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Holly Surplice's avatar

Love this read! I’m a big fan of variety in work, for me, it keeps my interest & allows me to be consistent when I need to be. For example, I can be wildly experimental doing one thing, throwing lots of energy into it which then lets me be calm and consistent illustrating a book alongside it. I really enjoy having different facets and flavours in work, it all feeds each other I think.

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Sue Clancy's avatar

I quit worrying about "style" decades ago especially after reading a number of biographies of well known artists. I look at any well known artists work and there's a wide variety of styles and they used a wide variety of materials. That's how they kept their creativity and curiosity alive by changing methods, materials, subjects.

It's the public relations marketing aspect of capitalism - particularly when computers are involved- that wants a simplistic one-thing definition of a complex artistic person. Slavish devotion to algorithm keywords etc may be easier for marketing but for living humans it's very boring. Human minds want variety.

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