What is your biggest obstacle to making art?
I have been trying to figure out how to make my small dining area into a studio space. My sense is that this will open up the possibilities for me to create work again but for now without that I am stuck. I am interested to know what obstacles other Culturalistas face to make work, or maybe I should say to be making work as often as you would like... is it a lack of time, space, other responsibilities, cultural imperatives...? let me know! Would love to exchange with you on this subject.
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Permalink Reply by Wayne Harjula on -
What are you waiting for? So a rhetorical question. I find excuses not to do things the hard way, but the bull by the horns is usually what it ends with. I find I compromise and with great reasoning that to make a mess may create the wrong impression from observers/visitors when in fact the curiosity it invokes can spur unforeseen changes and sometimes help the rendering necessary. Time is only to waste, hindrance is a lifelong condition and I have to get back to work, I can brag about all my responsibilities on my grave stone but until then it will not improve my artistic condition, love the picture, it inspired me to write, thank you.Wayne
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Permalink Reply by Cari Ann Shim Sham* on -
Right now my biggest obstacle to making my art is money.
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Permalink Reply by cheryl gravitt on -
Hi Cari,
I will tell you friend, create and the money will come. Yes, sometimes as painful as it is, "day jobs," are needed.
It's funny, I sold my first drawing at the end of 2008, (my very first, ) and I went nuts, yeah, framed the money order, and the Artwork too, LOL, it went on a music cd.
I know it's discouraging my friend. :>(
I've only been computer literate about 2 years now, if not for getting computer literate, I probably would just have kept creating, and putting it back.
I sold 2 more drawings at the beginning of this year, and now am doing 3 more for the patron who bought my first Art in 2008.
The crazy thing is I live in an "Artist's colony," yes, almost the entire main road of my town is an Artist's Colony. The High Museum of Art is right down the road from me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't know how to promote my Artwork, but I realize if I ever want alot of exposure, I'm going to have to turn into a pushy Artist.
Please don't quit Cari, please don't. I've noticed something about most creative things, and making money at them. Writing is a very good example of this: It's like you're in a state of hibernation, you create, maybe turn a manuscript in, get discouraged, kind of give up on anything ever coming from it, then time goes by, and there it is again, (I've got chillbumps typing this now,) anyway, you give up, then, get a phone call, someone saw your work, and they want to buy it, yes, it's magic! :>)
Don't give up my friend, don't give up!
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Permalink Reply by thomas j armstrong on -
all of those, now w/ summer work, too close ,hot so I just ay night ,w/all mags reference books etc layed out on floor, make small sketches over coffee w/ pencil, of what I want to blow up this fall say I were to go back school per se...and I shelve everything or file all coffee doodles, even if only 2inches, I hold for future blow up, like one was a shot , photo of a frame of the sword and belt of joan of arc from movie the messenger..shot off the screen, 1/30th sec asa100 f 2, well later the image became a man's chest arms torso and head towering over a vortex of water in a lake and I turned it into an illustration for a chapter in marshalls lakota way, in which theindian, native american has to walk a lake to meet his fate and is swallowed up by a underlying force
Also I had 12 images idea doodles on a board constantly set up acroosthe room and , one photto there ,of bicycle handle bars became, at askance side view, and after 2 1/2 beers, a bowing cloaked man out of a shakespearian tragdedy..so you just keep things up posted constantly
W no space is terrible but I took tree of life which is on my set on c culture I think, the 14 x 17 and went out to the gerocery store at 2am and had the clerk pull me a roll of butcher paper 8 ft long, went home and just decided to treat it as a job cause had sold twice already....layed out all colors in the plastic dishes you get tahini and oil from the food coop, soup cans for water and layed up the trunck like jack in the bean stalk, then lightend right then darkened the left, then just went like a machine and added the blk rock, then flecked white,then wash of turq, thenall the way up added 230 green leafs then 30 yellow flowers from the $1 paints from the craft store, then 30 berries, then blk and wh highlights I just treated it like a production piece
another fluke was a newsarticle of wild turkeys from the paper, walking up a hill, all of a sudden I saw a girl, huntrees looking back,,shoulder was one of turkeys, do I blanked out field to make her head and torso, added quiver, whited out all other turks save the necks that became 3 small figures in winter robes walking in the snow below her like ancestaral ghosts, left twigs that became trees and if blow from 4 x 6 to full 30 by 50 this fall will be my own colloquial bev dolittle.......see if this goes thru
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Permalink Reply by thomas j armstrong on
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oh time... good book at lib by joe dowden water color two books in one
found straw blowing technique, cousin gave me 20 8x10 frames, taold me to do trout flies and pan fish bobbers but I was taken by the blow meth and brought up a swamp scene w/ the straw and it became, w/blobs on bottom and scene from either frankenstiens mob charging the castle or mob watching torchment of joan of arc at the stake all accidental...easy for me to have happy accidents since not good draughtmen ..yet see my plags of letour or other ports on site
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Permalink Reply by Lyean Inocencio on -
Earthquakes....
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Permalink Reply by Nico Daswani on -
what do you mean, Lyean?
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Permalink Reply by Martin Bezzina Wettinger on -
In a certain way my greatest obstacle is also money. I am the bread winner of a family with three children. So I have a full time job as a mathematics teacher. I also give private tuition to try to make ends meet but it is never enough. Lastly I have my own studio in the centre of Valletta the Capital city of Malta were I live.
I spend all most all my free time wood carving with some quarrels with my wife. I have more time to carve in the holidays. I hope that when my children grow older and they will be responsible of themselves I will be able to take wood carving full time. I also hope that the economic situation would be better by then.
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Permalink Reply by Julie Bernstein Engelmann on -
There is always going to be something else that needs to be done. What I've realized is that when I don't do my art for too long, I start to get "malnourished" - lose my sense of direction, feel bleak, unsettled. Now that I recognize what that feeling is, it tells me I must get in the studio urgently. Everything else will just wait. And it will.
You are certainly right that carving out a space in your home dedicated to your creativity will be the best treasure you can give to yourself.
Oh, and whenever I really want to get in the studio and make progress in my work, I schedule a show! Works wonders.
All the best to you with your new sacred space!
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Holmes on -
This is sooooo true -Your first paragraph caught my eye, I'm not the only one wooo hooo! When I create everything else runs more smoothly & life just falls into place :)
Have a great day
Dawn
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Permalink Reply by Alaine Handa on -
Time, Space, Funding/Money. Finding time to create, make mistakes, re-envision, edit, re-edit would be wonderful but scheduling dancers who are available is rather a challenge. Space costs money, of course... Getting funding is a whole other challenge.
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Permalink Reply by Juliet Mevi-Shiflett on -
me! i sometimes feel i am not imaginative enough to create good art. but I never stop trying.
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