Putting myself in the position of the buyer not just for the perception of my own art but also if I was in the position to buy any art which would I buy and WHY?
Rose Alike
Rose Alike
What creating art taught me about life.
The beginning is often fun and exciting. The end result can be satisfying and disappointing. The middle is where the tension lies it's the hard bit.
How do you keep yourself on track? - In 3 bullet points
During the past few months, I have developed myself a little system for keeping myself on track. Before you roll your eyes at another way to make yourself feel bad for not achieving your goals...
It's really not THAT hard. 3 bullet points!
Are you scared of Art?
Are you scared of art? Why? Some questions to think about when thinking about buying an artwork, first thing to remember is.... Don't be scared!
Why would someone buy your/my/any art? I found myself asking this question the other day as I walked around amongst other beautiful artworks. Putting myself in the position of the buyer not just for the perception of my own art but also if I was in the position to buy any art which would I [...]
Why would someone buy your/my/any art? I found myself asking this question the other day as I walked around amongst other beautiful artworks. Putting myself in the position of the buyer not just for the perception of my own art but also if I was in the position to buy any art which would I [...]
Life is a difficult thing, none so much as I have found out in the past few years. As I have progressed through my life I have also progressed through my art and my business. In these areas I am not entirely sure how things are ever going to turn out. I have gone from [...]
I found myself asking this question the other day as I walked around amongst other beautiful artworks.
Putting myself in the position of the buyer not just for the perception of my own art but also if I was in the position to buy any art which would I buy and WHY?
I didn’t quite answer my own question…
What do you you think?
Have you bought art before? If not why ?
If so, why did you choose the art you did? and did you buy an original as opposed to a print ? Why?
Pondering the questions please let me know your thoughts
I was excited to be invited to exhibit this year, I have 4 coloured pencil artworks in the exhibition this is my first time in this exhibition so I am looking forward to visiting all the artworks on opening night and seeing some fabulous art.
“An exhibition of work featuring painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed
media, glassware and jewellery, by prominent
artists from the Central Coast, Sydney,
Newcastle and Wollongong. All works
are for sale and general admission is free.”
The art exhibition is open from 3-5th Saturday and Sunday, Carlton Road, Erina Heights.
Rose Alike Work in Progress – Coloured Pencil by Belinda Lindhardt
It’s past the middle and towards the end in the creative process when I often take the time to pause. It’s tempting to sign it off as finished tick another thing off the list.. but I “know” whether its done yet or not. “Knowing” is not dialogue its a gut feeling I have learnt to trust my gut and know when I am truly done, only then I can be satisfied and move on.
At the moment I am not done I am pausing to absorb what needs to be done further before I take the next step.
Technically I have sprayed with a few coats of workable fixative, this allows me to seal whats there already (the green was smearing everywhere as I was working) as well as allows me to add more layers particularly on areas where there is quite alot of pencil already. It kinds seems to put a bit of grit onto whats there if that makes sense. I find this spraying process also helps later on when I give some final coats of protective & UV varnish to my work for added protection Some artists I know have had problems with wax of the pencils showing through, but I have never had that problem I think the workable fixative at this points prevents this somewhat.
The is an art to pausing, I am learning to love it
Life is a difficult thing, none so much as I have found out in the past few years. As I have progressed through my life I have also progressed through my art and my business.
In these areas I am not entirely sure how things are ever going to turn out. I have gone from step to step sometimes unconsciously and then realised that I have achieved what I was planning to do and other times I haven’t.
The beginning is often fun and exciting.
It’s where you get motivated, feel invigorated and alive! It’s where you plan where you are going to go and take action to get there.
The end result can be satisfying and disappointing. Either you have achieved what you had originally envisaged or you haven’t and your feelings are often based on that result.
The middle is where the tension lies and it’s the hard bit.
In the middle you sometimes get frustrated and want to get to your vision quickly but you know you have to do the hard work to get there. It’s also where decisions can be made based on how you are progressing -Are you on track for your vision?
If you skipped the middle part it wouldn’t be as satisfying when you get to the end and how would you know if it was the correct result if you haven’t been through the process? The middle is important!
If you give up in the middle which is easy to do, you will never get to the end and I ask you this - Where does that then leave you ???
Furthermore, if you haven’t envisaged your desired result in the beginning how do you know when you get to the end ? You will be in a never ending battle of endlessness. YUKKK! its awful .. trust me I have been there!
So, at the moment I am in the MIDDLE, in the middle of multiple things!
I am doing the hard work, my motivation is that I MUST continue I have no other choice.
If I don’t the artwork and *insert XYZ* will never end and there will be no result good or bad. No satisfaction, no scope for learning on the next thing I undertake.
The middle is hard but it is necessary, I think the key is to try to appreciate the middle for what it is and KNOW that through the middle you will come to the end.. your vision will evolve and it WILL become a result…. and then maybe the key is to stop thinking about it and push on!
My Rose is forming This part of the creative process I struggle with. Its the middle. Its great in the beginning the planning, great at the end when you finish but in this middle piece its nothing but hard work especially on a coloured pencil peice this size. I estimate I am at around 40 hours so far and still a way to go.
Its the part that you have to keep pushing yourself forward and keep your “vision” in mind. A bit like life, I am getting better at it
It seems somehow I lost a month somewhere in there, I can’t believe its really August is time speeding up or is it just me?
As I mentioned in my last blog post, during the past month or so I have been locked up in “webdesigner” mode redeveloping the Australian Coloured Pencils Website.
The site redo has been a really interesting process for me. For once in the 14 years I have been building websites I became my own client. Frustrated with the fact that it took longer than had been anticipated, annoyed with the fact that during this time WordPress decided to upgrade its version so it meant all sorts of conflicts and problems with plugins after I had already spent hours getting them working how I wanted. As well as trying to keep my members happy during the upgrade process and them experiencing errors that I wasn’t experiencing. Having issues with the “way” things worked wasnt quite how I really wanted them to work but limited by the functionality and trying to tie mulitple plugins and functions together. Fun fun fun.
During all of this I kept remembering the 80/20 rule. As long as the site was 80% right then that was good enough I could fix the other 20% after. This is VERY hard for me to do as I am a bit of a perfectionist (not in a good way) as it comes to these things.
ARTWORK: As you can see I have started a new artwork as per the above. It’s my biggest coloured pencil work to date – 68cmX44cm, and its being created in preparation for an exhibition I have coming up in September. I hope to be having 4 coloured pencil pieces exhibited. I think it will be interesting to showcase a few various sizes and pieces in a show like this – stay tuned for the details.
I am also videoing this one as I work – those of you who follow me on facebook will have seen the video already. I hope to compile all the video together on completion really interested to see how it turns out.
Here is the video as posted on facebook a little while ago.
So this past month I have been busy, has it really been over a month? Oh yes it has.
Unbelievable. Anywho, I have been very busy this past month with pencils on the brain though I havent been doing any artwork.
Many of you may be aware I have started a while back the Australian Coloured Pencil network website. The site has been through a few changes and discussions regarding its future during the past year, everyone wants an Australian coloured pencil society but logistics of creating and managing one are somewhat restricted given logistics and location of willing members plus due to the fact that we are still a relatively small group of people.
Next best thing was a redevelopment of a website, moving the existing site into more of a paid membership site. I would really love to continue providing the service for free, but I am not in the position to be able to provide this at the moment. So the choice was either redevelop or close the site all together.
So I have been busy building a site which contains: a forum, a member gallery, a directory, a membership system, a blog and other stuff to go along with it.
Anyone thinking of creating a website like this, even myself who is an experienced web designer and developer of over 15years has been surprised about just how long it has taken me to do and I am still not there yet! Tweaks, bugs, downloads updates the time to sort some of these out has been much longer than I would have thought. So I know there are a couple of business people reading this, if you are thinking about this for your business be prepared!! And also be prepared that your web developer would have to charge for their time to sort these out. If I had been charging for my time it would have been a costly exercise or I most definitely would have lost money – grrrr technical issues.
Now, the site has arrived at a workable stage – I have been so pleased to have the support of existing ACPN members who have supported me in the change over and become members of the site its been fantastic!
Head over towww.colouredpencils.com.au. You can visit the blog or signup for a limted time FREE membership. While I iron out all the bugs!
So that’s what I have been up to. I am glad to have a bit of a breather, still working on it but not as frantically as I have been. I am now able to concentrate on preparing for quite a few exhibitions I have coming up in September and October. I have an idea for a new artwork but I am debating on whether to tackle it yet or get some other tasks out of the way first.
I have also had lots of inquiries regarding my workshops so I still have on the cards to offer some of my classes or workshops online. I am thinking it maynot be until the new year however? Or maybe in time for Christmas!!! Now there is an idea!
The end of the year will be here before you know it!
One of our members Richard Klekociuk has just posted this wonderful article on his blog from the latest newsletter of the Art Society of Tasmania including the opening night’s comments of his recent exhibition in Hobart by noted Tasmanian artist, … Continue reading → […]
Belinda Lindhardt is an Australian artist, creating artwork inspired by life surrounding her. Her artwork of a realistic and painterly style using a variety of mediums often specialising in coloured pencil.
Belinda's subjects include portraits, still life's and 'studies' as well as florals.
The Creative Hardt studio is where I create illustrations and artwork for art licensing, commission and sale.
Why would someone buy your art?
