tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post6580756429782098235..comments2024-03-08T00:12:34.350-08:00Comments on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon: Critical Evaluations – no more passive gazing!Elizabeth Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-47110204221027409982009-01-27T19:36:00.000-08:002009-01-27T19:36:00.000-08:00I appreciate your writing everything out for us to...I appreciate your writing everything out for us to file away. For some reason, I need to hear it again and again, stated in slightly different ways. One of my goals is to be more intentional in my work. This is another step in that mode. Will you please go through this procedure with one of your pieces, maybe What Pretty Smoke? That'd be a great help. Thanks for writing!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730298448632087144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-48609215768119631532009-01-27T17:26:00.000-08:002009-01-27T17:26:00.000-08:00This is really very interesting! For some unknowin...This is really very interesting! For some unknowing me reasons I used to do all this work by evaluation of a peace, relying mostly on feelings and intuition. Like: hmm… this is not working, but if I change color here -it is much better, closer to what I want. But the whole idea remains more or less unconscious almost till the end. I don’t think that it is passive gazing. I would say just opposite: it is very exhausting. The bad side of this approach is that at the end of work, when I am tired and I don’t know what I feel, everything looks unsatisfying. Only fresh look next day can help. <BR/>And I did not question my approach before... I believed that difference in physiological types (Myers-Briggs) could explain individual approach to this subject. For example, I am ENFP, my “tools” are intuition plus introverted feelings, while for NT type -thinking is the fist and strongest “tool”. <BR/>On the other hand, I would not have problems to apply logical analysis to article, novel or movie. So, I could be wrong, it happened before… May be this is the road to personal improvement- to use it all? I would definitely try to use your suggestions and apply more conscious THINKING to my work as well to work of others. So, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. And your “Oh, what pretty smoke!" makes me just happy!Marinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695654924543318442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-20523653670168991652009-01-27T15:09:00.000-08:002009-01-27T15:09:00.000-08:00Thank you for this article. Objectively evaluatin...Thank you for this article. Objectively evaluating how a piece of artwork is progressing is so important to keeping it on track. <BR/>Thanks, again!Rebecca Lilly Segurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626523555127808350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-34394610400316463862009-01-27T08:24:00.000-08:002009-01-27T08:24:00.000-08:00I really enjoyed your post about achieving the goa...I really enjoyed your post about achieving the goals we set and being our own best critics.<BR/>As I read that I realized that was exactly what I did as I created the 20 pieces in the "colors of My Life" series that are being shown for the first time in my solo show that opened Sunday. (some photos on my blog but I'm taking my time putting all the quilts on the blog)<BR/>KKay Koeper Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03179892338042007284noreply@blogger.com