The majority of my studio time is at night for about three hours from 8:30 - 11:30 pm - been keeping this schedule for years. When I don't feel like working, I start to clean and straighten - which I don't like to do at all, and after a few minutes of cleaning, my mind decides it wants to work and I'm at it!
Precisely! Just leave paper and drawing implement around in mist used rooms. Blind self portraits late on in the day when you’ve forgotten/been too busy to create are a fun and easy thing to do in a couple of minutes !
Love this! Perfect advice for any artist. Back in art school I had a professor say, "if you're stuck, just make a mark. Don't let the blank page intimidate you. Just make a mark - any mark." Still true today. Thank you Cecil, for reminding me.
Hi Jim! Thanks for making a comment. Juan Miro used to put his new canvases on the floor and walk on them so that they were 'started'. Even a smudge on a new canvas or piece of paper can get the party in your head started. Every day, every moment is new and unique and never to be recovered, don't let them slip by without leaving your mark.
The majority of my studio time is at night for about three hours from 8:30 - 11:30 pm - been keeping this schedule for years. When I don't feel like working, I start to clean and straighten - which I don't like to do at all, and after a few minutes of cleaning, my mind decides it wants to work and I'm at it!
Hi Bob!
That is a good strategy. Punish yourself with clean up and that will incline you to start making art.
Precisely! Just leave paper and drawing implement around in mist used rooms. Blind self portraits late on in the day when you’ve forgotten/been too busy to create are a fun and easy thing to do in a couple of minutes !
Hi Hazel! Thanks so much for commenting. Yes right? We have to keep our fingers in the cookie jar!
Love this! Perfect advice for any artist. Back in art school I had a professor say, "if you're stuck, just make a mark. Don't let the blank page intimidate you. Just make a mark - any mark." Still true today. Thank you Cecil, for reminding me.
Hi Jim! Thanks for making a comment. Juan Miro used to put his new canvases on the floor and walk on them so that they were 'started'. Even a smudge on a new canvas or piece of paper can get the party in your head started. Every day, every moment is new and unique and never to be recovered, don't let them slip by without leaving your mark.