Top Ten Signs That You’re Serious About Your Art?

Question

10. You would rather spend your money on new canvases than new shoes or a new dress or a new suit. The clerks at Goodwill all know you by name.

9. Yapping on your cell phone annoys you because it distracts you from the painting you’re working on.

8. Britney who? Paris who? Anna Nicole Who? Caring about what celebrities do takes up too much of your precious time.

7. Your television quit working weeks ago and you still haven’t gotten around to repairing or replacing it.

6. Your vacuum cleaner is covered with dust from lack of use.

5.-1. (Please add your own to this list. And have fun!)

Answer 1

8-10 Totally agree with the way the list counts down!
7 - needs an adjustment... I wouldn't know if my TV was broke or not 'cause I never think about turning it on, my easel is in front of it!
6 - needs an adjustment... When I moved, I only had enough room left on the truck for one more thing... my third easel squeezed in nicely, but I think I left the vacuum behind...

:)

5. Find greater therapy with a paint brush in my hand than ever found on a couch next to the doc and his/her notepad.

4. Have paint on approximately half of my wardrobe, and the other half might not be safe much longer.

3. Daydream about what I am going to paint when I get home from work.

2. Spend hours drooling over the Jerry's Artarama catalog when it arrives in the mail.

1. Have gotten hunter green paint on a brand new white couch, and black paint on a tan carpet... and NOT CARED!!!! :)

Answer 2

5. Even your underwear has paint stains.
4. The floor draws more comments than your work.
3. Paint goes dry in the tube because you haven't had time to clean the caps that no longer fit because of accumations of dried paint.
2. You shake hands with a new customer in your real job and he glances down at backside of your hand spotted with pthalo green.
1. You constantly find excuses to leave work early or not go in at all.

Answer 3

You sell a piece which is great but you feel like youre parting with your firstborn child.
You go out to dinner and realise that you have red, green, and yellow on your nails and it isn't nail polish.
Someone LOVES a painting you also love and for the same reasons so you GIVE it to them.
Every piece you dont sell makes you wonder why you ever paint at all.
Every wooden surface in your house has something painted on it.
People KNOW what to buy you for your birthday/Christmas etc.

Answer 4

5. u lie to your friends about having plans so u can paint.

4.englishis to spanish as looking is to seeing beacause u break what u see down into shapes.

3.You smile when a pencel sharpens just right beacause u no how eartating it is when they wont.

2.You passed out last week because you were 2 busy painting to think about eating.

1.u go to skool with a temp of 300 because u dont want to miss art class.

Answer 5

number 1

hard to find any clothing I own that doesn't have paint somewhere on it.

- your body has built up an immunity to the amount of cobalt that you've drank that has dotted your coffee or eaten off the handle of your paint brush. ( you may even glow !)

-your brother goes rabbit hunting and you ask for the skin to make glue like the old masters.

-you have 3 sculpting armatures going at once.

- a big one for me ! not labeling my spray bottles and getting turps mixed up with water and using the wrong one.( nothing more frustrating than spraying a wet canvas with water )

- you own more painting brushes than you do for your hair.

- in the middle of ' automatic painting' , where your flying like a maniac on auto pilot and your given the invitation to make love you truely find it a hard decision. ( you usually end up saying ' in a minute' to find 30 or so have gone by and the opportunity has passed you by. lol)

Answer 6

- You find yourself sketching the people and things in the waiting room at the doctor's office, on the bus, at work, etc.

- You can't help drawing in the sand or scuplting it at the beach or even when you're with your child at the playground in the sanbox

- You fight over the crayons with your own children

- Instead of writing "wash me" in a dirty car window, you make subtractive masterpieces

- You buy art supplies even when you're on vacation

- You have a gazillion pencils and pens, probably enough to supply your local school district

- You compulsively make mental gesture drawings

- Making things is as necessary as food, sleep and shelter

Answer 7

a million) Scorpio- very manipulative, controlling, moody and JEALOUS as ****! terrible to be around. even though in case you're acquaintances with them - they are probable manipulating you in some way that your not attentive to, yet (in particular the girl!) 2) Aquarius- for me, they care too lots approximately all human beings else particularly of the main mandatory human beings in front of their rattling face. they are conventional to be the 'humanitarians' of the zodiac, yet i've got conventional some aquarians that have performed lots of the main inhumane issues to human beings! i are not getting a protracted with them. 3) Gemini- for obvious motives! HAHAAAAA 4) maximum cancers- Too ******* clingy and whiny! They ***** approximately each and every thing like as though human beings are meant to restoration their problems. Too emotional (exceptionally the adult men)! The women folk are DRAMA Queens!

Answer 8

One sign is that you cant sleep at night or are restless / continually thinking / re-thinking concepts / ideas. You are tormented day and night by ideas / self doubts about what u are aiming to achieve / portray.

Another sign - your running out of coffee and u need a shower!

Answer 9

You don't have dirty dishes in your sink only dirty paint brushes.

you don't have clothes with out paint and you could care less that you dont.

people stop you at the store and ask what types of painting you do. (this happens to me all the time).

Answer 10

When you see art thats better then yours, you feel you need to get better so you can be better then that person!

You some times drink painting water (my art teacher does that...dont ask...)

You'll put your art on a wall then walk 20-some feet away to see what it looks like.
(I do that alot...)