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For those of you who have trouble reading upside down, here is the verse from the image: “Filtering out the clutter allows the truly meaningful ideas to reveal themselves in all their complexity, simplicity and sometimes paradoxical beauty.”
I filmed myself drawing this morning. I am considering posting the video on Youtube. I might make it private, just for readers of this blog to access. If anyone is interested in seeing video of these drawings, or if you have suggestions, please let me know. I could post all 12 and a half minutes of raw video in real time, or I could speed up the video to play in a couple of minutes. I watched the real time video and it gets boring after a couple of minutes, but if there’s enough interest, I might just try it.
This morning, there were many things running through my mind as I was drawing. I decided to keep the composition simple, and that’s where the writing came from. It was my attempt at cutting through the clutter of all the random thoughts as I searched for something to write that would have meaning.
When I finished the drawing and scanned the image, I noticed there were a couple of spots in the center of the flower that I left blank. I simply forgot to fill them with the pattern I had filled the others with. I almost decided to fill those spaces in, but I had already decided the drawing was complete. I resisted the urge to go back and fill those spaces in. Maybe that’s part of letting go of inhibitions. Allowing freedom also means embracing imperfections in the design.
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Hello Tim, I have been enjoying your creative process by reading and looking at your daily blog. I must say you have been helping me with my own creative process by just letting go and not being so critical of my own work. I would love to see a video of you at work. Keep up the inspiration! ~Debra
Hi Debra, I just uploaded a video of the drawing to my Youtube channel. Here’s the URL:
Thanks so much for letting me know the blog is helping you with your creative process. It helps to motivate me.
Tim
I so agree about filtering out the clutter. My mind is so full of clutter and I could really use a good filter. Your drawing is great and I like that you could leave some spots without a pattern. So many of us try to be perfectionists and it clutters the mind even more. TFS! I would love to see a speeded up version of you drawing this picture.
~Sharon R
Hi Sharon,
It’s clutter, clutter everywhere here! Thanks for the feedback. I just uploaded a video of this drawing on my youtube channel. Here’s the URL.
Tim
I need to learn to filter out more. Thanks for the uplifting and as always the encouraging sketched.
Hi Diana, You’re welcome.
Tim
Awesome drawing…so free feeling.
Hi Debbie, Thanks so much for checking out the blog!
Tim
An artist AND a writer … you certainly are the complete package, Tim! I was amazed watching you sketch this new drawing. It was as if the pen had a mind of it’s own and your hand was just the vessel in which it rode.
Hi Bonnie, Once I start drawing, I basically don’t stop until I finish – there were a couple of spots when I was writing that I had to stop to think, but when I sped up the video to 800%, those spots only last a couple of seconds. The entire raw video was 12 min. 22 sec., and I didn’t edit anything out! Sometimes it feels like the pen is moving on its own.
Tim
Dear Tim
Over the weekend I have been using the Specialty Punch-Out pad. Your work is color is so vivid. Did you always know you wanted to be artist, and if so were your parents supportive of your art?
LaSharown
Hi La Sharown, I didn’t always know I wanted to be an artist. I thought I wanted to be a writer first, then I spent two years in college as an engineering major. Then I changed my major to art. My parents were reluctantly supportive. They thought I should become an engineer and work for the government. They didn’t think it was possible to earn a living as an artist, but I proved them wrong! Tim
Well I”m new to you and to your site and videos. So far I have really enjoyed what I have seen and watched. The only problem, now I have so many things going through my mind and not enough time to try out everything. I think the one that I want to try first is the Cereal box canvas. My daughter, my son and I are all artists. We love to draw. I will say my kids have done something with there’s. Crystina is in school for Graphic Design and has designed a few posters for clubs near Nashville. Joey well he has done some CD covers and videos, but refuses to sell anything. Wants to do everything for free. That won’t pay the bills. lol. Anyways I just wanted to say hello and I am now with your help subscribed to everything. lol. Oh one more thing the free flower print off you allowed for download, my two foster daughters LOVED it. They are 15 and 16 and I am teaching them all sorts of crafts. Have to keep new artists growing out there. Ok I will hush sorry. Have a great week. Mickey Jo
Hi Mickey Jo, I’m so glad you’re liking what you see so far. It’s true that doing art for free won’t pay the bills – but sometimes doing art for money doesn’t feed the soul – so I think it’s about finding a balance. The cereal box canvas is a really good one. What I discovered is you can keep it simple by just glueing the box top closed, cover it with brown paint, let it dry and cover that with white gesso. I think I was making it more complicated in the video than it really needs to be. But I think I’ll be coming up with a few twists to the cereal box art in the near future. I hope you had a great weekend!
Tim
Love your drawings! As for imperfections, I have to embrace them because my work is full of them. lol I always say no art is ever wrong. That is what makes it so much fun!
Thanks for sharing your art and process with us!
Lynn
Hi Lynn, I like that idea that no art is ever wrong.
Tim