finding your own process - it's hard!
How can one claim a particular way of working to be theirs? Can we share a process? I bet someone else has the same process that I do. So I guess that means just forget about being the super-orignal artist you thought you were!
"my" process is pretty messy right now. Just a cluttered pile of this and that, a collage, if you will. A bunch of drawings, paint, some trash and dust. Dandruff and bodily fluids. I could defend myself and call it an intelectual collage of smartness, but I don't think that's the case.
In art school there is a lot of pressure to find your own voice and process because that's what real artists do. Or at least the successful ones. I'm a litle scattered right now and that's kind of my process. Working into the remains of what was there before. Painting over, into and starting over completely. Realizing what I am not, the hard way, but still not finding what I am. Wow, that sucks. haha
Here is a link to an interesting article about the artist Nathan Oliveira. His paintings are great, and I wish that mine were more like his. In the article it talks about his development as an artist throughout his life, defying trends in the artworld, and his lifelong process as an artist. Reading this about him and his paintings makes me feel a lot better. :)
http://www.ebsqart.com/ArtMagazine/za_195.htm
How can one claim a particular way of working to be theirs? Can we share a process? I bet someone else has the same process that I do. So I guess that means just forget about being the super-orignal artist you thought you were!
"my" process is pretty messy right now. Just a cluttered pile of this and that, a collage, if you will. A bunch of drawings, paint, some trash and dust. Dandruff and bodily fluids. I could defend myself and call it an intelectual collage of smartness, but I don't think that's the case.
In art school there is a lot of pressure to find your own voice and process because that's what real artists do. Or at least the successful ones. I'm a litle scattered right now and that's kind of my process. Working into the remains of what was there before. Painting over, into and starting over completely. Realizing what I am not, the hard way, but still not finding what I am. Wow, that sucks. haha
Here is a link to an interesting article about the artist Nathan Oliveira. His paintings are great, and I wish that mine were more like his. In the article it talks about his development as an artist throughout his life, defying trends in the artworld, and his lifelong process as an artist. Reading this about him and his paintings makes me feel a lot better. :)
http://www.ebsqart.com/ArtMagazine/za_195.htm
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