The impulse reflector

When I view art, I usually try and figure out how it was created and why. I find that My own personal interactions with my art leads me to discover more and more of who I am and what I want. One of the great discoveries of my self has been my coming to understand better how I work most efficiently. I can be descried as an abstract artist, and this is certainly true, but I also am a photographer, a sculpture, a realist (if I really focus), a print maker, and many other types of art. I have found that I like to move and work quickly. This has led me to understand that I have some very strong artistic tendencies and impulses. I find that when I have a fairly clear Idea of what I want a piece to be in the end, I have to be very mind full of these impulses. These could be impulses of destruction when I really don't think that the piece needs to be destroyed or any number of other impulses. One of the ways that I work through this to work on multiple works at the same time. An example would be; if I am working on a watercolor that requires focus, dedication to the project end and restraint in over working, I will need to have a alternate activity to take the shock of the wide brush, big stroke, crazy color artistic impulse. This can be in the form of another canvas, a sculpture, or a bike ride. Anything that helps to take the tension and dissipate it. There have also been many times when these impulse are correct for the piece that I am working on and that is a different blog about why and how to look at and analyze these impulse to add this or take off that, and do I have to have a clear reason why I do something or can I just use my training, background, and abilities to decipher where the piece wants to go. So until that day...