Working With Wedges
I said to some fellow artists this week that I need a helper, not to do bits of painting or other things, but to stand beside me and snatch my tools away at the most opportune moment in a painting’s development.
Art is a Fickle Business
As I pondered, my mind went off on a tangent, automatically brainstorming, the implications and possibilities, as well as how to resolve this painting?
Out There
“Out There” is a broad theme which leaves the options wide open. What will develop as I find my way around the ideas?
Keeping the Momentum
My aim is to bear in mind the visual forms and textures, the feel of the place and my emotional reactions.
Resolutions in December!
Are they done or not? I have to remind myself that not everything can be “exciting”, but they still might be good enough to send out into the world.
On My Marks Series
Now I look closer, I can see a sneaky “s” hiding in there. It’s basically a curvy design with a hint of diagonals.
Sticky Situations
Have you ever been plagued by being stuck, unable to move forward? Desperately wanting to run towards your dream but, somehow, unable to move.
What’s Your Motivation?
I could ask you “What’s your poison?” because painting and art in general gets into your system and insidiously affects all you think and do.
Wendy Galloway Art 