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What If I’m Out Of Ideas? | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. What If I’m Out Of Ideas? June 3, 2009 in Creative Blocks. There are often a lot of nameless, free-floating fears that underpin creative blocks. This isn’t one of them. Where are my ideas these days? What if I don’t feel creative? What if I’m out of ideas? Feeling like one has run out of ideas, on the other hand, is one of the more impressive methods we use to short-circuit the process and strengthen the patterns toward being blocked. What b...

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Letting Go | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. May 23, 2009 in Creative Blocks. I found a painting just outside the apartment a while back. Maybe the person who made the painting put it against that particular wall because some of the designs it implements reflect similar forms, because the grafitti inspired it. Which seems likely. But that’s not the most interesting aspect of the painting to me. My heart went out immediately to the artist when I saw it. Who hasn’t been there? With which we ...

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The Creativity Portal | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. July 5, 2009 in The Creative Process. Every now and then I’d like to offer up a simple post that shows you a great, helpful resource you can find on the web. This is the first, and it’s for a really expansive, helpful website called The Creativity Portal. Click here to visit. Creative Blocks and Play. Creative Blocks and Limits. What If I’m Out Of Ideas? Like what you see? Friend Me On Facebook. Friend Me On Facebook. A Brooklyn Artist On Twitter.

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About | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. I’m a moderately (. Moderately) successful artist living in Brooklyn. I write about the creative process, creative blocks, and living the artist’s life. Come join the discussion! Creative Blocks and Play. Creative Blocks and Limits. What If I’m Out Of Ideas? Like what you see? Friend Me On Facebook. Friend Me On Facebook. A Brooklyn Artist On Twitter. Special Thanks to Gierszewski on Flickr for this month's header photograph! Ideas aren't r...

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Remaining An Artist | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. May 2, 2009 in Creative Blocks. 8220;Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” — T.S. Eliot. All of us have seen friends who are artists put aside their art and not return. An old jazzer I knew, who scored big bands in the ’50s, heard from a friend who’d stopped playing as a musician, and asked him “What went wrong? 8221; Then immediately, laughingly — “What went. This isn’t about what other people believe. There’s a kind ...

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Stop Editing Yourself | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. August 30, 2009 in Creative Blocks. We all know the glorious stereotype: The artist, possessed, obsessed, maybe even driven a little crazy by an internal vision of their work, feverishly working till late in the night on piece after piece, fluidly and wildly creative, the work pouring out like an unstoppable river. The inability to let the work. What’s the cure for this? It is a practice that will begin to counter the criticism that paralyzes, a...

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Creative Blocks and Limits | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. Creative Blocks and Limits. June 19, 2009 in Creative Blocks. 8220;If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.”. 8212; Pablo Picasso. Who likes to be limited? Isn’t being “free” part of the charm and the spell of art? The freedom we see expressed in an art work is one that is always delimited by its scope. It may appear to be a work of unlimited freedom, but it is not. And this is a good thing. I don’t...

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Pattern Recognition | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. April 27, 2009 in Creative Blocks. 8220;When you really intend to do something, and commit yourself to doing it and if you have integrity about it, you are forced to consider your motives and desires.” — Peter Ciccariello. One of the most suprisingly vital, but often little appreciated, tools in this area is simply. The blocks we throw up for ourselves, the particular devices we use to distract ourselves from doing the work, are essentially the ...

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Creative Blocks and Play | An Artist In Brooklyn

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An Artist In Brooklyn. The Ordinary Business of Making Art. Creative Blocks and Play. July 10, 2009 in Creative Blocks. Creative vision contains a playful quality. 8212; John Briggs. One can be serious about the frivolous,. Frivolous about the serious. 8212; Susan Sontag. Particle of play is not a necessary element in the process. I use that idea in my toolkit of techniques to cut through creative blocks. Creative blocks, often couched in the armor of plausible deniability, righteous authority, and a...