5.3 REPETITION

In this lesson we are considering repetition as a process and methodology. Repetition is where you come back to the same theme and explore it over and over again. This lesson contains two videos where I show you how to utilise repetition in two different ways.

Here are some things to think about:

• Repetition can help you to understand and explore a theme in-depth, rather than ‘one and done’ you are developing a response

• Repetition in your sketchbook means you don’t have to keep thinking ‘what shall I do today?’ - you have a starting point

• It is often by exploring one theme or subject in different ways that we begin to better understand what interests us about it

• Repetition helps us to become more fluent in our art making - the more art we make the more likely we are to understand what we like and why

• Repetition gives us a freedom to try things out and try different approaches. We will feel less concerned about a perfect outcome, if we know we are going to explore the same theme again and again

• Each drawing or page can inform the next, we take what we learned and liked about one and we apply it to the next

• Some artist’s have spent their whole art career revisiting the same subject over and over again