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Posted: October 25, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 15 CommentsSketching. The best form of procrastination while grading student assignments. It could also be surfing the web, making tea or walking the dog. 25 down, 90 to go.
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Really good sketch. I like the lineal composition. Now, focus… no more sketches until you finish!
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I think responding to blog comments would also fall under the title of procrastination.
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So, you are saying it is my fault now? I was pleased to see that it took you more than 4 hours to respond. Have you finished marking yet?
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That’s funny. I went out to see a movie. To get my mind off the fact that I was procrastinating. It worked.
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Did you even read your own reply then before your pressed Post Comment????? Let me paraphrase… “I procrastinated (by going to a movie) to take my mind off procrastinating… and it worked”. Of course, it worked! But all you are doing is putting off the inevitable. I assume you went to see Hamlet? : )
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The Ten Commandments.
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The background is so fresh and light. How do you decide on your background for a still life?
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Good question Pat. This background is unusual in that I painted it first. Often the background colour is a derivative of some of the colours in the subject (and therefore painted last) but in this case I was experimenting with a colour I use infrequently: Winsor Blue. I read an article by Hazel Soan about blues in the latest issue of Watercolor Artist Magazine, and this particular blue was used in a very diluted wash. I loved the way the tint looked, so I tried it here in the background.
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Donot wait any longer, eat the pears. They are lovely.
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That’s what usually happens after I paint them.
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Procrastination – also known as displacement activity. Being a novel writer I have come to understand that procrastination is the unconscious mind working/making decisions before the next word is written; the next image committed to the paper. Procrastination is a vital part of the artistic process – each time we see an autumn tree, observe a transaction between two people we continue that process. Very underrated: our unconscious mind is what ultimately gives us a voice and procrastination is how we access that part of ourself.
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I’ve never quite thought about it like that Chris and you have given me a lot to ponder. I’m not sure the type of procrastinating you are referring to is what I am doing though, because it doesn’t have anything to do with the creative process. In fact, I would much rather be painting than grading, and when it comes time to paint I get down to it right away, although there is often thinking and planning time in there too. It’s when it comes to something I don’t want to do, like grading, that I find a million other things to occupy my time.
There was a very interesting obituary in the Globe and Mail this week about the Canadian artist Robert Genn, who I had never heard of. I love the advice he gave his children:“Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.”
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Lovely, as usual. I find pears so appealing. Love to look at them, paint them…no other fruit has that appeal for me other than pumpkins, oh wait, those are vegetables.
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They are very beautiful shapes, I agree.
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I have a copy of this in my kitchen, it’s a great piece…………….I love it. With my name how could I not?
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