Episode 15: What Kind of Artist are You? pt. 2
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This is the second self-survey about yourself and your work as an artist. It is meant to be in conjunction with the first one, as we get to know ourselves and our practice more deeply, to better understand what we are here to create.
You can complete it in any way that is useful to you, and I hope that you will share in the comments any insights or surprises you encountered. I plan to take the quiz myself, and will share what I discovered, too! Thanks so much for watching and contributing to this important discourse! I'm really excited to have conversations with you about our art practices.
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Here are the questions in written form in case that is useful (please forgive typos!)
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Very helpful. Stimulated deeper thinking about me and my art and where I/it fit in the larger art world. I really appreciate the greater clarity. Thank you for sharing.
@@jaswantkhalsa5189 Jaswant, I am thrilled to hear this!! ♥️♥️ Hooray for deep reflection and clarity! So glad it was useful to you.
In answer to the title of this video, I think I am inconsistent! 😄
Hahahaha well, inconsistent artists of the world, unite! I'm with you.
@@annelivingstonart 😂
Love the no-edit challenge, you did great! Very useful, too, thanks!
@@4seasonshelf Nan!!!! ♥️ Thank you so much! Now that you mention it, I enjoy watching other people do one take videos as well.
I create for enjoyment... I am an experimental artistic butterfly and what I decide to create and how really depends upon what has inspired me at the time. It could be anything in any medium and any style...
"experimental artistic butterfly" might be the best thing I've read in a while. 🥰
Great again. I love that you go with paper and read on. My first thought, is that we spend a lot of time thinking/watching on art materials/techniques but it is only a tiny factor of the act and product of art. These sharings are very valuable to find ourselves 🩷
@@hansoletormos Han, yes! ♥️when people find out you're an artist they always ask what medium you use, and maybe sometimes what your subject matter is. And that's it! But the story is so much larger than that.
What would be fantastic is if you’d put these and what you used in part 1 as a PDF download here so we can print them out rather than try and re-write them all. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Yes, I hear you ! We are on it. :)
By "we" I mean a viewer generously offered to make a document for us! Stay tuned.
This was amazingly useful. I'm someone who has difficulty knowing how to talk about or describe my work. Cuz it's just what I do, you know? I'll have to watch these videos several times to write it all down, though. Thank you!
I'm really, really glad it's useful for you, thanks for saying so!!! And, um...yeah. This was A LOT. Kind of like trying to take a sip out of a firehose. This is so wild to think, but in its more final draft form this quiz probably needs to be even more! hahahaha Hope you find the right number of "sips" for you, and all the awesome reflection that hopefully goes along with it!
Thanks for this outstanding exercise Anne! This is one of the most helpful things I've come across for putting the question of "what is my artistic style / voice" into perspective.
I am astonished to find that I have more self-awareness on my artistic approach than I thought. This was a "wow, where did that come from!" moment. I know that I want to explore the impact of color upon emotions, and experiment with ways to convey timelessness in landscapes and skyscapes, and even botanical still lifes. I want to celebrate creation in general. As a concerned farmer’s daughter, I also ponder how I might honor the American heritage of farming.
The biggest thing that jumps out at me from my notes is that much of what I want to paint are things I have not yet done, so the line between my "yes!" and "wish" categories is faint and blurry. I have struggled a great deal with perfectionism as a terrible barrier to expression, and I think a lot about how to loosen up and follow the direction that the medium / ground / tools are taking me. I’d really love to be much less representational.
I also want to say, the exercise is excellent for helping artists to be maximally open-minded and empathetic / sympathetic to the extreme and brilliant variety of others’ art. Having been in art school for a couple years, where we participated in endless group critiques, I really think art instructors and all art students could gain a great deal from looking at these categories and really putting some thought into how the amazing minds and hearts of other artists work, and how much effort and intention artists put into their personal acts of expression. I think this exercise could perhaps motivate art instructors and students to stop saying words like “should” or “shouldn’t”, and stop negatively judging and devaluing art that is different from their own.
This has been a great springboard for me, and has motivated me to sign up for Nicholas Wilton’s upcoming Breadcrumbs Challenge. This is a big step for me! Thank you Anne for the nudge!!!!
I really appreciate your response to this video! I'm really glad you found it valuable and that it even yielded some surprises.
I'm interested in your wishes--the subject matter honoring the American heritage of farming, seeking abstraction, color, celebrating creation...
The perfectionism thing is so insidious, isn't it? And I'm sure your art school experience didn't help. I remember I was in a painting class one time (this one was virtual, during pandemic times), and we were going through a slide show of example (famous) paintings to illustrate some ideas. At one point the moderator asked the painting instructor, "What should we think about this one?" I audibly said (while on mute) UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. There is so much right and wrong in art instruction, so much of art instructors pre-digesting and sharing how we should think about artworks, not even giving us a moment to just gaze on a piece before launching into the expert response.
Your work is amazing. So inspiring 😊🎉❤
@@AandAArtAcademy Thank you so much! 🙏🏼♥️
I'm a textile artist, not a painter, but your questions really got me thinking ( and note taking)
Thanks for your work on this. I love your low-key teaching style.
@@shmataboro8634 thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to write this note! ♥️ I'm so curious to learn (now or in the future) what your reflections are in the context of textiles art these days.
Thanks Anne, another interesting video. I think not editing is not a problem at all. It just makes the video feel more like real life.
I recently realised that the physical sensation of making the thing is very important to me and that influences preference for certain tools.
@@andreav3663 Ooo that's an awesome realization about your process! In terms of sensory experience, what is a tool you especially like? I like smoothness yet control, and often I prefer flat brushes for this reason.
@@annelivingstonart I enjoy flat brushes more than round ones and I love the effect of using a dry brush, with not too much paint but what I enjoy most of all is adding some bold oil pastel.
@@andreav3663 That sounds absolutely wonderful! Just your description of it...I can imagine the sensory joy!!!
Thank you
@@papermelonworking Thank YOU, for watching! 😀
Great exercise. I would
Love a deep dive on each of the categories. I was surprised to confess that I don’t like color (despite loving color in clothing and interiors 😩)
@@trinec9320 So interesting! I think many people prefer more muted or even b&w work for so many reasons. I have a friend who shares your preferences, I think: she dresses fairly colorfully sometimes, but finds vivid color in her art to be more than she can even bear!
Thanks for the feedback about the deep dive idea. Sounds great, I will see what I can do! 🙏🏼😀
I hope you enjoyed the rest of your Labor day Anne? I watched the video all the way through absorbing the information. I need to re-watch it and write down my answers. My problem is that I like to try things out so my subject matter, style, substrate, materials etc., change periodically. I feel I need to 'pin down' the things I am good at and get better at them but the rebel in me tells me to go off on a tangent and explore something else ! 😂 I am in my watercolour phase right now but feel the urge to do fantasy landscapes in oils! I have never used oils before! Hopefully this quiz will help me to clarify what I like and where I'm heading! ☺
I love the rebel in you, Simone! She will not be tamed!! I think there is space to focus on a project (like a series, like your recent faces) and send it out into the world as a cohesive whole, while also getting the punk rock sister what she needs, whether it's a fantasy in oils and anything else she wants!
@@annelivingstonart 😁
My canvass size and prep is very important to how I plan working with and look of finish piece. Research on the subject of the painting is vital. Color composition is equally important as shapes and marks. I like provoking and somewhat stimulating mood. Except also enjoy both quite and minimal. Basically I like to change moods. I like working at minimal 16 x 20. Except generally around 36, 40, 48. Can't wait to try my 1st 6 foot. I generally like having a semi abstract going at the same time as an impressionist landscape. They balance each other out, take worry away somewhat, help get out of a funk, stop the stupid critical thinking. Typically I paint the sides of my semi abstract and leave them white gesso for framed Impressionism. Sign bottom right for easy ID and leave a note on back with named and date. I've tried various finishes on oils. I now choose to simply oil out with walnut oil. Walnut because I'm mixing my own pigments with walnut for top layers and mixing pigments with linseed for composition and sometimes 2nd layers, depends. Some of my paintings go on for months and others just days. Some set in corners for weeks, months or years before worked on again. Some get totally scrapped sanded and different painting. While others get new ideas from solution I realized while working on a new piece. Mostly only use brush and palette knife. The diversity of different strokes and marks complimenting each other are very important to me. Most other tools feel gimmicky when I view folks abstracts. More is not better. Too many differing marks feels like grappling for a statement. Feels childish to me. I call it throwing shoes! My observation is that folks tend to go for other tool effects before fully learning the 100s of marks and textures they could be making with brush and knives. It takes strong will and massive work and time to learn that the various brushes and knives can accomplish any mark or look your after and have a much greater professional quality and character. Children love the quick sugar stimulation. Where a true adult loves refinement after years of hard work and challenge.
Thank you for this deeply considered survey of your current art practice. It's great to read about your devotion to honing your skills completely, and can imagine that people's experimentation with tools would be absolutely not your cup of tea.
Myself, I am a childish person and always will protect that profound need to try new things, push the envelope. As someone with a deficiency in dopamine I often make work that reaches others like me who deeply crave the intensity of the visual equivalent of quick sugar stimulation. It makes me feel alive! I need it like medicine. I collect and surround myself with art that is inventive or experimental, with an occasional piece of more classical or modernist work.
Like you I am a huge fan of rigor, discipline, commitment, and meaning. I really respect people like yourself who enjoy the refined fruits of their years of hard work/practice, using a considered, simple set of tools. I'll bet your work and taste are exquisite.
People who are suited for a more mature and refined practice are often baffled by, or even judging of, those of us who need a different path that includes throwing shoes and other ridiculous- or lightweight-seeming things. :) I have friends who are classically trained, and let's put it this way...they are not collecting my work! Haha. That's okay. Because they deeply enjoy a 20-year-old bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and the perfect block of aged Parmigiano Reggiano, and I like those, but also NEED to try a wild and weird ice cream with pop rocks, or develop a recipe that uses rhubarb and radishes in a Tom Ka Gai soup. Or make a soup that is also a salad, something that annoyed the crap out of one of my culinary school instructors, even though it was freaking delicious.
There's room for all of us! Art needs and requires us all to follow our true paths. I really appreciated your comment. This may not have been your intention, but it made me think about myself and my work this morning, which is a gift. Thank you!
@@annelivingstonart Thanks for that fun response. You have a wonderful personality. You probably could have made it as a writer as well. I'm not really all that down on throwing shoes. I love a lot of their work, especially when they paste text into a great composition and make it work well. The use of paint stick over the years seems to have become a rather competitive level. They just kept pushing that use of line to it's most awesomeness! As long as folks keep discovering in their art and feel good about it, is all that really matters to me.
I love how thoughtful you have been about your practice. I think that, with abstracts particularly, people are experimenting, and there's room for that, but yes... we have all seen a lot of bubble wrap. But if you have to get the bubble wrap out of your system, that is a good thing to do. Just make all those marks, and maybe it will be enough.
Can you remake these videos with definitions and examples of the terms?
I will probably look it all up, but a series of videos using images or tools as examples would be awesome.
@@rainbowrae267 this is a wonderful idea. I would love to do that! Will probably take awhile to assemble and shoot, but sounds great to me.
Thank you ! I wrote this down.
Useful. Raises new questions for me.
I'm so glad to hear it, Johan!
Nice words to think about after being asked if I was an artist. (Perhaps hobby/craft/practical items pop up. Ceramics, drawing, wood). Saw video last night I was amused by - mixed media? Acting, balloon art, a dozen kinds of paint, transfers (video cifhF0mCouA ) Enjoying some potters Vaughan Smith.. blacksmiths, musicians, a violin maker Graham Vincent, various others, search for crazy music instruments.. loads of inspiration people & things they make, one does wagons in his coach shop. "Where possible, remain amused" - Happy holiday!
@@rcarroll3204 Haha that video sounds incredible! I love hearing about your current inspirations!
Art materials are chosen to achieve my intent:)
Love this! Thank you, Lara!
I really liked your questions. They helped my hone in where I am currently at and where I want to go (wish answers).
Yes, I'm thinking that wish column holds a lot of power, actually! Thanks for checking out part two, and for the comment!
Ok... here I go:
I could make art with anything. And have.
I love underpainting a secret thing under the painting just for me and the painting process.
The labor of making the work matters more than the work itself.
The use of color has been important to me.
I don't know what I think about style and think it's a bit overrated - just make.
My paintings are vibrant.
I'm interested in work that tells a story, but the viewer might not know the story, and I don't care so much about that.
I try not to mess up paintings afterward, but honestly, the making is all that really matters to me.
I'm interested in loose, abstracted, flattish objects-in painting, how I see and how I feel, which isn't representational.
And honestly, Anne, this was great. When you started the video, I thought, "Oh, I haven't thought about any of these things. I just paint", but I HAVE thought about a lot of these things. I've made a deliberate choice. And this was so exciting to contemplate!
Also, one take is fine! And I love a paper PowerPoint list. What's important? DOING THE THING!
I'm a shitty artist who keeps making stuff anyway.
I just finished a real dog. Tried a new technique, utter failure.
It looked better half way through.
BUT
two paintings ago I did one that did not completely suck
I think the next one will be good... I always say that.
I do like your ideas
Your comment made me laugh out loud. I appreciate your raw honesty with yourself! So glad you keep making stuff! I think within all of us is a shitty artist--and if we keep working, thinking, and sometimes getting out of our own way, we have the opportunity to have some moments that yield something sublime. My artist friends says "Take care of the work, and the work takes care of you." We keep showing up and kicking ass at various levels of success. Here's to the next good one! :) and all the shitty ones!
@@annelivingstonart haha
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THANK YOU! Turns out I never say it out loud...but maybe I will in the future thanks to you! 😉
Thank you. Your style is so real and i just appreciate the way you are so comfortable in your own skin. No apologies needed😊 I'm a would be writer/artist striving to find a way to pair color with words to make the words be heard. There must be beauty. Color. And words. I do art largely for myself, especially bookbinding. The best creations simply make me smile in wonder. Where did that come from?! 😊Thx again for helping me clarify all this!
@@lindaskelton4734 Beautiful. I can imagine your books are a true gift of beauty!! 💖