At Last! It’s nearly 6pm and I have finally managed to actually put something out there – just a beginning but I am hopeful ……….. how do we start a new work whether it’s writing, painting, making? Do you write your own brief? Just start? And then what? How long does it take – a lot longer than you hope / expect ?
northoneartist 
i think about the painting for a loooong time-far longer than is necessary really-as each one has the same chance of success or failure…I might do some preliminary drawings,but its mostly thought ,usually while gardening-then I force myself to sit down with the dreaded white sheet of paper-and stop my self from finding endless displacement activities-oh! I must cook that jam…clean the bathroom…polish the cat…NO!!I will sit here until I get some sort of result…
and 6 times out of ten it works….