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[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 01:24:52 pm Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> Donn wrote:
> > Seriously Steven, from one artist to another:
> > USE A NOTEBOOK and WRITE DOWN the solutions as you go along.
> >
> > You waste a lot of time leaping from one thing the next and you make the
> > same mistakes over and over.
> >
> > Do you ever finish a painting or a sculpture?

Not making excuses, but I usually work non-stop on each project.  20 hour days 
with 8 sleep.  I get up four hours later each day and live on a 28 hour 
schedule, but I don't give my mind a chance to lose it's place.  I worked that 
way for many years, fairly successfully.  Additionally creative activity 
usually doesn't require help from anyone; that kind of defeats the purpose of 
creation.  When making art, no one else has ever done what you are doing and 
since using the tools doesn't require a teacher, just materials to work with, 
it is not an intellectual process.  Like paint, clay, chalk, ground glass.  A 
person learns by doing, not being taught.  I have never had a lesson or class 
in art, but have worked at it for 60 years and am accomplished in most art 
medium.  The only thing I have ever done in art that is universally accepted 
(everyone) is some highly decorated, pierced pottery.  I have not known anyone 
who saw one who did not want one.  That is rare in are, however, usually they 
like or hate your work.  In painting I have one particular type of oil 
painting that I do that everyone seems to like.  Not necessarily own, but 
enjoy viewing.  It is a very naieve, child like style, much like a five year 
old might paint.

Sculpture is hardest because it usually takes more hard physical work to finish 
a work.
> >
> > This computer jazz is the same thing. Keep notes, learn the tricks,
> > figure out a system for yourself that helps you to get ahead.

I am.  You are one of my teachers.
> >
> >
> > \d
>
> Steven has already said that he keeps a notebook of all his fixes. It's
> on his speaker.

Record is not a notebook.  My current record is in the form of emails, many I 
have lost due to re-installation and lost records.  I have mostly solved that 
problem now. 
>
> --
> Treat all stressful situations like a dog does.
> If you can't eat it or play with it,
> just pee on it and walk away

I just remember a way that works well for me.  I bookmarked the archive for 
the list.  It contains the posts by topic.  That should be my solution.  Sorry 
to be such a problem.  Thanks!

Steven