Nae Idea

The internet is very much a place where people are expected to know everything, and definitely the “rules” of blogging always include some gubbins about speaking with authority, and I get it, to a certain extent.

I have no idea what I’m doing a lot of the time, and I love it.

Sometimes, and this has happened once or twice on this blog, people who have no interest in my process just want to drop in out of blue and tell me I’m dumb. On one occasion I did actually know what I was doing, it was the drop-in who didn’t, which was a little bit satisfying.

With this trio project, I had no plan when I started, and it evolved from a single painting into a trio, and that means painting all three at once, except the first painting is further along than the other two. I have no idea how this trio will turn out, but they’ve already taught me thing s I can take forward when thinking about doing another series.

The other big lesson is that my note-making is terrible, and this is something I’m planning to improve. I definitely need to have a better system for keeping notes.

It turns out that I had sort of made a note of the palette for the first painting, I just hadn’t related the palette notes to the painting. I found the colour notes today in a sketchbook, and it turns out that the palette I tried out yesterday was correct, it was just my mixing that needed some adjustments.

Now I’m working on the three paintings and trying to get into a groove of rotating them, and I have no idea whether the way I tried it today is the best way, or if there’s a better way to do it, but not knowing and just doing engrossed me.

The third figure is going through a really ugly stage while I adjust some of the shapes, but I have figured out what was really annoying me about it.

Another thing that came up today was thinking about a commitment to do no other things until I have done some art, even if it’s really bad art. I immediately changed it to allow coffee to be made first, but I’m writing here that I’m working on making the art the priority of the mornings.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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