I know I'm not alone when I say that I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to develop my own creative voice, my style, a process that looks and feels like ME. I think and I think and I think. Thinking is good, but I've learned that sometimes thinking gets in the way. There's a time for it and then there's a time to shut it down and just DO. What to do when is what I have learned only one way---and that is by doing.
Some people call this 'trial and error'--and that is somewhat accurate to the discovery process, but I like to leave the word 'error' out of the creative process simply because we all have so many wounds about our work, and they all include a 'right' way and a 'wrong' way, when in actuality, that doesn't exist in creative thought.
Spoiler Alert: My secret is simply this--PAINT. Paint a lot. If you paint a lot, there is literally no way you will not begin to see your creative style emerge. But to do that, you have to be able to take seeing a lot of things along the way that are not it--this contrast, like dark and light, show you the way to go next.
Video Chapters:
0:00 How I use variety to overcome the parts of the process that make me scared to move forward
1:23 How I went about developing and scaling this new landscape series and the process that I use
3:47 My realizations with this particular painting and how I will go forward--this is the 'secret' part that isn't really a secret, just something that may go unnoticed.
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