I’ve been fantasizing about painting. It’s largely based on one of my new fave artists: Beatriz Milhazes (she did the painting above). Oh, the smell, the delight on mopping up thick gorgeous color on a brush. Issues with me painting:
1. I’m not good at it.
2. I never feel like I have ENOUGH paint! I often get the brands that all my art teachers recommended, and therefore we’re talking about little tubes, when in reality I want LARGE buckets of paint.
3. I’m cheap/poor, and canvases, paint, and brushes are all $pendy (B, I love it when you do that with esses).
4. Oh, and I don’t really know how to do it. One of the things that happens to me is that I go to mix some fantastic color, and begin painting, only to realize I need more of said fantastic color, and I can never recreate it.
5. Bah!
6. In the painting fantasy, I combine some images with painting, but really, how do you do that without it looking so middle school? Yeah, I dunno...
So yeah, do you think a good dose of watching Bob Ross would satiate some of this desire?
2 comments:
Oh Bob Ross... and didn't his son have a show for a while on PBS too, after he died?
Who cares if it will be "good." Isn't the point of art supposed to be the journey and not the destination? And how will you ever become "good" if you don't practice?
A few months ago I found a wonderful slide show (I looked for it to show you but no luck) of an art show where all the painting was done with house paint. You can get LOTS of house paint pretty cheap! Also, for just dinking around, buy the cheap acrylic in fifty cent tubes at the craft store. You can have a grand time with those and if you mix in a little fabric medium, you can paint on my clothes. For what it's worth, I can only water color, and even then I've lost my knack since I had kids. Everything I paint now looks painted by...well...a kid.
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