Don't be a tortured artist / Starting a new oil painting
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
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Join me in Berlin as I begin my new oil painting (it is once again 160x105cm). Watch me ramble on about my painting process, materials I use, the unsustainable idea of a tortured suffering artist and then come to a barely satisfying conclusion.
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Thank you for bringing up the topic of mental health issues and creativity. I am a writer who has been struggling to write a single word or the mountain of stuff I''d have to do to promote myself. I am coming out the other side now and the ideas are starting to pop and and I feel motivated. WHen I am suffering nothing happens - again, thank you for bringing it up!
@@KimberleyMcGill 🖤🖤🖤 it is important to remember that... It took me way too long to realize I can't beat myself up into doing something I have no energy for. Guilt and self hate bring you nowhere. I hope your writing goes well!🤍
Making the videos and making the art are very closely intertwined. They are creative processes that are vehicles for expression. I feel like the videos help to complete the process of the art in some way. We get an idea/inspiration etc, we flesh it out in our minds'
eye, we sketch it out, try different compositions, extentions of the idea etc, choose surface, medium etc and then continue to work it out on the piece(lots of problem solving here and this is cathartic in its own right- like a whole does of therapy!!😂) Then the final part of the process is bringing it to the viewer, to be experienced. This completes the process. It can be viewed at an exhibition, social media like instagram, tiktok etc, in galleries and it can be viewed in the format of the CZcams video where so much more can be shared, than just the final piece. It is the backstory, the process, the workings of the artist's mind that give so much more insight into the expression of the artist's work. This feels like a complete and thorough process. Your paintings are interesting and get my brain asking many questions. I love art that does that. It's so much more than a rendering of something. It is an expression of your soul. Keep going, keep creating, keep sharing and always be you!!🥰
I agree about the videos. I also put a lot of thought into making these videos some sort of art piece by themselves. I don't think I'm quite there yet, it will definitely take more figuring out.
And while I love the documentation part of it and generally, yes, giving more context to what I do and how.. There is still the observer effect. Regardless of how authentic these videos are, they are still a staged play. I don't think I'm affected much, but I still wonder about it. Would the paintings come out differently if no one watched me make them?
Oh well, everything has up and down sides, I suppose. But it's definitely an interesting experience I want to continue.
Also, thank you 👹
My approach to the torture of anxiety is that no, I'm not doing any of the sales or establishing connections while I'm working on art pieces. After I have 15 or more completed pieces, then I will stop and deal with all those other things. I don't want those things involved with my art. Don't want it in my head. Except I don't need money anytime soon. Eventually I need money to keep going.
I like having two paintings going at the same time. Or at least that option setting over there in the corner waiting. I may work on it or maybe wait till I'm finished with my main piece. Typically I like my 2nd piece to be completely different. Like I was doing a wild figurative abstract of the peregrine falcon with buildings, cell phone and solar eclipse... 36"x40" and an impressionist landscape of an iced over lake 48"x 26. Going back and forth keeps me in balance. I like different canvas size and format, different style and subject.
I think that real skinny canvas would be excellent as a 2nd piece to start while finishing the one you're on. The extra challenge keeps your mind more open to changing the other painting. I would stay in the same medium though. It would get too confusing and time wasting trying to switch back and forth in different mediums. I really like the one your'e working on. It could easily stand as a finished piece as is.
I think that's a pretty good approach to the business side of art. If you have the option of taking time off and purely focusing on art, then yes, go for it. I think it's about figuring out what your priorities are and what you are capable of in the moment. And making sure you are not sacrificing your art in any way.
I've never done two paintings at the same time... They used to take me less time, maybe that is why. Or I was worried that I'll stop working on one of them completely.
What painting would you say you've done while coming closest to the "tortured artist" archetype and what painting did you do while being furthest away from it?
Loved the video but can't find the Patreon link.
Thank you👹 it was in the description but here it is again
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