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[yodartist]

17.01.2024.

Wednesday brings a full workday for me. I aim to create a watercolour to refine my digital sketches for a series of paintings I'm currently working on. Additionally, I plan to draw the landscape outside my window using white pen on black paper, as the frigid -10°C temperature makes outdoor sketching impossible.

Being in Estonia is a wonderful experience, and I would regret not capturing Estonia's beauty in my artwork. Over a year has passed, yet I haven't drawn a single thing, despite the stunning landscapes revealed during my daily walks.

An invitation has arrived for me to spend three hours at a spa – Estonia is renowned for its delightful Nordic spas. My month-long subscription is ending soon, and a spa visit might be a tempting option. However, it would likely encroach upon my full workday and disrupt my drawing plans. This has happened to me far too often.

I need to make progress on my paintings and adhere to my scheduled work time. Only by doing so do I have a chance to complete ten paintings in four months and also create a dozen drawings of Estonia.

But then, a question arises: can I truly call my artistic pursuits "work"? Here in Estonia, I have no exhibitions, no income from my artwork. This brings my activities back to the realm of a hobby.

The "hobby" label sticks in my head, eroding my motivation. "Spa, or anywhere really," I tell myself, "since I have no actual work, just a hobby."

Yet, I know I will regret not painting. Procrastination and an inability to say "no" to temptation will gnaw at me, diminishing my self-esteem and professional integrity as an artist. My drawing technique still requires refinement, and I'm not seizing this chance to be surrounded by nature, create multiple drawings, and progress in landscaping—crucial for my upcoming paintings.

In these moments, I feel trapped, weak, and indecisive. A failure in the making, I fear my weaknesses will forever hold me back from achieving true artistic greatness.

[phurrafang]

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[seakclauswinkler]

‚ Schlange Auto Hügel ‚ #SEAK #ClausWinkler #SEAKClausWinkler #artiststory #artiststorys #artiststories #artistsstory #artistsstorys #artistsstories #künstlergeschichten #artjournal #artistjournal #journal #Journaling #Künstlerjournal #Artistsjournal #artistjournaling #artistsjournals #artistsjournaling #Kunstjournal #künstlerjournals #arbeitsprozess #curatorsart #kuratorenkunst #galleryart #galerienkunst #artmarketart #kunstmarktkunst #curatorsart #curatorart (hier: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMu-PHotj-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[albertayebisackey]

Saturday 12th January 2019 - My Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse

[randinrichards]

Working on a new little project- bound these books made from old paintings and prints. Now they’re being recycled into a collaborative art project! . #artistsjournal #quarantinebookbindingclub #pegandawlbinds #wonderwomenproject2020 (at Lansing, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZRvYVh5Gk/?igshid=1dprns0ujsgn7

[vivekcontemporary]

Creating ‘Dramatic Decay’

The production of ‘Dramatic Decay’ has been very insightful to idea behind my technique. It has allowed to me to see how my use of watercolours have changed. The seemingly dainty and blurred puddles of watercolour that are no longer present in my recent works are a reflection that this style is no longer one I want to pursue. For instance, ‘Fuchsia Bloom’ and ‘Autumn Bouquet’ are examples of the dainty, illustrative collection which I haven’t been producing lately. The realistic style has overtaken, and it’s a nicer painting to accomplish. I enjoyed looking at the decayed yellow rose and seeing how I could make it look beautiful despite its rather depressing state – so of course this piece was very enjoyable and sobering at the same time.

The result is seasoned with the pepper of a black watercolour splash which finishes the piece off very nicely.

The choice to keep the stalks of a grey/green hue is due to the attention I want the roses to have. With pieces like these, less is more. An overly intricate piece would be damaging to its final presence.

[fabfianda]

Holy Owl! #sketchbook #sketching #sketch #artistsjournal #artjournal #instaart #instagood #art #artist #graphic #pen #ink #portrait #draw #drawing #creative #drawdaily #sketchdaily #sketchingeveryday #drawingeveryday #watercolor #ballpointpen #ballpoint #coloredpencils #crosshatching #inktober2016

[annabelwyattart]

A gift to meeeee looking forward to filling this with A-R-T and the inevitable food spills... I swear it’ll be put in a museum one day - “look this angry Brummie woman got ketchup on this page of loosely sketched comedy school boy penises” 🍆😂 . . . . . #mynewtoy #fabriano #artistsjournal #artistsbooks #newsketchbook #newartsupplies http://bit.ly/2CPPwg8

[sweetvioletskies7]

“She had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces.” How many faces do you need to peel off before you get acquainted to the real you?

IG : pritika7

[yodartist]

16.01.2024

I just found out that Ello, a social network for artists, shut down a few months ago. I wasn't using Ello a lot, but the news made me think about how things work in the world.

Ello was a well-made platform with a strong community of dedicated artists. It tried to run it without making a lot of money, unlike most popular social networks. Ello didn't have ads or promoted posts, which was great for artists but probably a financial problem for the owners. Maybe because of this, Ello stopped working one day, showing that you can't survive without making money.

Ello's story showed me that it's not enough to create great things if you want them to keep going. The economy is important. If you don't pay attention to the business side, you're going to fail! Just like many great artists throughout history have failed because they didn't know how to manage the business side of their art. It's crazy to think about how many great works of art we've never seen because of this.

On the other hand, there are a lot of artists who focus more on business than on their art. That's why there's so much mediocre art around today.

Focusing too much on business means you don't have enough time to develop your artistic skills. It also often leads to making the same kind of art over and over again, which gets boring quickly.

So, I think the business side is important for everything, including art. But finding the right balance between making art and being business-minded is tricky. It can lead to either art that never finds viewers or buyers, or to art that is too low-skilled and repetitive.

[phurrafang]

If you like this, you should check out my collection of over 50 curated prompt sketchbooks available on Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/honeyrockza www.honeyrocksa.com Insta: https://www.instagram.com/honeyrocksa/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/honeyrocksa Pin: https://pinterest.com/honeyrockza/ DA: https://www.deviantart.com/phurrafang Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/phurrafang Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/honeyrockza Etsy: http://etsy.com/shop/honeyrockza Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/honeyrockza/shop #sketchbook #sketchbookchallenge #drawing #drawingprompts #drawingchallenge #deviantartist #artisticexpressions #illustrationinspiration #inspireart #honeyrockza #artisticjourney #creativeprocess #deviantartcreators #sketchbookjourney #artpromptadventure #creativesketching #dailydoodle #artpromptchallenge #artistsjournal #sketchbookideas #createeveryday #inspire #create #dailyartchallenge #beinspired #draw #sketch #draweveryday #drawingmotivation

[seakclauswinkler]

Another list of why’s, why the artist is painting this painting. - Balancing the overstimulation the painting, and my artist name is giving people. A overstimulation with doesn’t tell, or dictate you who tobe intimate with. Although the possible just binary ‚ CL / KL ‚ Konnotations suggesting there are persons with clitorises being involved, can be read as the very opposite from a willing/ triggered by him/ her self, or outside source perion at a Lgbtq frequency. Due the world ‚ Claus ‚. The world ‚ claus ‚ with in German language can be although interpretated as steal it, take it, have it, nick it, thief it, etc. like the women, some women should go steal, Claus it? Or the artwatching person is moving away from women/ a binary lifestyle? Or the artviewer moves towards a binary lifestyle? Maybe leaving his rotations, being glued to a single women, marrying her? Or the artowning person is so alpha, that the women with in the social circle are sharing him? The painting maybe reflecting the lifestyle situation having children with multiple women? Or greenlighting being happy with choice of ceo/ coo, the company owner has successful installed. - Bettering the life of the artist. - Strengthening the artists mind. - Nurturing Stability with in the artist. #SEAK #ClausWinkler #SEAKClausWinkler #artiststory #artiststorys #artiststories #artistsstory #artistsstorys #artistsstories #künstlergeschichten #artjournal #artistjournal #journal #Journaling #Künstlerjournal #Artistsjournal #artistjournaling #artistsjournals #artistsjournaling #Kunstjournal #künstlerjournals #arbeitsprozess #curatorsart #kuratorenkunst #galleryart #galerienkunst #artmarketart #kunstmarktkunst #curatorsart #curatorart (hier: LVR-Freilichtmuseum Lindlar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfD8L18oFHC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kerousselle-blog]

Spare a thought for all those unfinished paintings, rejected by the perfectionist in pursuit of glory that never comes #art #artist#oilpainting #sketchbook #sketch #contemporaryart #modernart #artistsjournal #artiststudio #studio #design #nzartist #nzart #travel#landscape #spain #sella #mountains #alicante #painting#perfectionism#destruction #artistsway #unblocked #demons

[yodartist]

16. 01. 2024

It's 10 o'clock. Time to get to work on my paintings. About a week ago, I decided to plan out my work schedule, hoping to boost my progress and improve my organization.

In a typical week, I have six working days. Saturday's my day off, the only one when the whole family's free, so we spend it together. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays are my most productive days. I've calculated I have ten hours to work on those, so I call them "full-working days." Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays are "half-working days" with only three or four hours available.

The plan's still rough around the edges, but it's already cleared my head about work organization. Even though the same question keeps turning in my brain, "What for?". I've been staying in Estonia for a bit more than a year now, a country I deeply appreciate, especially for its stunning Nordic nature. But Estonia's too small for a robust art community or market. Making art here feels like, as the French say, "pissing in a cello."

Art is a form of communication. If it's not shared, it becomes just a collection of molecules sharing space. Like anything in this world, it becomes nothing without a conscious mind to observe and give it meaning.

Creating art in a place where art barely exists is tough. But the possibility of moving to London next year fuels my painting, driving me to finish my series with cubic figures and houses. I don't want to arrive in London empty-handed, and finding a studio space there worries me—it's an overcrowded and expensive city.

So, back to work! Hopefully, this new schedule will tame the chaos in my work process and bring some much-needed stability, allowing me to create about 10 paintings before I leave Estonia in four months, in July.

[yodartist]

15.01.2024

It took me a few hours to find the perfect bush, an element crucial to the middle ground I sought for my painting series. The middle ground separates the white figure made of cubes in the foreground from the white houses in the background.

I'm talking to you about the series of paintings with cubic figures and their houses that I'm currently working on. Sometimes, the sheer length of artistic research like this surprises me, especially when I consider if viewers will even notice the bush!

So, I wanted a bush typical of French gardens, as I made sketches for this series in the French town of Niort. I envisioned it with cold green leaves and dense foliage to cast contrasting hard shadows, highlighting the white cubes of the figure through the stark contrast between light and dark.

I also desired a variable top contour for the bush, allowing me to adapt it to different backgrounds in future paintings. My requirements proved challenging to meet. Perhaps research would be easier if I were in France now, exploring directly instead of relying on the internet.

Regardless, I scoured online images. Google kept pushing Estonian websites, offering little information on French gardens. It's a curious thing—we often think of the internet as global, but research platforms and social media track our location, restricting us to content from our immediate area.

I employed various tricks to immerse myself in the French online space, like VPNs and fake locations, but they yielded little success in easing my research.

Finally, I turned to BARD, a Google AI language model I find helpful at times. BARD's solution worked magic today. I found my ideal bush: the Laurus Nobilis. It seems to tick all the boxes. A quick digital sketch suggests it's a perfect fit, but only transferring it to canvas will tell for sure.

The next step? Taking my digital sketch and turning it into a living, breathing painting on canvas. The most exciting and, at the same time, the most daunting step of all.

[yodartist]

14.01.2024

I am 39 years old and feel like everything is too late for me. Writing is too late, my new artistic path in London is too late, developing my art technique is too late. And what for?

These days, artists become famous young because there are people who can make a lot of money from a young artist and half as much money from an artist of 39 years old.

We all love what is young and new. We love freshness and innocence, not old and sad. We are attracted by the energy of life, like by young trees, not by half-lifed trees.

A sad reminder to myself that I am like one of these trees in the forest that will keep living like all the other trees in the forest. And that will die one day, while the forest would not even notice.