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Simply....risky behaviour..

21/3/2014

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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.
Picture

You can see more on my Arty Blog here..

8 Comments
elaine link
21/3/2014 05:40:51 pm

I was so distracted by those beautiful tulips I didn't notice the painting at first. I am sure this could produce some interesting results - very daring!

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Freda
22/3/2014 10:04:48 am

Tulips do their own thing too!

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Lucille
21/3/2014 06:58:38 pm

Not deliberately risky, but I do like taking something I have made and discarded and then re-using it. The new result is richer for having had several stages to it but I don't have the patience to plan it that way if that makes sense.

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Freda
22/3/2014 10:06:34 am

A friend (I'll post about her work soon) works in layers adding richness in a similar way..

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julia payne
21/3/2014 10:43:44 pm

in my yoga teaching, i try to stay in the present moment, without any agenda for the class. there is no lesson plan, and what happens is a direct response to who is present, and how the energy of the students "feels" to me as i teach. sometimes, i will suddenly decide to offer something completely offbeat, and at times pretty esoteric in terms of what folks might expect in a yoga class. yet it always seems to work out. i have yet to have someone not ever return because of a class like that. and i might get comments that they were amazed how much the class helped them. but in the moment, i WILL feel a pause, and wonder if i should take the risk. i always trust that my intuition is telling me something valid. maybe there are no mistakes when we are open-hearted and connected...maybe mistakes happen when we are functioning from a place of fear....perhaps taking a risk can't even be considered a risk in that sense? ....:-)

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Freda
22/3/2014 10:02:37 am

Your classes sound very interesting! I like that last sentence - 'maybe there are no mistakes.......' From the heart always seems to work. Wonderful Julia. Thank you for explaining.

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Jane
22/3/2014 09:50:01 am

I love this painting! Isn't it one of several you did perhaps using the same 'risky' technique ? I'm rather risk adverse and it's a real handicap when trying to paint.

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Freda
22/3/2014 10:04:18 am

The more you do the braver you get I think! The painting is one of a series based on the garden at dusk, and I just couldn't part with this one.

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