if you don't have real art talent now, as an adult, is it something that can be learned?

Question

basically, i cannot draw and i think painting is fun, and i want to learn how to paint pretty pictures, like a beginner's course?

What do you guys think? oh and i am 28, if that matters.

Answer 1

I have been painting and teaching for forty years now. I am solidly convinced that ANYBODY who wants to can learn to paint. I've even taught learning disabled students. If, as experts say, we are only using less than 10% of our brains, then that tells me that if I make efforts to develop new skills I can tap into at least some of that unused portion. There are numbers of examples of people who learned to paint quite well who began much later in life. Winston Churchill and Grandma Moses, for instance. Just get a good teacher, and by that I mean someone who paints well themself and who ENCOURAGES you. Good success my friend!

Answer 2

Yes if you want to paint you can. I have been drawing and painting since a child and I am mediocre, but I love it. The secret is having the knack to have something in your paintings and drawings that attract people, imagination with color I think. You should get a sketch pad and take some drawing lessons, it will teach you perspective, etc. Don't worry about it if you don't think your drawings are any good, practice makes perfect, and if it doesn't nothing lost and you have given it a try without investing a lot of money at first. Even if you can't draw very well, you may be able to paint beautifully; but you need the basics. You will learn what to look for when you see an object you would like to paint. Also sketch everything, chairs, empty glasses, water, animals, flowers, etc. Look at Grandma Moses (I think that is her name), she started in her 80s, and her paintings aren't lovely, just interesting, but they sell.

Answer 3

Yes - it can be learned (unlike what many are led to believe). Art is mostly mental, the rest is just spending the time doing it. That's why artists are "good" at what they do, because usually they are either making it or thinking about making it. Just keep an open mind and experiment, a lot. If you take a course, ask a lot of questions (not just of the instructer but other students too - you can learn just as much from them sometimes). Seek out and look at a lot of artwork too.

I went to art school for painting, and in my four years there were students enrolled in classes who were in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. I even had a photography teacher who held several doctorate degrees (in non-art disciplines) and was a master of photgraphy, yet he decided he wanted to learn how to paint in his late 70's. So he enrolled in intro studio classes, as simple as that. It's never too late, as long as your still breathing.

Answer 4

to start what's your mom's concept of a photographer, and what's your concept? there are a number of fascets and careers in the sphere of imagery commencing from positive artwork, commercial to medical. certainly your mom has a element that many careers in photos do no longer supply a sufficient earnings, yet that may not real with all photographers. As a product photographer I make a particularly solid residing that's on par with any white collar expert. whether, there are in easy terms so few jobs for us, and the sphere is very aggressive at cases, yet my existence's selection become no longer unavoidably according to reason, yet hobby and keenness is what makes me or the different expert solid. in case you do no longer appreciate what you're doing, you would be depressing, yet having stated which you will be depressing in case you have materialistic objectives in existence and choose photos as your profession direction. individually in case you do pick photos as your profession direction evaluate a school and not an artwork college. a school with an excellent artwork branch will supply a much broader and various education than an accepted artwork college can. additionally you're able to double substantial or a minimum of get a minor in a proper field, according to threat merchandising (this is that in case you determine a profession direction in photos geared in the direction of the commercial end) actuality is countless photographers won't be in a position to continually help themselves on in basic terms photos and could have a 2nd activity, and working at an merchandising employer is a huge way no longer in easy terms to make money yet to get a extra advantageous seem on the commercial photos marketplace from the different element of the fence. in any case save on with your hobby, yet in the technique use a sprint reason and you will do exactly positive.

Answer 5

Yes you should do it. Be realistic. Starting at 28 with little natural talent (if that's true) you probably won't become like Georgia O'Keefe, but you can have a very enjoyable hobby. For example I have little to no inborn talent in music. I write songs but I can't even remember my own chords if I don't write them down. Everyone in my family has a terrible voice, yet I sing. Why not? I think doing some things just for fun makes us more creative and well rounded human beings.

Answer 6

I didnt start painting until I was 31 and very ill. I took having nothing better to do to get me started at something I thought Id be really bad at, but actually am really good at, Its never too late to learn something new.

Answer 7

It depends on the person but yeah, you can learn. My high school Interior Design teacher told us that we had to learn to draw and sketch to become Interior designers....she said it dint matter if we had never drew in our lives because it was a learned skill...Some people are just gifted and talented and born with that skill

Answer 8

Anyone can be artistic, and anyone can create art. True, that it comes much easier to some souls than others. In order to create real art you must understand what art is. Art is an expression of self, and an exploration of self. Learn to express your feelings through an act of creation that interests you, and then learn to increase you skill at accuratly expressing yourself through better control over your medium.

Answer 9

Yes. For drawing, take a look at
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

This is also referenced here.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006030202801

When my kids were younger, they followed this book and
were doing amazing things.

Answer 10

I recomend reading "the theory of multiple intelligences" by Howard Gardner. It is a comprehensive work that is very relevent to the question you ask.

The summery of the most relevent part is that we all have some talent or 'inteligence' in all areas, and that with practice you can develop any of them