Embracing the Messy Creative Process

Do you also wrestle sometimes with the messy creative process? I’ve spent years telling myself that if I were a better artist my paintings would develop easier, more quickly, and be beautiful all along the way. Where do we get this? It’s not even close to reality, yet I’ve perpetuated this idea by telling myself it should be easier, I should know where I’m going from the very start, and that every painting should turn out beautifully.

I’ve dedicated myself to the practice of noticing these bogus beliefs and purposely practicing a relaxation into the ‘real’ creative process, which is oftentimes messy, never a straight line, and not supposed to be tidy or predictable. In fact, the job of the artist is to explore and seek out the unpredictable. I’ve had my work become predictable because I had fully explored a concept or process, and found that predictable is actually quite boring.

In this video, I begin normalizing the messiness of the creative process for myself. Come along for the ride! And I hope you enjoy noticing your own thoughts about the creative process that aren’t accurate and don’t serve your development.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
0:29 Products and materials
2:30 Why normalizing the messiness helps us be better artists
5:35 Anxious thoughts that hinder the creative flow and what to do about it
9:36 Observing your points of anxiety; it's not just technique determining painting quality
11:26 Resisting the urge to look for beauty too soon
13:47 Practicing relaxation in the messy creative process
17:04 It's ok to not know where you're going
20:10 Your painting practice can be your teacher
28:18 These are natural, universal problems. That's ok.
31:00 Why creating a lot of work is necessary
35:29 Finishing up

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