Twyla Tharp packet (3/9/10)

Throughout the pages you read there are many warnings about how artists can get into "trouble", creatively, in their work. Think about which of these you can imagine being potential issues for you and/or your classmates in the Senior Studio class. Select three of these issues, and on your blog, describe how you can see them coming up in class. Be specific in your writing! Use references (quotes) to the text and to your own work/process in your writing.

1. feeling obligated-->taking a lot of time on panning a project and working hard on it for weeks but in the end you are not passionate about it and get bored and frustrated. "you only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no the answer is probably no."
   
2. planning --> being so focused on the plan and materials working a certain way. You must be able to not give up on a piece if it is not turning out the exact way you expected.
   
3. wrong materials--> using materials that cannot do what you want. You must pick wisely or you will be disappointing.
   

Tuesday Homework (3/2/10)

Make a list of the types of things you see in most of the studios you look at.

• tables
• windows
  
• open floor space
  
• books
• finished art on walls
• multiple works of unfinished art
  

Why do you think these things show up more than once?
well the books where probably used for inspiration, windows let in the best light, table and floor space is good for spreading out your supplies or working, finished art is good for more inspiration and continuing a theme, and multiple works of art is if the artist get bored with one peace they can move on.

How do artists develop spaces and methods for making their most authentic work as part of a daily artistic practice?
When I work I like to spread out so I can see everything that I am doing. I am sure others are like that too. Sometimes you need different surfaces available to work on because some art is easier to work on on the floor, some on a table, and some on an easel. Other than that you want to got to a place where you enjoy spending time so you can get as much work done as possible. Like a person bedroom they will surround themselves with things they like or inspire them.