How to make a decision, how to avoid paralysis of overhwelm, when there are a hundred gazillion options, how does that work?
Cos here we are, right, in the 21st Century, and if you’re reading this I’m figuring you’re someplace a little bit like here. A place where art supplies are available in more colours, more media, more super-doopy newly formulated zingyness, more variety than you can shake a stick at.
And even when you’re on a strict self-imposed use-what-you-got-already-before-buying-more-at-the-art-store diet….. there’s no still shortage of choice. Especially not when you’re compelled to repurpose just about anything into art.
Lately I’ve taken to limiting what I can use to the scraps that are on my work table. These tubes of paint I didn’t put away after last time, these nibbles of torn paper. These choices were made by a previous me, and today’s ingenuity is tasked to find a new way to combine them.
Share this:
Mixy's Art Blog 
or you spend all your available “making” time digging through your available materials…(ahem)….
LikeLiked by 1 person
I find self imposed challenges like what you are doing now helps us be more creative. It is also a way for us to use those materials/things that we seldom use or have not explored a lot yet. Still, the siren call of getting new materials is a thing that is very difficult to ignore. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like your approach to materials Eph. It always annoyed me when I would receive a list of ‘required’ (and expensive) art materials for classes and then find we barely used half. When I gave workshops the first day was introducing the visual challenge and then leaving it open to the participants how they might solve it and with what materials.
LikeLike