Many artists have warm-up practices, or do a bunch of research earlier than plunging into ‘actual’ work. This seems like an apparent good strategy to begin your portray session, so why have not I been doing it frequently? I dip into it as soon as in awhile however haven’t managed to maintain it on any common foundation. Here’s a submit about quickies. It’s nearly THREE YEARS previous! It isn’t the final time I engaged with small research, however nonetheless. Here’s a video on collage with scraps from nearly two years in the past.
One of many many issues I realized – or re-learned – in my residency at Truro Heart for the Arts is the worth of this apply. Whether or not you name them warm-up items or research, the important side is that they’re NOT artwork. They’re your playground, a strategy to warm-up the hand, the attention, the artistic muscle that makes visible selections shortly. You do not have to point out any of them to anyone. I do not maintain an everyday sketchbook as such as a result of I wish to work in moist media – paint or collage – and in multiples. I might should let one piece dry earlier than turning the web page. However these warm-up research (I will name them research, or études) are like a sketchbook.
Do you may have an everyday apply of working in a sketchbook or doing fast research? I might like to listen to about it. Please remark under. What’s the worth of this apply you to? What format to you utilize?
Listed below are ‘études’ from the final couple of weeks right here. They’re on numerous papers in numerous media, and the sizes are round 6×8″ or 5×7″, various a bit.
