Starter Or Finisher?

Finisher

Yes. I start and finish plenty, I also have many that are started but never finished. Then there are those that are started, finished and rejected.

Starter lol

i'm not sure how to answer it... i make it, complete it, start another. i can't start a number of them, have the idea, complete the thought move on. i think in total i abandoned 6 things, when i knew there was no way to finish it. then moved on.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Abbie -
Lol same i cant seem to not have multiple things going at once ☺

You need to come see my studio, Brynn.... Half finished pairings everywhere and no room to actually paint lol

Both, first I start then finish. I produce about 3-4 paintings per week.

Mike-
I think you awnsered it

LOL thats funny thats how my room looks

I dont think people are understanding the question i can try to help though. You are a starter if you mostly start things and then move on you are a finisher if you mostly finish the things you start. The key word is mostly

As far as art, a Finisher. I make digital art so I can discard without having evidence of "starts" mocking me from corners of the room :) I do have other non-art projects that need finishing though! They mock me from every room.

Well i take lots of photos which i never process.

Well steven i belive that meens you are leaning twards a starter

For me making art is like cooking, first I have an idea what I wanted to create then I gather my ingredients and cook, some might take days, weeks or months but never walk away from a half- cooked dish.

I always finish what I start.
Getting started is the hard part.

Alfred-
Lol i have so many half cooked dishes they are spoiling

I've started, so I'll finish; one day.

Michel
✈ Blogging on Fine Art America.

Have about four works going at any one time, always finish them.

Finisher

I've read that Leonardo da Vinci took many years to complete some of his work. I find that sometimes it's good to get away from a piece for a while and get your mind on something else. When you come back to it you may find a new perspective, as if you were previously working with "blinders" on. Of course, when one gets a new idea or golden opportunity, one must pursue it even if you're presently working on something else. You can always come back to what you're "finishing" but if you don't pursue opportunities as they arrive, they will pass you by without returning. New ones may arrive but the ones that have passed, are gone forever.

The same thing happens in my photography. I will usually upload a days worth of shooting into a folder on the computer. I will try and select the the best of the batch for processing first. I cannot process all of them in one day and in the meantime I've shot more photos and uploaded them into another folder. After a while, I have many folders with images needing to be processed. During the good weather months, you have more opportunities for shooting. In the cold months, I find myself inside more and processing images that I've uploaded previously.

Overall, I think the best work will eventually be finished while the lesser works may or may not be completed. I can't really say this is a bad thing, but more of a natural filtering process which hopefully puts my BEST work forward.

"I've read that Leonardo da Vinci took many years to complete some of his work. I find that sometimes it's good to get away from a piece for a while and get your mind on something else. When you come back to it you may find a new perspective, as if you were previously working with "blinders" on"

I have one piece that took a year and a half. I'd pull it out of the reject pile work on it for an hour or two, get frustrated, throw it back into the reject pile. I repeated that process at least six times before I brought it to an acceptable conclusion. Every now and then I browse my reject pile just in case I can see some potential in a painting I couldn't see before, I've resurrected a few that way.

I definitely know what you meen by "blinders"

Hiya Brynn,

I have.always been a multi-tasker. When you make a living with your art you have to be an artist who wears many hats. I could go to work, put the finishing touches on a New York Yankees Yearbook, then work on a new package for the Dukes Of Hazard racing car set, then work on a Star Trek toy package illustration, then pick up on an ad for Prudential and finish my day working on a painting for some book cover. As a working artist you get used to schedules like that. Now that I'm retired I try to keep my workload to only a few things at a time. Right now I am designing and printing my 2015 Christmas and Hanukkah cards and finishing a painting of my grandchildren for their bedroom.

With photography, I think finishing is built in to the "click". Then there's the digital work I do which is "play", & everything is put off for that. And art is play and thought and doing and how can one not finish something somehow? How can one do anything but finish? Then share and get smiles from others at what's been finished. All for the delight...

Well, sometimes the longer we work on something the more bored we get. It's never that we haven't finished it. It's just set aside until we get back to it. Sometimes something else comes along that we get more excited about and we switch up for a while.

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

Leonardo da Vinci

I do both...sometimes I will work exclusively on one thing until it is finished or I might get an idea for something in the middle of a piece and start another. I probably have as much started as finished. Then there is the random piece I thought was finished and then decide it wasn't.

I go a far as I can on any single piece then stop. I'm not sure I can call it finished. Hopefully I stop soon enough before it becomes overworked. If I were to take up something I made years ago I'd be better off starting over because my work has changed over time and I have different issues I am concentrating on now than what I was attempting back then.

Finishing is probably a fantasy. Each piece is a step along the way with no end in sight. I stop but find it hard to say anything is finished. That indicates there is nothing more to do. For me there will always be something more.

I build all of my sculptures so they can morph. I am essentially never done.

Brynn... you are so adorable, inside and out!

I start and finish it is rare for me to start more than one at a time, however i typically finish 1-3 per day when i get going! Do 4-7 paintings a week.

Diana-
That is so sweet of you to say 😊

Relying on scavenged matter as the major element in my saleable art, I MUST start way ahead of the completion date for any given piece
And have many,many going on at the same time
And for logistical reasons only completed just before the scheduled presentation for sale.

And then there are the other projects that I'm involved in
Projects that require the participation of others
They go on and on ,never coming to fruition.
("FERAL COOTS-The Saga of Modern Feralgenaria" as an example)

Finisher.