Yes it' true...8 years without taking a brush to canvas like I used to..I lost the passion for it but I want it back..I have tried but I cannot bring myself to even draw what I would like to paint..I have no inspiration..I am a cop and I hang out with my gf most of the time..
2006-09-11 21:46:26 · 10 answers · asked by Eddie A 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Believe it or not, I stopped painting at around 14 years of age because I was so disillusioned and upset over my having to have surrendered an art scholarship I won at age 12. I was forced to surrender the scholarship because I was losing my vision at the time. I was wearing beer bottles for glasses! I stopped completely and never drew or sketched or painted... nothing! I got involved in photography a few years afterward and did very well. I did work as a wedding and portrait photographer to enable me to pay rent while my wife went to college and I worked a few jobs. I also got involved in engraving and made a lot of money from that, too. Today, some 45 years of not painting or drawing, I am starting to draw and paint again and, to my surprise, I still have some control over what I want to do with the pencils and brushes. It's amazing how easily it comes back with practice! Oh, I'm sometimes a bit discouraged because I remember what I was able to do and I've seen some of my work that I did back in the 50s and 60s (damned, I WAS good) but it is coming back, little by little. Hey, don't give up and enjoy it. Really. Just ENJOY it and be grateful you can still do it... as I am that I can still see!
2006-09-11 22:55:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eight years is NOTHING. Try 23! I now am a creative fool. I try almost every technique available. For example I am working with leather right now and painting on that. I am working with velvet too. You would NOT believe what you can do with that! Don't just think in terms of canvas. Think in terms of I wish I had one of those and then set out to make a really cool one! Christmas is coming. Think of something you would love to give your GF. I wan't a cool purse so I learned to sew them and then painted about 10 until I thought I got it right - I am selling the 10 and still seeking mine. I continue to refine it! One thing will lead to another and before long you will literally start devouring the canvas too. (This is what happened to me). You will learn new techniques and discover new ways of doing things. Learn new color combinations and reconnect with learning and communicating your feelings and beliefs thru art. Which is what it is about anyway.
Just take that first creative step. It doesn't have to be traditional canvas! But you will end up doing a bunch of them once you get your feet wet.
Since you can't seem to put brush to canvas start creating with something you want.
I suspect that you have a lot to say but just don't know how to say it! Do it while watching tv with gf. I did a pastel while watching a movie last night. It was like doodling while watching tv. The mind was not concentrating on it fully but in the end I learned and this morning I am doing the painting from what I learned. I suppose it is free association....It is fun and remember there are no right and wrongs.
2006-09-13 00:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by american horse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey...yeah I used to paint all the time when I was younger then stopped...I began again 10 years later at 24 and my skills were...well lets just say my life drawing looked like chalk outlines at a murder scene. But I took some classes and painted all the time on the side. Now it's my sole income. I work as a designer for an animation studio and have art shows all the time where all the art sells. Just start and it will all come back...it's a wonderful process to watch yourself get good again and just keep getting better!
2006-09-12 00:36:51 · answer #3 · answered by flying_dragon6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went through a period of more than 10 years! And I longed to paint but grew fearful that I'd lost it. During that time, I dreamed many wonderful paintings and tried hard to remember when awake so that might capture them on canvas. But the notion that I could not, kept me from trying. I'd tell everyone that, yes, I would begin painting again, and that I had been simmering...thinking about it and doing it in my head...prepariing for a new level of accomplishment...any rationalization would excuse my inactivity.
I had even bought a whole new set of oils even though I had switched to acrylics years ago. (After six years, I gave the oils to a friend). Eventually, the pent-up desire became a calm and I just re-started. No decision, no response to internal chastisement...just a waking up to being a painter again....and how I miss what I could have done during those 10 years. I paint now with near obsession, trying to make up for lost time...experience that is needed to understand, to control and to be satisfied with outcomes. So, all that is history and I am only considering each day...to paint as if there is no tomorrow, and to never fall in love with any piece. No more roadblocks. I know what needs to be done to arrive at a higher level, and I am producing the errors that must be made to learn.
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2006-09-11 23:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by Victor 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, but the art muse is pulling you away and you have to submit!
Please find a way to incorporate painting into your life. Your GF will understand, it will calm you down and center you and make you a better human being, it will feed your soul in a way she can't . She has to understand that.
2006-09-12 16:12:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just do it little by little, if you have enough time to paint, do it, no matter how hard it is just do it. And then you notice sometimes that your doing great. Just go and go. And practice again and again
2006-09-11 21:52:16 · answer #6 · answered by taz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paint your girlfriend in a cop outfit.
2006-09-11 21:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by redrum5785 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-12 00:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by oil painting reproduction 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made C's in art class, so no.
2006-09-11 21:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by Chuck Dhue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't force it let it flow naturally, you're trying too hard.
2006-09-11 21:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by Red Yeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋