Thursday, 20 January 2011
For goodness sake......
I decided I was going to try a different style of art, much as I enjoy the animals I think I've fallen down the trap of doing what I think people want to buy, which still doesn't sell anyway. Somewhere along the line I've lost a bit of creativity so I thought new year, new art, new medium. I've done some sketches and prepared three boards for oil paintings. So there I was sat in my studio thinking bloody hell, I'm scared to start oils being a new medium and all that, what if I do it wrong?? I had to rationalise this as it's silly; it's paint, board and brushes what on earth is there to be worried about? I think the problem with me is I always want to feel I'm pleasing people and I've had to realise you can't please everyone all the time, it's stifling me creatively. Besides I think people can be really over critical these days anyway, they seem to get pleasure moaning about what everyone else does all the time. I was really inspired by Molly Crabapple who started Dr Sketchy's anti art schools. It doesn't matter if you can or can't draw as long as you have a great time doing it. All art should be about personal freedom of expression rather than worrying constantly about what anyone else will say, so there should be no "wrong". So I'm going to experiment and have fun doing it, or at least try to lose some of the inhibitions that have been holding me back. Feel free to remind me of this if I wibble!!
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Have you decided what new medium you're going to try? My grandmother always painted scenery, usually old barns. I know it's probably scary trying something new, but it should be fun and exciting too! I didn't think there was really a right or wrong in art . . . if someone wasn't willing to do something wrong we wouldn't have new, unique art. It would all be the same boring stuff. :) Am I making any sense? Anyway I know you can do it and I'm excited to see what you try out. Remember just have fun!
If I were you I wouldn't worry too much about making a mess with oils as they're quite easy to work with. Anyway, don't fret about what your finished picture looks like, just look at some of the stuff that's hung in galleries and going under the disguise of art! You can always work it into splodges and call it 'modernist'.
I got some oil paints and alkyds (quick drying oils) way back when I did my pet portrait course, tried a couple of times with them, got worried my coursework wouldn't be good enough, so put them away lol!
I am exactly the same as I am with horse training, rather than get on with it I read loads and convince myself it might go "wrong". Paralysis by analysis again lol! Really I just need to get on with it!
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