In a message dated 9/2/08 12:10:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> William (and others, too): > > Do your skills and talents for analysis, critical thinking, and verbal > construction affect the way you paint and make pictures? Do the non- > pictorial interests interfere with painting? add to it? have no > effect? go quiet and never intrude? > Non pictorial interests add to drawing. > > If your analytical and verbal abilities are active and alert, so to > speak, how do they engage the painting part of your focus? > The analytical abilities are fully engaged, the verbal abilities are not. > How much of > your analytical awareness is specific to painting (paying attention to > edges, texture, pictorial elements, etc.)and how much to peripheral > matters (associations to other pictures and aritsts, e.g.) > Almost all of it,edges in particular, quality of texture, and to references to other pictures and artists. > and to > entirely unrelated stuff (reaction from your gallery, news from New > Orleans, what's up with the Republicans, the funny noise in the car)? > I run the radio-NPR,because their English is better-and they deal with the unrelated stuff. I don't answer questions well when I'm properly drawing and I often have no idea what NPR just said. > > I ask because I'm in the studio, brush in hand, trying not to think of > other things, and I can't -- as evidenced by the topic of this email. > If unrelated stuff really gets in the way I go and deal with it but usually it stays within the time allotted for it. Some of the process of drawing is really dull- inches and inches of a particular tone for example,necessary for the whole and tedious in part-and that's where I can get distracted. It is also where the radio comes in handy since I never know what it will say next and I never have to reply. KAte Sullivan > > Danke. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ************** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)
