Making a Painting: Part 3 - Nicholas Wilton - Ep 113
Art2Life
Nicholas Wilton
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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https://Art2Life.com - In what may be the final installment of making a painting for my daughter’s birthday, we’re going to be talking about finishing. Or at least, what the beginning stages of that process look like. Join me as I talk about the delicate balance of refinement and letting go, knowing when we need perspective, and holding an idea for a painting while remaining authentic to ourselves and the process.
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Crafting the delicate balance between refinement and letting go when finishing [1:56]
Holding an idea for a painting while staying authentic [12:59]
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| 0:00.0 | If you're doing paintings for the headquarters of Nike and you want the work to feel a certain way, |
| 0:06.0 | you know, instead of thinking of just do it slogan, you can think about what does that brand feel like to me? |
| 0:12.0 | So I think of what is this person in my life, my daughter feel like to me, what is the greatest part of her? |
| 0:19.0 | And it's abstract, but it releases me from literalness. |
| 0:27.9 | So everyone, welcome back to the Arts of Life podcast. This is the third installment of making a |
| 0:34.2 | painting. This could be the last one. We'll see. So it's all about finishing, but it's not, |
| 0:40.7 | it's far from finished. So I'm coming in here and I've worked on this a bit and this will probably |
| 0:48.1 | be a longer session. You won't realize it, but I'm going to, if you watch the video of this |
| 0:53.8 | podcast, there'll probably be sped up sessions when I'm going to, if you watch the video of this podcast, they'll probably be sped |
| 0:56.1 | up sessions when I'm working on this, because it will take me more than 40 minutes to finish this. |
| 1:02.3 | So I thought what I would do is share with you a little bit about at this stage what I'm doing, |
| 1:09.6 | and then as I go further along, I'll share with you |
| 1:12.6 | as I start to finish things, |
| 1:14.6 | because I think that's a really interesting, |
| 1:16.6 | it's a big question for people. |
| 1:17.6 | How do you finish something? |
| 1:18.6 | How do you know when it's finished all that? Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the Creatively Curious. |
| 1:36.3 | My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, but the art in your life. |
| 1:43.5 | Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight, |
| 1:46.8 | the wild frontiers of art making, |
| 1:48.8 | and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go. |
| 1:56.6 | So right now, I've been away from this picture, |
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