As I was thinking about what people might be googling that could cause them to stumble across this e-zine, these are the key questions that really got me thinking:
- How do I define and/or create my art style?
- How do I improve my style?
- How do I transition my style?
- How do I improve my art?
When I googled these ideas, I cam across a wealth of blog posts with standard ideas like practice, practice, practice. There were great blog posts and I will share the best posts in a future article.
But that led me to thinking about why I think inspiration challenges are an important part of our journey to defining and improving our art.
My Story
I started my creative journey in 2007. A quick scan through my year 2008 posts will show you the key points of my journey in glass and experimentation in a number of different jewelry techniques such as stringing, wire-wrapping, and chain maille. My initial style was quite colorful and crazy (and got lots of feedback). My emerging style started settling down.
In 2009 when I was able to focus on my jewelry business, I started creating themes for each monthly newsletter and designing my jewelry to go with the theme. I ended up being very surprised with the result of fencing in my creativity and designing around a theme. In stead of confining and restraining my creativity, I actually focused and thereby stretched, refined, and honed my skills and artistic style. I came out of these themes with a defined artistic style and jewelry collections.
Your turn: what about you? What was your journey to defining your artistic style?
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