Artists across all mediums explore working in a serial to refine a technique, explore a concept or expand on a design principle. The exploration may focus on a particular utilize of color or line, such as complementary colors or intersecting curves. Or create a number of pieces with targeted content, such as leaves or doorways. Mayhap focus on a location, such as the beach or an old European city. Or express artistic intent using specific techniques, such every bit fusing, embroidery or painting.
Nosotros asked some of our spotlight makers virtually their experiences working in a serial, and their responses are as varied as their artistic personas.
Frieda Anderson
As an creative person, how do you define a series?
Something that is similar in subject or technique, exploring ideas that relate somehow.
Do you lot work in series? Why?
I do piece of work in serial because one idea e'er leads to another. Usually while you are working on a new project design ideas brainstorm to present themselves and I am always thinking – well next time I'll practise this, try a different colour, arrangement, size, etc…
How does that inform your work?
It makes it more interesting and keeps it fresh and hopefully innovative.
How do you decide on a discipline for a series?
I go on a sketch/thought book and use it to become back and look at ideas, but by and large ideas come up to me while working or walking and I want to pursue that selection that has presented itself to me.
Prairie Grass
Practise you plan every item of your series pieces, or do they take on creative lives of their own? Is there a set of questions you ask yourself to help plan your work?
Sometimes, just mostly I work in a flow as the ideas present themselves I pursue them. Usually I volition make a piece and and then make it again in a unlike way.
Exercise you piece of work on more than one series simultaneously?
Yep of class, I always have multiple projects in the works. Currently I take ii different series going.
Is it hard to stay on track? How do y'all keep yourself focused?
I besides have a business organisation likewise making art, related to my art. And so I travel and teach and have a line of patterns and website that has items for sale, and I am always working on keeping upwardly to appointment on my website and my teaching products. I keep an ongoing list and and a agenda with items on it. My pattern wall and studio walls keep current projects always in my view and thoughts. I don't frequently work on a deadline, but I certainly have one in my head. I call up of it as a steady walk, always moving ahead. Sometimes "work" gets in the way and projects sit for awhile, but I always get back to them.
How do yous know when a series is consummate – or is it always?
When it no longer holds my interest.
Practice you e'er revisit a series?
Sometimes, but usually I accept moved on to the next thought that has caught my attending. If I am FORCED to revisit some series my heart is usually not in it.
When you piece of work on a series, what practise you larn nigh yourself as an artist?
That mistakes happen and they must be embraced, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad, but hopefully you will recollect the mistake and utilize information technology in an improved fashion, or non make information technology once again.
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What advice exercise you have for an artist who is just commencement to explore serial work?
Keep a sketch/notebook, be brave and continue to work. Jump in don't wait for inspiration, inspiration comes while y'all work. Keep to work, work, work. Learning the skills and techniques is actually a pretty pocket-sized role of making art. Learning how to tap into your inventiveness – and facing your fears about doing that – is the most of import part.
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong". Joseph Chilton Pearce
"A human being who makes no mistakes does non usually make anything." Edward John Phelp
And my favorite quote "If yous like information technology exercise it again, if you don't like information technology do it once more. Simply keep doing it." Bruce Mau
Tesi Vaara
As an creative person, how do you define a serial?
Working in a series allows an artist to explore and expand on a specific idea, theme or technique.
Do you work in serial? Why?
I have three different series going right now. One piece doesn't seem to capture all I want to say so I keep creating new pieces as I farther explore my themes.
How practice you make up one's mind on a subject area for a series?
My first series is called "Journeys" and was the offset series where I began using my fused tile method. I also wanted to experiment with incorporating photos of my family and friends into the pieces and create a relate of my life.
Journeying Serial – Retentiveness Lane 2011 (c) Tesi Vaara
Journey Series – Retentivity Lane detail 2011 (c) Tesi Vaara
Journeys serial – Ebey Slough 2012 (c) Tesi Vaara
My 2nd series is chosen "The Chosen One" and focuses on my recovery every bit a survivor of childhood sexual corruption.
My third series is called "Full Moon" and will be an opportunity for me to explore a diversity of surface blueprint techniques. The idea for this series began subsequently we had two Blue Moons in Jan of 2018. A full moon on a clear nighttime is a sight to behold. I didn't realize how many unlike names the total moons have and some of the history behind those names is fascinating to me.
Full Moon Series – Harvest Moon 2017 (c) Tesi VaaraHunter's Moon, Full Moon Series, (c) 2017, Tesi Vaara
Do you program every detail of your series pieces, or practise they take on creative lives of their own? Is there a prepare of questions y'all inquire yourself to help programme your work?
For the Journeys serial, I based my first piece off a landscape photograph I had taken of a pathway through a desert garden. I decided to split up the photos of my life that I wanted to comprise into the quilts upwardly into timelines. The showtime is my life from birth through my teen years. And so the second would be based on my married life from my late 20's to my late 50'southward. (The third will exist based on my "golden years" which I'g still living.) The plan to incorporate photos into the pieces worked well for the first quilt, became less in the second piece and will probably be nil in the last piece.
For the Chosen One serial, I decided I wanted to explore the shattering of innocence; shame; boundaries; and recovery. Every bit I read and explore and journal about these subjects, the details of the slice become clearer to me. Then for this series, I had a prepare of questions. What do I want to say almost my recovery? What do I want other people to feel when they meet my piece? Will my piece help others speak about their experiences? Will my piece create conversations that volition assistance others recover?
The Chosen One series – Overcoming Shame 2017 (c) Tesi VaaraThe Called Ane series – Shattered Innocence 2016 (c) Tesi Vaara
For the Full Moon series, each slice volition be planned, but I'one thousand sure I will deviate from the plan each time as they accept on a life of their own. I am currently working on my Blue Moon piece.
Practice you lot work on more than one serial simultaneously?
Simply in my head or in my sketchbook. I don't have space to lay out more than one piece at a fourth dimension to work on. Also, I'm in two completely different head spaces when I work on either the Total Moon or The Chosen 1 series.
Is information technology difficult to stay on track? How do you lot go along yourself focused?
It's been difficult to stay on track while working on the Full Moon series. I have quite a few surface design techniques that I want to endeavour out and I find myself wanting to experiment with more than 1 technique at a fourth dimension. And I am learning to accept that some of my ideas aren't working out the way I first envisioned them. So I need to learn from those mistakes and move on and non beat out myself upwards about declining.
How practise you know when a series is complete – or is information technology e'er?
I call up some series could go on indefinitely. There are an infinite number of ideas and techniques out there to work on and explore.
Hopefully one 24-hour interval I'll exist done with The Called Ane series. I started this series prior to the #MeToo movement and I now realize there are some other issues I demand to piece of work through.
When you work on a series, what do you learn about yourself every bit an artist?
The Chosen One series has really helped me recover from the furnishings of being molested as a child. I retrieve it is very powerful to be able to heal through my fine art and to possibly aid others to heal because it generates discussion. Once I started sharing my story I was free from the fear I take lived with all my life. That freedom is allowing my creativity to bloom.
The Full Moon series will stretch my skills every bit I experiment with new surface design techniques.
What advice do you have for an artist who is just beginning to explore series piece of work?
Get for it! Have no fright! You tin can exercise this!
Dorothy McGuinness
As an artist, how do yous ascertain a series?
For me, a series is a set of pieces that explore a technique, a pattern, or a process that I'm interested in. I'thou non a conceptual artist, I am process driven in my work.
Do y'all work in series? Why?
I do oftentimes work in series, fifty-fifty if unconsciously. I work in serial to run across where I can drive an idea to see its design possibilities.
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How does that inform your work?
Information technology oftentimes sends me down some tangent that is unexpected in terms of new creative opportunities.
How exercise y'all decide on a subject for a series?
Nearly series for me only kind of evolve. I may try something new and similar how it looks or meet potential in the thought and then I may keep to explore the process in subsequent pieces. That may mean the next piece I weave or maybe it will be several months or even years before I become back to it.
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Do you piece of work on more than one series simultaneously?
I think quite a bit of my work is office of i series or another. I'g always pushing the technical or design ideas in my work.
How practise you know when a series is complete – or is it ever? Exercise you ever revisit a series?
I'm non sure for me if a serial is ever really complete – I can option up and explore an thought and add to a serial anytime.
Patricia Belyea
Serious Virtually Working In A Series
Every bit a creative quilter, working in a serial allows me to dive deep, explore, and discover ideas that build on earlier piece of work.
In the spring of 2014 I began a serial of quilts that morphed in my book, East-Meets-W Quilts (published 2017, Abrams NYC). I made the 17 quilts in the book following a manifesto of 5 rules—with the fifth rule being "Break any rule that you desire." This ready of directives gave me both constraints and liberty to play with unlike ideas—which resulted in a series of quilts that are all related to 1 some other.
More than recently, I began a new series—Big Grids with Inserted Curves. I have produced xi quilt tops and so far and am planning to complete 21 quilts using this theme.
Discover how the first quilt top has the Inserted Curves all landing on the seam lines? Equally I connected, I ventured off the seam lines with the Inserted Curves. Then, noticing that I was putting the Inserted Curves front and center, I worked to create more disproportion in my compositions.
The ideas for each new quilt top leapfrogged the concluding one. I sought to challenge myself as I delved into new directions. Although I am past the halfway betoken for this series, I take no idea what Quilt 21 will look similar. I'll know in one case I take completed 20 compositions in the series!
Working in a series suits me. I can't complain of suffering from a Creative Cake as I am continually pondering what to do next with my ideas.
After I consummate all the Big Grids with Inserted Curves quilts, I plan to make quilts with words on them. How I'll do that is yet to be known. That volition be part of the fun of working on my next series.
Visit Patricia's website, okanarts.com and read her blog post almost working in a series.
Angela Grasse
Do y'all piece of work in series?
There was a time when working in a serial had no appeal to me. I felt I had too many ideas to just concentrate on 1 thing. But considering I accept fallen down the rabbit hole of the mandala/kaleidoscope, that is no longer the case.
Why?
The circle shape is endless. It fascinates me that each piece I create can exist based on a circle and yet be completely unique.
How does that inform your work?
This circle love has spilled over into my photography. I have developed a style to create kaleidoscopic images without the assist of estimator manipulation. I recently purchased a large format printer that volition print on fabric. These photos volition soon be showing upward in this series.
Before this twelvemonth I created a mandala on a coffee filter every morn for a piddling over a calendar month. Using unproblematic supplies these mandalas got my creative juices flowing quickly. These are at present waiting to be stitched.
Practice y'all plan every detail of your series pieces, or practise they have on creative lives of their own?
I practice non plan every detail of my series. It has a life of its own. Each new piece is started intuitively. There are times when I want to take a mixed media approach and know I need to include a paper cut (kirigami). Other times a well-worn doily speaks to me and becomes the starting point. Years ago I joined the Bead Journal Projection online. Almost oft I employ the circle as a starting point for these beaded pieces.
How do y'all know when a serial is complete – or is it e'er?
I experience I have a good grasp on when to terminate working on an private piece simply I do not see an end to my working in this series. That may happen somewhen only non yet. I hope to create enough pieces to have a solo bear witness with mandalas/kaleidoscope. What is enough?
Read more than near working in a series with this guest post from MJ Kinman and her Gemstones Serial.
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