Comments on: Work Differently to Facilitate a Breakthrough

By: Alyson Stanfield

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:20:04 +0000

In reply to Kelly Maloney.

Hi, Kelly. Thanks for finding this older post and reading.

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By: Kelly Maloney

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:34:04 +0000

It’s a refreshing approach to stimulating creativity and innovation in both art and business practices

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By: Susan Purney Mark

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:34:59 +0000

As a textile art of 40+ Years I have started changing my medium and found a new world of possibilities opening up. Perhaps I could continue on textiles with my explorations but moving onto paper and wood substrate has given me a dramatic shift in options and ways of working that surprise me at every turn!

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By: jennifer ressmann

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 04:59:41 +0000

Makes me think about my husband and exercise – he expects a break through in a week – in shape, the work out is easier, etc. Poor guy – it’ll probably be 6 months of daily work to get there. (Is that long?)

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By: jennifer ressmann

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 04:55:29 +0000

In reply to Stephen Price.

That’s so cool – I love when that happens!

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By: Lynne Hull

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:04:06 +0000

Many years ago I was making ceramic objects about life in Wyoming, where I lived, and about the environment and my worries for the survival of wildlife. My most successful pieces sales-wise where large ceramic “cowboy boots” designed “for” the crazy people who were coming to the state for the previous energy boom. Unfortunately there was little market for them in Wyo, but they were selling well in Santa Fe and galleries in the east. BUT, they broke in shipping, and even shippers agreed there was no way to ship them for the price they sold for.
Totally discouraged, I went for a walk out on the prairie, and thought despondently “I might as well be making art for wildlife, instead of about them”

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By: Stephen Price

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:36:44 +0000

I was painting a mural on an eggshell base coat and I sanded it to make highlights after it had been airbrushed. I was surprised to find the exact stone texture I wanted came up because of the raised eggshell bumps. It became the one of the ways I do building stone now.

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By: Larissa Uredi

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 15:50:11 +0000

I am going to call this stage a “pre-breakthrough” breakthrough….say that five times fast? In my work-life I spend a lot of time helping people clarify the steps to get their business off the ground, figure out the budgeting and the tactical steps that need to be taken and then come up with a game plan. My job is very “tactics” oriented and I sometimes struggle with the bigger picture grand strategy stuff. To do all this, I have to be objective about their business. Something I have not been able to be with my own work. Recently, however, as I’ve been working with another artist on a business venture, I’m beginning to see my own work and business in a new light. One that feels more objective and less mired. I catch myself trying to almost talk myself out of it from time to time but it’s getting easier to go with the flow and start to look at my company and my work as a serious business that has a future. I even wrote my first mission statement for my own business and I didn’t immediately discount it.

Sorry to ramble but it’s an exciting thing to be able to think of my company and myself in a professional way for once.

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By: Kathleen Piercefield

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 18:47:43 +0000

I’ve noticed that when I’ve had what I would consider “breakthroughs,” two factors have invariably been present:

1. I have been spending lots of hours in the studio doing my work.
2. I’ve stepped back a little from the intense effort of achieving a particular goal and am allowing myself some time to play, improvise, experiment, think outside the box, etc.

The times when I’m not striving for a “masterpiece” but simply striving…seem to be the ones that result in those wonderful, lightbulb-going-off-in-the-brain moments.

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By: mandy

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:08:28 +0000

I would love to put a link to my latest breakthrough on here now – but i feel like it would be spamming. so i will just explain it.

i have been learning how to make websites so eventually i can use this technology as a new medium to make art.

In order to become a master of something it apparently takes 10 000 hours of focussed attention – So I am doing 10 000 hours of website making in the form of 1 website a month about my art, sent out as an email newsletter (its a full time job)-

So its a business, and these websites are structured and serve their purpose as vehicles to market my art. they are not ‘works of art’ , but each month i learn a little more about how to use the scripting languages to do what i want

This month i have created my first attempt at a work of art (something that just exists to be beautiful, and not to make money from or serve a purpose). I have turned my art into animations for my favorite poem, with each line on a separate page with a different animation so you click through to read ….

It may not be perfect, but i feel it is indeed a breakthrough on my long term goal –
I’m excited

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