My doodle for today was an answer to two amazing pieces. Mine, however, feels a bit underdone in comparrison.
Here is the "conversation" with mine added:
The frustrating bit is basically what you see of my piece is the 'skeleton' of my work.
I was laying down form and some colours and shadow and then wanted to go in and soften and build up the layers to match the depth of the other two pieces. However, today for some reason, when I would go to use the drawing tool it just turned into the dropper and kept copying the colour on the screen rather then letting me draw and paint again. Thus I literally could no longer draw or paint, only copy the colour of whatever I hovered over.
The irony is not missed on me that I was depicting a bot viewing a human world but with some malfunctions AS my own tools on dada were also malfunctioning.
I also have an interesting affect on technology so this might simply be my odd juju affecting the drawing tools who can say?
In a way, however, this is a lesson I have learned over the past two years: Calling a piece done even when you aren't 100% satisfied with it is an important moment for an artist to reach, I think.
Having the ability to love and accept things are important to life in general so therefore, in art it can also be a boon.
This piece can simply be the rough sketchy representation of what I was aiming for and it can teach me to be happy with pure colour and more flat forms.
Lessons are everywhere to be found, if we are simply open to them.
Now, back to the 'conversation' The other two amazing artists in this dada.nyc conversation are from left to right, Boris Toledo Doorm and Cromomaniaco So do check out their works on dada.nyc.
Have a lovely day and stop by for a 'conversation' on dada.nyc
Addendum: I just heard from dada.nyc that there is a problem they are working on, so it wasn't just me. It was odd as it just suddenly wouldn't let me draw any longer. It was as if my computer was saying, "NO, that's enough for today. This is done" :)
If you like my work please upvote and feel free to resteem and by all means leave comments.
Check out my other posts:
- A #sublimesunday enjoying my Terrace Project
- New Singularity Sketch : Idea of Advertising for my World
- My Singularity Series defined: A Steemit inspired series of ongoing paintings
- A peek at my WIP of latest Singularity Painting
- A singularity sketch inspired by my trip to a garden
given the subject of the work, who knows this unfinished skeletal version of your work may work even better ? And if not, the good thing is that with this kind of collaborative work someone else can take it to the next level if it needs it.
Having said that, I understand your point about acceptance and knowing when "done" is "done" and that this isn't always when we think it is. I've kept reworking pieces to ruin before and that's just as bad as leaving underworked. It takes a whole lot of experience to know when to stop and it's one of the indicators of mastery I'd say but no matter how far a creative has come, we all have to wrestle with this all of our creative careers!
Nice post as always @donnadavisart!
Well, as I was doodling away and the controls suddenly stopped working my first response was frustration. I kept trying to get it to draw a line or make a stroke so I could build it up.
Then, my next thought, "I've put this time into already this morning I could have been working on my Singularity Poster project". But then, I take a moment, look out the window and breathe. The birds were singing. I could hear the waves. And I thought (no surprise) of my garden. My next response was, "Happy Accident".
So many times in art school did any number of teachers use the term "Happy Accident" and often it was true and made you smile and gave you pause. This too happened to me. "Well," Says I, "Nothing you can do, but post it as is and call it your morning art done and go out into nature."
And I had to think, well, that was a sort of gift. I could make my little quick post about the work and out I could go, set free for the afternoon to just putter and faff about (I'm so good at acting like a 90 year old lady since I was 20).
I really do think that lessons on Life and relishing the moment, even what occurs first as mistake or upset, into opportunity really is a good lesson. I think of the Simpsons reference when Lisa says, 'The Japanese have a word that means both crisis and opportunity" and Homer replies "Crisitunity". We often use that phrase round her: Crisitunity
Thank you @natureofbeing.
Thanks for your art on dada.nycYou are a wise woman @donnadavisart! Thanks for sharing this experience. I believe the problem has since been corrected. Even though it is our fault (we recently made some necessary server changes and a whole lot of bugs happened), we like that there is something to be learned from artistic frustration. You added a layer that is definitely meaningful. Your drawing truly gives the conversation an added dimension and it is totally in tune with the eerie, metaphysical vibe of the piece. We believe in happy accidents. Art is not meant to be perfection. Thanks for making this into an opportunity for exploration and not a furious rant! It makes a huge difference to us.
No worries, @grandenchilada and dada.nyc, you have a great site and amazing service, I was just frustrated at the situation not at the site in general. I honestly love what you are doing and wish I had more time to add my 'conversations' to it, and hopefully will make more time in the future.
In many ways your site has encouraged me to see the possibility for more new virtual art worlds and I hope to be a part of the changing and emerging world that is appearing for artists and art lovers in our vastly changing world and art scene.
I can understand it must not be easy to run such a site and I'm rather impressed with you have done thus far. I also have an odd affect on tech (odd since I do much of my artwork digitally now) and often have things happen to computers and programmes that are just unexplainable, so I am used to odd things going wrong when working digitally.
And, as I said, lessons are everywhere to be found. Happy Accidents.
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Love when those ghosts in the machine start acting up :)
Great job my friend