Simply....risky behaviour..

Do you indulge in risky behaviour?

Risk/uncertainty/imperfection/accidental effects/randomness/daring (see yesterday's video)

I am interested in the part these things play in creative endeavours of all kinds.

In my own work I sometimes deliberately add a random effect.

It works like this. I am well into a painting, it is looking good, there are some nice passages, but....it's a bit, well - predictable. Summoning up my courage I load the brush - perhaps with a colour I've not yet used in the painting, perhaps by just streaking it right across the palette, then I turn away completely and paint a stroke or two at random! I turn around and see what I have done....

What I have done is set myself a new challenge and I look at the painting for a while (actually I usually go and make a cup of coffee at this point). Then, it may be straight away, or it may be the next day, decisions have to be made. Do I try and retrieve the previous harmony and balance incorporating the new elements, or have they set me off on a new and original tangent. Whichever way I go it's more exciting than it was!

Love it.

Here is one of my paintings. Very abstract. It's called The Pink Calls To The Yellow.

You can see more on my Arty Blog here..