You may end up with some specific things like “work bigger” or you may find more emotional ties – like a frustration that you never find enough time for your creative work or you are stuck within a particular style. Julia Cameron advises that you don’t go back and re-read them, but for this exercise I would go back with a highlighter and mark what seems relevant. ONE: like morning pages as recommended in The Artists Way simply write longhand whatever comes to mind about your work until you cover three pages. There are a couple of ways you can approach this: What I’m looking for is my own internal guidance and writing helps with that. If I go straight to images I end up choosing from what’s available so the choices are coming from outside me. If you like this idea what’s the best way to go about this? There are a few tips which may help you the first time if this feels unfamiliar and you’re not sure where to begin… Here is my previous board – you can see I have pieces of fabric, photos of road markings, images from magazines and some older pieces of work which I wanted to refer to. If you feel stuck, you have a tangible object to come back to to reignite your ideas, perhaps see what’s missing, or where you have become stuck in familiar territory rather than following your new year excitement. A mood board is a big visual, the overall approach and feel. Yes, we can do this in sketchbooks too, but they get left in bags, or the cover is closed and they go back on the shelf. And if you keep following what interests and excites you, then you won’t get bored. It acts a reminder – in a big visual, always visible way – of what interests you. In art the possibilities are endless, so having a gentle way to keep you aligned can be a big help. It may not contain details, but it gives you an overall feeling and a visual way to play with what you would like to create… things which will make you feel proud and excited to create! Why does this help? In this sense a mood board gives you a way to guide the choices you make. You’re probably familiar with interior design mood boards – designers use them to bring together ideas for a new room scheme – they can include swatches, visuals and samples. It’s good to refresh this and I had become so used to looking at it, that my eyes passed over it and it was no longer serving its purpose. One of the things which helps me in the studio is a ‘mood board’ for my art.
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