http://soulsongart.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/making-mistakes-in-artworksdrawing-involves-practise-to-succeed/ Art Drawing Printmaking Photography Australian Wildflowers Wildlife Studio Diary Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://soulsongart.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/making-mistakes-in-artworksdrawing-involves-practise-to-succeed/#comment-140 Lyn Weir Wed, 28 May 2008 04:40:44 +0000 http://soulsongart.wordpress.com/?p=436#comment-140 Art journals or sketchbooks are good in that it is harder to rip out pages or discard pages that often have more than one image - one could be ok another not… If we want to learn from mistakes then we need to ask why? and how? If we simply discard without doing this then it is harder to understand and improve. This was a point made by several of my art college tutors - a long time ago... It is just something I have been thinking about recently as I have been sorting through old work that I have kept but not looked at for a very long time… Art journals or sketchbooks are good in that it is harder to rip out pages or discard pages that often have more than one image – one could be ok another not…
If we want to learn from mistakes then we need to ask why? and how? If we simply discard without doing this then it is harder to understand and improve. This was a point made by several of my art college tutors – a long time ago…
It is just something I have been thinking about recently as I have been sorting through old work that I have kept but not looked at for a very long time…

]]> http://soulsongart.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/making-mistakes-in-artworksdrawing-involves-practise-to-succeed/#comment-138 grezakster Wed, 28 May 2008 03:25:42 +0000 http://soulsongart.wordpress.com/?p=436#comment-138 thats actually interesting - to go back to your work and think "why" and "how." i find that most artists, myself included, just want to discard whatever piece of work they absolutely hate so they can pretend it never existed. thats actually interesting – to go back to your work and think “why” and “how.” i find that most artists, myself included, just want to discard whatever piece of work they absolutely hate so they can pretend it never existed.

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