interesting phenomenum

[stapeliad Moderator, NYC]

A book right up my alley!
Thanks D.

Developing visual memory is so important… and it really comes down to observation. It absolutely changes the way everything looks.

Perhaps one day if I look at a pile of leaves long enough I’ll be able to paint it as well as Derek can.

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[tiago.dagostini]

Call me crazy on this one if you like. I noticed that if I am on a long painting spree, working several hours a day, almost everyday. Doing my usual things OTHER than painting, I see the world much differently, it is more colorful and I see values more clearly. I look at things and imagine how I would paint the object or scene. Watching TV when good quality film is shown, I do the same: how would I paint that lovely landscape in Downton Abbey? The experience goes away if I take a long break from creating. Must be Zen I guess.

Any psychological effects that you guys have noted when really working long and hard?

Derek

it is simply conditioning.. The brain optimizes itself and reinforce the connections when you focus deeply in something satisfactory. I think it happens to a lot of artists. I get the same when I do a marathon of anything immersive like playing a video game.. and when I go out I see a flower and immediately thinks on the terms of the formula that I had to use that flower in the game I was playing.

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[AnnieA]

Yes, I notice this too. In fact, when I’ve been painting regularly, I notice things more and they seem more in focus and colorful…and meaningful. You must be right about the Zen thing, Derek, and I may just try to find a copy of that book!

I also notice that my creativity juices, once flowing, don’t restrict themselves to painting. Lately I’ve come up with good ideas (at least I think they’re good! :D) for a film and another for novel, although I’m neither a filmmaker nor a novelist.

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[scmelik]

I know I’ve experienced this quit a few times. When I use to train dogs full time for competition I was constantly seeing potential training setup whenever I passed by a pond or field. Now that I have been putting a lot of effort into learning to paint I’ve started looking and trying to see the subtle value and color shifts in everything I look at.

[Pinguino]

Early in the film “Being There,” we meet Chance the gardener, mildly retarded man who spends much of his idle time watching television, using the clicker to change the channel when the TV is not showing something he likes.

When his provider dies, and Chance must leave the house, he takes the clicker with him. On the street, when he encounters people he doesn’t like, he attempts to change them, by clicking.

I find that painting has become my own clicker. When I see something unattractive, I mentally paint it another way.

[Dcam]

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[Richard P]

So true, Allison. I spent three weeks painting nothing but grass last month (my first painting is endlessly huge *sigh*) and for a time, grass was all I could see when I was out of the house.. Lawns were billowing out at me in more detail than I could have thought possible. Then when I changed over to painting more on the sky/clouds, suddenly I stopped looking at grass so much and couldn’t take my eyes off the sky.

Like so many others have mentioned, this is definitely one of the big perks to painting.. it’s like everything is so much more beautiful, vibrant, “felt”, etc.

SO.. the answer is I need to paint cakes to like them even more?

[Delofasht]

I was discussing this with my wife the other day actually, the way the world looks after painting for several days in a row is so very different to me than it is when I go long stretches without painting. Beyond the visual effects noted by several here, I also get a kinetic sense as though making the strokes of the imagined painting and feeling the sense of colors I would mix. It is quite fascinating to me really, and after years of doing art on a daily basis this is starting to become my normal mode of operation.

Interestingly enough, I put on books or music on while painting and kind of zone out completely and words come difficult to me. My wife got my attention the other day, asking something about dinner, there was a visual flash of a plate of cooked Spicy Cashew Chicken in my mind but when I went to speak the words would not come easily. This is by far the most interesting aspect of being in the “zone” for me.

- Delo Delofasht

[Ale2018]

I always had this impression of things. We direct our eyes and feelings with more attention to what we love.

It´s very pleasant to be able to distinguish things from a personal perspective. Just think of that saying: “Love is blind to the eyes of others.”

We can see beauty where others can not see anything.

Alexandre George
Just an amateur artist trying to learn the noble art!

[ptrkgmc]

I tend to think I will be the next best thing to baked bread, Lol.

[TomMather]

I’ve experienced the same phenomenon with painting as well as writing. Since I started painting again when I retired, I am seeing things I want to paint or photograph all the time. The more I paint, the more I see.

A similar thing happened in my years as a newspaper and magazine writer. The more I wrote, the more I observed and thought of subjects to write about.

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