This article reports on a mixed method study of painting and drawing activities of professional
artists utilizing semi-structured interviews documenting affective states. The experiential data
was supplemented with empirical data utilizing experiments. In experiential data gathering, due to
many complex layers of processing, people often intellectualise or censor their responses between
an emotional reaction and a verbal report. In this study the empirical assessment options of skin
conductance, peripheral skin temperature, respiration and heart rate (blood-volume-pulse) measured
physiological reactions whilst making art. The rationale for conducting such empirical assessments
is to establish whether a correlation can be found between artists’ affective descriptions of the art
making experience and physiological responses of participating artists.
Hierdie artikel gee verslag oor ‘n gemengdemetode studie van die emosionele stemming van
professionele kunstenaars tydens teken- en skilderaktiwiteite deur gebruik te maak van semigestruktureerde
onderhoude. Die ervaringsdata is aangevul deur empiriese eksperimente. Tydens
ervaringsdata-insameling, as gevolg van etlike lae komplekse verwerking, is mense soms geneig om
hulle antwoorde in die tydsverloop tussen ‘n emosionele reaksie en ‘n verbale verslag te intellektualiseer
of sensor. Hierdie studie gebruik empiriese bepalings om velkonduktiwiteit, omtreksveltemperatuur,
asemhaling en hartklop te bepaal. Die grondrede vir hierdie empiriese bepalings is om vas te stel of
daar ‘n korrelaat bestaan tussen kunstenaars se emosionele beskrywings en hul fisiologiese respons
tydens die verloop van kunsskep.
