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I am developing a new body of work around the themes of breath, water, earth and life in the Anthropocene. They will likely be separated into individual bodies of work, but I find it more productive to work in interconnected ways. I find it helps me keep momentum and stay productive. I thought I would share some processes and works I have been working on this week, as it is a mid-term break. I have a little time to do the work I have been planning for the last two terms. These works are unlikely to see the light of day, but process is essential in art. Making leads to making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

reflections on creativity and proccess in art-making <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Much like other research forms, art-making is a practice, practice and reflection process. It is making and thinking. Good work seldom emerges all at once – but develops over time, with the themes being explored by the artist. Creativity, I am convinced, is not the stuff of alchemy; humans have an immense capacity for creativity. Nevertheless, like all talents, it requires cultivation. Care, fresh air and maintenance. Creativity is not a finite resource; instead, like a muscle, it needs exercise, and the more one uses it, the more it is available. It requires a certain tolerance for mess, chaos, and experimentation. Perhaps what creativity truly thrives on is a lack of fear of failure. The oh f-ck that did not work of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Boundaries to entry into art making are relatively low; some artists work with trash. I worked on my PhD with Rubble, a ubiquitous commodity that random strangers would offer me piles of each time I required more. Even if you are committed to being an oil painter or watercolour painter, shockingly to many, it is still possible to make oil paint from raw ingredients; one can find both minerals and ochre required fairly readily and the oils at pretty much any local hardware store, despite what a visit to your local art supply store may suggest.
In some cases, a body of work develops between practice, theme, and research, which takes time but can be spread over multiple weeks, months or years for people with other paid employment. A small amount of persistence is key; finding creative solutions also seems to fuel the creative impulse, so I encourage you to lean in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proccess work <\/h4>\n\n\n\n


In my early process, I will usually explore ways of representing the theme, and materials for mark-making. In the later ones I’m exploring scale, of marks used. Some sense of composition would best work before properly planning the works for production. Although I prefer to leave a sense of openness in my final works, I do like to have a sense of what is possible and if I need to produce anything. For example, do I need to make or collect ash? Do I need to reddy some more negatives from my photographic archive to work with, and so on? Below, you can get a sense of both mark-making materials and process explorations of emulsion application. I think the best options for these are complete coverage or total coverage with a bleed in the vertical direction. Side-to-side is more successful in the more minor works than in the more significant works. I need to use a different application brush for larger artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few reflections on my process of working, in Cyanotype and refection on cultivating creativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45654645,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2514],"tags":[730983701,756119216,62228,6956557],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-anthropoceneart","tag-artsreasearch","tag-explorations","tag-proccess"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbs6o0-process","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1280,"url":"https:\/\/brigittastoneart.com\/?p=1280","url_meta":{"origin":913,"position":0},"title":"Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags","author":"BrigittaStone","date":"June 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. 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