This past Christmas season i was busy making a bunch of little paintings for an upcoming sale. When you're producing paintings, one after the other for a sale like this, sometimes, you lose inspiration and paintings become almost formulaic. And then someone shows you pictures from their childhood and BLAM! you see new color combinations and subject matter that get you motivated all over again!
I put together some photograph/painting side-by-side visuals, so you could see what i mean:
Inspiration usually comes when you least expect it, and usually, for me, it is an unusual color combination, an abstract idea, or some direct visual reference. I never seem to learn the lesson to carry my sketch pad with me wherever i go to jot down ideas when i get them...because i usually forget!
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