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Based on my experience—i.e., years of procrastination, followed by a couple years of rigorous work, resulting in two personal masterpieces—I’ve written a 16-step guide to get you started on your own masterpiece.
Writing Your Masterpiece: The Guide to Crafting Songs That Defy Mediocrity. Can you imagine being in the studio or in the stadium – hearing Freddie Mercury sing just one of his masterpieces i.e. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Another One Bites The Dust,” “One Vision,” “Under Pressure,” “Who Wants to Live Forever,” etc.? This would be unbelievable right?
- Behind The Scenes: Picasso 1932
- Here’s What I Learnt About Creating Masterpieces from Picasso
- What Is A Masterpiece? and How Can I Create One?
I’ve used the analogy of painting quite a few times to demonstrate tangible and visual outcomes of the creative process. Through this, I have learned a lot about creative practice from painters that has greatly informed my songwriting practice. In 2017 I visited an exhibition in Paris called “Picasso 1932” at Musée Picasso Paris. It was an event de...
1. Create Prolifically
Over 365 days of the year 1932, Picasso created more than 250 paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and more. This was a pivotal year for Picasso’s artistic evolution and I got curious as to why. Looking at the chronology of artworks, Picasso created an artwork every week and sometimes up to 4 works a week. He created when he was at home and he created when he was on the road and even travelling. He created prolifically. If this was a pivotal year for Picasso, I’m certain that his proli...
2. Write an entire song in one sitting
When it comes to his paintings, almost all of Picasso’s works were created really fast. He was in a great hurry it seems and it shows in the paint now peeling off on many of the canvases. There is a painting technique called ‘alla prima’ meaning at once, or at first attempt. It means that the painter created the work in one session. It requires boldness and directness, a trusting of one’s instincts, a time limit and a spontaneity that can elicit an immediate and inspired response. Some people...
3. Let your experiences shape your creative output
At this exhibition, I could see how everything that Picasso experienced affected the art he made. For example, he was painting beach scenes for a number of weeks in 1932 before he had to go to Switzerland. He visited a gothic cathedral on his travels and played around with crucifixion paintings. By the time he returned to his beach paintings, they were highly influenced by the gothic cathedral theme. Rather than forcing the former beach idea, he allowed himself and his art to be changed by hi...
A masterpiece is a term that is awarded after a work of extraordinary skill and creativity has been given much critical praise, and is considered the greatest work of a person’s career. Over his career of 70 years, it’s estimated that Picasso produced about 50,000 works of art in all media. Mathematically, that works out to about 2 pieces a day, in...
Nov 21, 2011 · My goal is not to give you a roadmap for composing your masterpiece. If I were to attempt that, I would undoubtedly fail. My goal is actually to give you insight into your own process of composition.
Feb 6, 2017 · Here’s how to compose the elements of your novel into a masterpiece. Get too focused on any one instrument at play in your story, and you may lose sight of the harmony inherent in truly great fiction.
When in need, pick up the rubber to erase any mistake that ruins the masterpiece, click wherever you need, and it will clear away any unwanted bits. Play Little Einsteins: My Masterpiece Game and create incredibly artworks. Place the stickers wherever you want or even start a landscape from scratch!
How does Visual Music and Poetry ® help me create a masterpiece? You can define a painting as visual poetry combined with visual music, and created using a painting process. This model will help you place contemporary work and the great changes that painting went through during the 20th century (from abstract art to photo realism, and ...
