The process of

art creation
Steps to follow
The beautiful in
Art
 STEPS

Does Your Creative Process

Include These 5 Stages?
Inspiration
Percolation
Preparation
Creation
Reflection
 Inspiration

This is one of the most exciting moments

in the process of creating art: that
beautiful moment when inspiration
strikes.
 Well, that’s a subject
Where does that has baffled and
mystified people for
inspiration come centuries.

from? Perhaps it’s a film or

piece of fine art that
inspires you; perhaps it’s
something from nature or
an event that has occurred
in your life. Sometimes, an
idea seems to come out of
nowhere.
Wherever ideas come
from, they have an
uncanny way of striking at
the oddest moments:
while waiting for the bus,
in the middle of rush hour,
or while you’re in the
bath.
 Percolation

While it’s not the most glamorous part of the creative

process, the “percolation” period is vital to creating art.
Basically, this is the time that elapses after you’ve had
your idea, but before you start making art. It can
transpire in many different ways.
Sometimes this involves refining your idea by
making sketches (and tossing out just as many)
or playing around with ideas visually. Other
times, it’s just a matter of giving an idea space to
germinate. Sometimes, you may have an idea
years before you create the piece of artwork it
inspired. It doesn’t mean you’ve been resting on
your laurels that entire time, though. There’s
part of you that is always processing and refining
your idea.
 Preparation
Preparation can be confused with the “percolation”
period, but it is a more active and focused time. You’ve
settled on your inspiration and how you’d like to proceed.
Now, it’s a matter of figuring out how to make it happen.
Preparation includes the time spent obtaining and
organizing your supplies, plus creating a blueprint for what
your piece will be. Maybe that means making roughs or
creating a dummy outline for a book project.
Preparatio
n
 Creation
Finally, it’s time to make it
happen! Creation is the
time during which you are
solidly on your path. You
have your pen to paper,
your brush to canvas. You
are creating.

The process of creation can vary depending on your

personal temperament, your artistic style and your
medium. For some, the process of creation is actually
quite short and much of the work has been done in
the previous phases for instance, a simple line
drawing. While it might take minutes to complete the
drawing, the thought and time developing that idea
was the more time-consuming part of that project.
For a detailed painting, it might be just the
opposite you might spend hours, days or
weeks refining the perfect light on a
realistically painted flower petal in oil.
 Reflection

After you create a piece of art, there might be a

slight tizzy of activity: sharing it with family
and friends, delivering it to a client or hanging
it on the wall. But regardless of the end point of
the art, its completion often leads to a period of
reflection.
This reflection will be different for everyone. For some
artists, there’s a sort of low-grade post-creative depression
that occurs, making them feel a little empty and “spent.”
For others, there’s relief: “It’s done! I can move on to the
next thing!” For others, there are regrets: “I wish I had
made this line longer, I wish I had made that part of the
composition blue.”
Activity
Name: ___________________ Section : _____Date: _________
Professor: ________________Score:____________________
Time started : _____Time  Finished : ___Working Time: __
Directions: Analyze the artworks.
Art Analysis
 THANK YOU so much for
listening
by:
MARIA JOSEFA C. ORCEGA