Do you ever get stuck when your art hits an ugly or messy phase of the creative process? Is it difficult for you to push past these (perceived) set backs to end up with a successful painting/collage at the end of the day? You're watching the right video!
Earlier this week, I watched my friend and fellow artist, Katie Gebely ( / @katiegebely ) make this quick, 5-minute mixed media painting as a way to jumpstart her creativity: • 5-minutes Mixed Media ... . After watching her video, I had an idea to use the 5-minute exercise as a way to jump-start two stalled mixed media paintings.
This video shows the entire process, start to finish, of the roller coaster ride I took to make these two mixed media paintings. It was more of a challenge than I had expected, but in the end I ended up in a good place - it just took a LOT longer than I initially anticipated!
00:00 Mixed media process starting from blank sketchbook pages
11:55 Applying the 5-minute rule (x3) to the process after getting creatively “stuck”
43:35 Bloopers - that time Jackie completely forgot the phrase “time stamp” 🤦‍♀️
I kept going for 2 main reasons: (1) to get practice turning the project around and (2) to prove a point: the more practice we have turning things around, the less scary it becomes when we find ourselves in a rough spot. Once we get used to these rough spots being a normal part of our creative process, they become a problem to solve which is often a fun, satisfying part of the process.
Materials used: Canson mixed media sketchbook (amzn.to/3PH0Dzc), collage paper, acrylic paint, pencils, china marker, and a color shaper.
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