If you're over-attached to one element in your piece, and you're struggling with your piece, then you should get rid of, or change the thing you're overly attached to.... There was a story that went with this. And after the artist removed the element they were most attached to, the piece worked out...
I'm not sure if that's true or not... but there are a few pieces that I'm struggling with... nothing looks right, but I'm overly attached to one element of the painting....
the chandelier:
The girl:
the background:
But I'm not quite ready to get rid of those things... Maybe that means that they are the things that I most need to change...
probably... I think, by holding on to them as they are, I'm not allowing the pieces to change... and become what they're supposed to become...
It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
-Anais Nin
I think I'm doing that with some of my art work...
Okay... I think I just needed to get that out of my system.... maybe now I can get some stuff done!
1 comment:
That sounds like sound advice to me. :-) Thanks for sharing the process of your work, it helps.
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