Category: Creative Practice / Process
Inspiration and the creative process
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(versión en español abajo) A summer day in London with an old friend. We walked for hours, we walked the canal. The sun was on the water, a sense of the partial eclipse in the light. I kept stopping to take photos. Water as a pattern everywhere. Back home on my computer I blended a…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. MOSTO The dusky plum of grape must fermenting after the vendimia, the last of the harvest turning to wine.OLOROSO The deep amber-mahogany of an aged Oloroso, the sherry that gives Jerez its name.MEMBRILLO Quince, the orange-gold fruit ripening in gardens this month.ACEITUNA The green-grey of olives darkening…
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The creative process continues. My love of maps has led me to create this one (shown below), inspired by The Aesthete (worth reading to understand the beginnings) and further inspired by a photo of a wall in a car park in England (See above). I didn’t know when I took this photo in the summer…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. PONIENTE the warm west wind off the bay as the heat of summer begins to ease.RETORNO a quiet, settled green marking the return to routine after the busyness of summer.VENDIMIA the amber-gold of grapes during the September harvest around Jerez and El Puerto.HIGO CHUMBO the vivid magenta…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. CHANCLA the cheap rubber pink of beach flip-flops. CALIMA the hazy, dust-filled sky that blurs the horizon during the hottest stretch of summer.TINTO tinto de verano, the red wine and lemonade mix.NOCHE the deep, warm dark of an August night, still holding the day’s heat. Use them…
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(versión en español abajo) Last month’s daily prompt number 20 (LINE) started simply: A few drawn lines on paper with my new calligraphy pen. Those lines found their way under and over two different images. The first pasted into a circle and hung on a local wall. The second, layered over the beach at La…
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(versión en español abajo) This month’s COAST of LIGHT daily prompt number 17 (MATERIAL WORLD as a pattern) found its way into a new set of works this last week. The material in question (as seen in the images above): a cracked window at Girona train station. The glass had fractured from the inside, internal…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. GIRASOL named after the sunflower fields that fill the Andalucían countryside in July. CANDELA Spanish for flame or firelight, capturing the heat and energy of the month.HIGUERA the fig tree, in fruit right now, with flesh this exact deep dusty rose.PISCINA simply “swimming pool,” that bright artificial…
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Two of this month’s daily prompts: 17, MATERIAL WORLD (as a pattern), and 20, LINE, found their way into the same artwork this last week. The image of the sea was taken here at the coast, then combined with a pattern from the interior of our car. Layered together, the crinkled, patterned surface of the…
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At a recent Create & Connect art session, we completed the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test, devised by psychologist Ehrig Wartegg in 1934. The idea is simple. A series of lines and shapes. You complete them. You reveal yourself. You can read more about it here. What emerged from it, after sitting with the drawings for…
