This was interesting and I’ll be dipping into these links more! And also you know where I am if you want homework assigned through official work channels 😂
Such a great post, Bryn - I haven't done it full justice yet but I'm looking forward to exploring the links!
The only place I'd ever heard 'campfire notebook' was in the title of your newsletter - that's so interesting!
And I LOVED the start of every school year! I loved school - the lessons part, that is, not so much the people...! But new 'stuff' - the back-to-school stuff - yes yes yes yes yes!
Thank you, Rebecca 😃 I often muse that some of the art you share on here is SciArt from a biology lens, so I’d love to hear what you think about some of them!
Gosh, that's so interesting! Well, this had really struck me in your post:
"There are internal goals: using it as a means to experiment and explore new subjects, to consider how we relate to the world, to connect with others and create community, and to cope with difficult experiences."
Yes to all of the above - but in particular 'to consider how we relate to the world' really resonates. Until relatively recently, when I used to make art - well, at school, when we were MADE to do certain projects, and at home on my own, setting myself impossible tasks of drawing things I just couldn't seem to draw - I would hate it, finding it a source of immense frustration.
Then when I started EXPLORING with art - and later, with writing - I discovered something that I hadn't come across before: that the PROCESS means so much more to me than my preconceived ideas about how the end result might look! Suddenly I was finding that my pictures and words were simply the result of 'considering how I relate to the world'. That was an absolutely massive learning point for me!
That’s a great point - start exploring. I should remind myself of that when I feel overwhelmed with “musts” and “shoulds”. I also think it relates to some advice I’ve seen in creating art well (and I think Nishant Jain mentioned it in his recent workshop on YouTube) - explore what you see. That is, stop drawing or painting what you KNOW, and draw/paint/etc. what you SEE. (It makes the practice of art more mindful, too.)
This was interesting and I’ll be dipping into these links more! And also you know where I am if you want homework assigned through official work channels 😂
Thank you! And absolutely... I know where you’re hiding 😂
Such a great post, Bryn - I haven't done it full justice yet but I'm looking forward to exploring the links!
The only place I'd ever heard 'campfire notebook' was in the title of your newsletter - that's so interesting!
And I LOVED the start of every school year! I loved school - the lessons part, that is, not so much the people...! But new 'stuff' - the back-to-school stuff - yes yes yes yes yes!
Thank you, Rebecca 😃 I often muse that some of the art you share on here is SciArt from a biology lens, so I’d love to hear what you think about some of them!
Gosh, that's so interesting! Well, this had really struck me in your post:
"There are internal goals: using it as a means to experiment and explore new subjects, to consider how we relate to the world, to connect with others and create community, and to cope with difficult experiences."
Yes to all of the above - but in particular 'to consider how we relate to the world' really resonates. Until relatively recently, when I used to make art - well, at school, when we were MADE to do certain projects, and at home on my own, setting myself impossible tasks of drawing things I just couldn't seem to draw - I would hate it, finding it a source of immense frustration.
Then when I started EXPLORING with art - and later, with writing - I discovered something that I hadn't come across before: that the PROCESS means so much more to me than my preconceived ideas about how the end result might look! Suddenly I was finding that my pictures and words were simply the result of 'considering how I relate to the world'. That was an absolutely massive learning point for me!
That’s a great point - start exploring. I should remind myself of that when I feel overwhelmed with “musts” and “shoulds”. I also think it relates to some advice I’ve seen in creating art well (and I think Nishant Jain mentioned it in his recent workshop on YouTube) - explore what you see. That is, stop drawing or painting what you KNOW, and draw/paint/etc. what you SEE. (It makes the practice of art more mindful, too.)
Those 'musts' and 'shoulds' need to take a hike, don't they? I have plenty to send up on a one-way trip somewhere...! 🤣
That's a great point about drawing what you see - I'm a fine one for drawing what I 'think' I see, and that *always* leads to disappointment! 😁