See what I mean about playing in your art journal? The more you play you learn whatcha like and whatcha don't like...
You find the colors you like...and in doing that, you learn COLOR.
You learn the images you like and the things that you gravitate towards...STYLE.
You learn what is YOU and what rocks your art world...
You don't judge. You don't compare (never ever compare). You PLAY. You dive right in and see what happens...The more you do this, the happier you'll be as an artist (and probably other things will follow, too!)
I love the YAWN. These were made in early 2003-wow, 5 years ago. Some of them were in a publication...some of them weren't. I think the SAFE page is one of my favorites because of the message I was trying to document and talk about...
Remember: Make art for your eyes and the more you do it for you, for your eyes...don't worry about what the rest of them think.
Some good quotes that apply to art:
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it." (Tallulah Bankhead)
"We should say to each of them [our children]: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?" (Pablo Casals)
"Each piece is unique and takes its own time to be realized. I am not concerned with the quantity, but only that they communicate my understanding of life and my craft at that particular time." (Sharon Knettell)
"A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it." (Henri Matisse)
"The painter, being concerned only with giving his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else." (Claude Monet)
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." (Henry David Thoreau)
"-to her house guests
Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again." (Georgia O'Keeffe)
"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
Orson Welles
And my most favorite-
"I passionately hate the idea of being "with it." An artist has always to be out of step with his time." (Orson Welles)
You find the colors you like...and in doing that, you learn COLOR.
You learn the images you like and the things that you gravitate towards...STYLE.
You learn what is YOU and what rocks your art world...
You don't judge. You don't compare (never ever compare). You PLAY. You dive right in and see what happens...The more you do this, the happier you'll be as an artist (and probably other things will follow, too!)
I love the YAWN. These were made in early 2003-wow, 5 years ago. Some of them were in a publication...some of them weren't. I think the SAFE page is one of my favorites because of the message I was trying to document and talk about...Remember: Make art for your eyes and the more you do it for you, for your eyes...don't worry about what the rest of them think.
Some good quotes that apply to art:
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it." (Tallulah Bankhead)
"We should say to each of them [our children]: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?" (Pablo Casals)
"Each piece is unique and takes its own time to be realized. I am not concerned with the quantity, but only that they communicate my understanding of life and my craft at that particular time." (Sharon Knettell)
"A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it." (Henri Matisse)
"The painter, being concerned only with giving his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else." (Claude Monet)
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." (Henry David Thoreau)
"-to her house guests
Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again." (Georgia O'Keeffe)
"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
Orson Welles
And my most favorite-
"I passionately hate the idea of being "with it." An artist has always to be out of step with his time." (Orson Welles)
Comments
But for me.. I feel so god damn angry at things in my neighbourhood.. that I'm afraid my art journal would come out looking violent.
I Know how you feel. I feel the same way-shit in my building, shit in my neighborhood, shit in my country, shit in the world. It's good to get stuff out though even if it's just in your journal...kinda gives you a place to start, you know?
Xo
Dawn.
You learn the images you like and the things that you gravitate towards...STYLE.
This is so true! I didn't believe it until it happened in my sketchbook.
I really enjoyed your Stamp Act class around the beginning of the year. ( I had the garden gnomes with axes. Did you ever find any at Barnes and Noble?)
Since then I started messing around with watercolors. I stayed away from color because it's complicated. My artist friends would say things like "oo, this wall paint has more red in it", and I'd think "she's on crack, this paint is blue". Somewhere along the way the penny dropped into the slot, and I get it. I get warm and cold colors, too, and can mix up the color I want from my paint set without too much trouble.
After a dozen or so drawings, voila, there's a style emerging. It's wild! I wonder what will evolve next.