claude_j_greengrass in the post "My thoughts on inspiration and motivation, and how to deal with their absence"
2015-11-12 18:32
thx. I'll have a look there.
claude_j_greengrass in the post "My thoughts on inspiration and motivation, and how to deal with their absence"
2015-11-10 22:45
No problem. Glad you liked it. Do you know of any subedits that deal with Visual Design and Composition?
claude_j_greengrass in the post "My thoughts on inspiration and motivation, and how to deal with their absence"
2015-11-09 16:13
When I first started out painting, I thought, How fortunate that artists xyzzy lived near or has opportunity to paint at, such interesting locations. I wish I could have similar opportunities But on reflection, the shadows cast by my stool on the basement cement floor can inspire me.
Depending on your perspective, I'm blessed with or cursed with and excess of things to paint. So much so that I've decided to paint only two subjects for the time being: trees, and the grain elevator at Bardo Alberta. Why you may ask?
Painting trees lets me explore large number of different styles. So far in this series I have 9 trees, each in a different style and have notes on another 30 or so before I even start to approach a limit of this series. It's an easy series to create, at least for me.
As to Bardo Alberta, I re-purchased a copy of Edward Bett's "Creative Landscape Painting" which contains 70 different composition ideas. On this I've been less successful with 3 attempts and 3 failures. The fourth is underway and with 20 or more preliminary sketched I think I may be able to reverse this trend. Once I get over this block, I think this series also should flow.
...so as to advice, take one of your paintings that you like and enjoyed painting and:
a) paint it in a different style
or
b) create a different composition of the subject and paint that.
Then there is Chuck Close on Inspiration:
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If youre sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.
Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find thats almost never the case. -- Chuck Close
claude_j_greengrass in the post "My thoughts on inspiration and motivation, and how to deal with their absence"
2015-11-12 18:47
Had a browse around /r/graphic_design and some other suggested sub-edits. Nothing suitable in regards of Fine Art (design-composition)