It's nearly one year since we started doing this. Has your "five minutes a day," or whatever time you made for it, made a difference? In your voice? Emotional confidence? Habitual practice?
I intend to finish the year. Do we want to go on?
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Yep, made a difference. The funny thing about the stage I'm at now is that the ones that actually look ok are the ones I never would have guessed when I was doing them. If something does look ok, it's not for reasons that I was aiming for. I can't tell, in the middle of the act, whether I'm on to something good or just making a "practice". Sometimes when I get near the end, however, I'll say out loud - "Stop ruining it! Stop ruining it!"
ReplyDeleteAha! "Un-guessed good ones." My experience too! I think it is common to creativity. Writing as well as visual arts. Ask Tracy if it's true for composing. I think it means just letting the creative work flow. Let it flow, not worrying about criticism or self-criticism. Believe it's more empowered than we know. After all, it is a gift from God. Enjoy the doing. Look at it later. Be surprised.
ReplyDeleteThat is part of the reason for pressing on. You know, the "five minutes a day" thing. There are things hiding in the 5 minutes. I have found the discovery of good things in the assumed muddle grows with the passage of time. There is the wonderful wonder: "Did I do that?"
"Stop ruining it!" Don't know how many times I've said that out loud, as well. In "The Joy of Watercolor," David Millard says, "Practice stopping before you are done." I find that really hard, even more so with watercolor than pencil.