It's probably the slowest drawing I have ever done. Is it my 'style'? No. I like to draw a figure or figures, arrange the canvas and paint and water, and throw everything together and let it create itself. Fast. This drawing is the opposite process. Perhaps that's why it seems a meditative exercise in itself. The colours have to suggest themselves out of their own resonance. Waiting for them to emerge takes time, and can't be rushed. Surely like some aspects of our lives.Sometimes we have to weigh options, and choose carefully. Allowing our choices to come out of a natural inclination. It's an intuitive process, yes, but one that's not foolhardy. All colours, or all options, are carefully considered, and then the one that both 'thinks' and 'feels' right is applied. At first carefully, just in case, and then deepened.
At this point in the process of this drawing I'm considering how we make decisions. Isn't it a lot like the way we create art?
I can't wait to see where that sky goes.
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ReplyDeleteI can identify with this especially in the writing process. What point of view to use, how much information to disclose, when to use a flashback versus "real time," how to structure a scene, what emotional tone to use. Though the computer is more forgiving than canvas when it comes to do-overs. Still, the process can be excruciatingly -- and enlighteningly -- slow.
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