I love that you turn mistakes into things. That's great advice and here you have done a magnificent job of it. My mom used to take painting classes and they would copy the teacher to paint a painting. If she dropped a blob here or there, she would always turn it into a ladybug :) And in jazz, if you hit a "horrible" sounding note, it's already in the listeners head, so you can just do a few quick little turn arounds including that note and then move on and whammo - it was "intentional. I love the humming bird one with the flowers :)
I love it that you think it’s like jazz because somebody else @suterry told me the same thing she’s a musician! And thank you so much for your compliments. I really appreciate it. I’m looking forward to hearing your interview with Jacqueline. I’ve started it but then I got interrupted!
Seriously, this is awesome. I love hearing about the artistic process, and that hummingbird stencil? I would frame that work and hang it on my wall, I like it so much!
Thanks Stone, I figure I might as well "kill multiple birds with one Stone" HA! no pun intended! I am really bad at stopping to take photos as I make art - the necessary step outs, as they are called, to put in a written tutorial or book, so I am making video so I can take stills to use and capture the process. So I figured I will write my book here on Substack, I mean, kinda makes sense since that is what Substack is all about, right?!
It sounds like you're an improviser...maybe you should do a book about improvisation in art? It could be a whole new genre! There are tons of books about musical improvisation, maybe you'll be filling a needed gap in the visual art world?
Oooh, that’s a great idea Ern! I love it. I’m going to get some jazz improvisation books out of the library to get the juices flowing. So far I’m struggling with my current direction!
Yes, I know you did, and also deleted my long (who? me?) comment...
This was so exciting… And the work is so fantastic. Mistakes? What are mistakes? There are no mistakes! Aren't you using the word "process" in here somewhere? That's all it is. PROCESS. No "mistakes"!
And you are NOT vain. At least no more than anyone else around here.
Plus the stencil thing is, once again, such a great coincidence. My SO is doing something wonderful (I think) with stencils (I never know for sure until she lets me into the studio the see… But she’s working on one project, I know, about Milton’s “Paradise Lost/Found” and stencils are involved…) Anyway, it came up again because I bought her this calendar for Xmas, a page-a-day thing where you tear a sheet off the top every day and, by the end of the year you’ve built this Japanese bonsai tree thing. Well, she’s found the most exiting part of it to be the fact that she can use the daily “tear-offs” as more stencils!! What did I know?
She just came back from teaching a drawing class at Sewanee and is about to teach a lecture on tattoos for her annual seminar at the U of Memphis (don't ask me why because neither of us have any) then it’s back to Sewanee for the Trails and Trilliums festival where she has been a regular for years. I just cook and feed the animals and try to keep my mouth shut. Who? Me?
I love that you turn mistakes into things. That's great advice and here you have done a magnificent job of it. My mom used to take painting classes and they would copy the teacher to paint a painting. If she dropped a blob here or there, she would always turn it into a ladybug :) And in jazz, if you hit a "horrible" sounding note, it's already in the listeners head, so you can just do a few quick little turn arounds including that note and then move on and whammo - it was "intentional. I love the humming bird one with the flowers :)
I love it that you think it’s like jazz because somebody else @suterry told me the same thing she’s a musician! And thank you so much for your compliments. I really appreciate it. I’m looking forward to hearing your interview with Jacqueline. I’ve started it but then I got interrupted!
That's all right, I'll watch it again LOL
Seriously, this is awesome. I love hearing about the artistic process, and that hummingbird stencil? I would frame that work and hang it on my wall, I like it so much!
Looking forward to more vids from you... :-)
Thanks Stone, I figure I might as well "kill multiple birds with one Stone" HA! no pun intended! I am really bad at stopping to take photos as I make art - the necessary step outs, as they are called, to put in a written tutorial or book, so I am making video so I can take stills to use and capture the process. So I figured I will write my book here on Substack, I mean, kinda makes sense since that is what Substack is all about, right?!
That's part of what I am using Substack for, at least when it comes to the 'Pages'... so yeah, makes perfect sense to me :-)
very clever, and useful, go for it :-))
It sounds like you're an improviser...maybe you should do a book about improvisation in art? It could be a whole new genre! There are tons of books about musical improvisation, maybe you'll be filling a needed gap in the visual art world?
And you look great, by the way!
And thank you for the compliment 🙏🏽😌
Oooh, that’s a great idea Ern! I love it. I’m going to get some jazz improvisation books out of the library to get the juices flowing. So far I’m struggling with my current direction!
Yes, I know you did, and also deleted my long (who? me?) comment...
This was so exciting… And the work is so fantastic. Mistakes? What are mistakes? There are no mistakes! Aren't you using the word "process" in here somewhere? That's all it is. PROCESS. No "mistakes"!
And you are NOT vain. At least no more than anyone else around here.
Plus the stencil thing is, once again, such a great coincidence. My SO is doing something wonderful (I think) with stencils (I never know for sure until she lets me into the studio the see… But she’s working on one project, I know, about Milton’s “Paradise Lost/Found” and stencils are involved…) Anyway, it came up again because I bought her this calendar for Xmas, a page-a-day thing where you tear a sheet off the top every day and, by the end of the year you’ve built this Japanese bonsai tree thing. Well, she’s found the most exiting part of it to be the fact that she can use the daily “tear-offs” as more stencils!! What did I know?
She just came back from teaching a drawing class at Sewanee and is about to teach a lecture on tattoos for her annual seminar at the U of Memphis (don't ask me why because neither of us have any) then it’s back to Sewanee for the Trails and Trilliums festival where she has been a regular for years. I just cook and feed the animals and try to keep my mouth shut. Who? Me?