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Artist's block
- Tina: damnit, what the hell to paint on a blue 4ft x4ft wood board!???? Damn instructor has my brain fried with "directional lines" and "composition" bs...... I just want to fucking paint something the pops into my head but every time I try to chalk it out I get even more frustrated!, or I am just being a goddamn photocopier again, and my brain tries to regurgitate an image I seen before. >_< mfsobdsposgd! ARGH!
- Casey: waves :D
- Tina: been done
- Casey: so do it differently lol
- Tina: been done sooo many times, and I have before, many times.. something sell-able preferably
- Paul: paint the word "BLUE" in red paint
- Tina: thats been done too- for stanford psych studies
- Paul: paint the word RAINBOW in black, lol
- Paul: sorry, just trying to help you brainstorm
- Tina: I thought that was funny, but anyhow, my painting class instructor had me do paintings with words for the last five months.... lets avoid the words.
- Tina: It kinda burns you out when that is all you do... :/ I wanted to burn my assignments by now.... I can't even stand looking at them, and I have to present them tomorrow.
- Paul: paint a rainbow in shades of black and gray
- Hannah: take a break and calm down and paint something like fruit in a bowl
- Matt: Paint the blue man group.... But just their eyes and what doesn't blend in.
- Matt: Or paint out a circle and put crosshairs in it like its a submarine periscope looking at an iceberg, or another boat
- Matt: Paint an under the ocean scene... Like ur at a giant aquarium or literally under the ocean.
- Matt: Paint a computer desktop with icons set to a blue background
- Matt: Paint lillypads on it and make it a topical view of a lake/swamp marsh... Frogs flies etc
- Matt: Leave it blue and title it... The last thing a baby smurf sees before its born...
- Tina: hahahahaha that last one was the funniest
Artist's block....
by ~tinanewtonart
After a semester of nothing but art courses at college, I have somehow lost my zest to be creative. I am burnt out on so many mundane art assignments that I don’t know what to draw. Nevertheless, I have the urge to create something interesting and nothing solid is coming to mind. I have a huge 4ft by 4ft luan door skin all primed dark blue for painting. So I have returned to trusty deviantART for inspiration, turning page after page, looking at all the wonderful art. I have just made it worse, now my mind is just searching the images for the “value, directional lines, form, composition, and tone. It seems that my instructor’s issue with ren
Camera phones aren’t the best for shooting artwork, but here it is after 2.5 hours of work with charcoal on Rives BFK. Image is 10in x 7in on a 29.5in x 22in sheet with a boarder that is 7.5in x 9.75in. (which is still masked off to keep it clean of charcoal dust, hence the masking tape.)
Assignment for Intermediate Freehand Drawing: What would you put in a baby food jar if you were to take anything from a fire? I actually didn’t bring anything because I plum forgot so I took everything from my pocket & wallet and stuck it in there. P38 can opener, quarter, upholstery needle, a dollar, a fortune from a cookie, an eraser, a brass pencil sharper and a handcuff key.
About the paper: Rives BFK paper is mould made in France. It is 100% rag and watermarked. $6.45 a 29.5in x 22in sheet
Should I do Kickstarter Funded Project? If so what should I do?
#Art #question
I want to do a public art project through funded through this site- Kickstarter.com: but I need aid in thinking up a project worth funding. I always wanted to do something big with my art, but I have always hit the budget wall; preventing me in doing so.
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art,technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.
Kickstarter has people pledge money to fund a creative project, in trade for the funding (called a Goal), certain incentives or rewards are given to the people pledging the funds (pledges). Some artists have given pledges printed postcards for a $5 pledge, while other incentives for funding is something like a poster or DVD of tutorials etc for a higher dollar amount. Thus in research of this site and what good it has to offer. I have discovered that the site charges a 5% fee on all collected monetary gain. To offset this fee, I have noticed that most projects have collected 100% of what funds they have asked for, or more. One had about
Philosophy Posters: 1,099% FUNDED $21,984 PLEDGED 16 DAYS LEFT 803 BACKERS $21,984 Total Funds/ PLEDGED OF $2,000 GOAL resource
This project made 1,099% of its funding goals. Amazing sounding as it is, I am weary of it, I need to make up a whole bussiness model on this Project basically.
- Thinking up a tangible project that would interest people, and entice them to fund it.
- Thinking up a time limit to get my project completed by.
- Pricing what I may offer as incentives, with shipping included in the price.
- Fathoming what may be required in manpower & time to commit to mailing out the rewards for the people who pledge.
- I must realize that Kickstarter gets 5% of all the funding. Hence $0.05 on every one dollar that is pledged to the project. Thus incorporating that into the final dollar goal amount
- all funds have to be somehow accounted for on taxes, thus incorporating that in the business-like project cost amount.
- create a video that states the project and what I need the funding for.
- Funding for creative projects only. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it. A project is not open-ended. Starting a business, for example, does not qualify as a project.
- Projects must fit Kickstarter’s categories. Kickstarter can be used to fund projects from the creative fields of Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater. We currently only support projects from these categories.
- No charity or cause funding. Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or donating a portion of funds raised on Kickstarter to a charity or cause.
- No “fund my life” projects. Examples include projects to pay tuition or bills, go on vacation, or buy a new camera.
- No prohibited items or subject matter. There are some things we just don’t allow on Kickstarter. Please review our list of prohibited items and subject matter, which includes things like contests, raffles, drugs, and other specific topics.
I see this site as a great tool, not to make money. However to fund the PR an artist needs to become known to the world. Art supplies, gallery fees, framing, shows etc all cost a pretty penny. And the cliche title “Starving Artist” isn’t just a cliche, its a honest to goodness truth.
Just for one art course at college, not including the rest of the supplies the course needed, just the paints; acrylic tubes of paint (2oz) for about ten of these tubes was $150.00. That is not including brushes (one cost me $21.00). Stretcher bars & luan door skin ($58.00) for two 4X4 canvas frames (not including the raw canvas & Gesso for priming them which thank god the school provided). I have well spent over $500 on just one course’s worth of supplies. And I am in two others as well currently.
I work a job as a teacher’s aide to support my home life with. I know as an art major; that my education is expensive. Which leaves no budget afterward for launching oneself into the art world with a big project or show because the funding is so often nonexistent.
I am skeptical of this idea, more so cautious. It is a rather large endeavor to be making. However at the same time, even more moronic not to do it. Its a resource to fund a big project, and its going to be my career one day to do big projects; so can I stand up and do it? If I don’t organize a project, am I worthy of a gallery or an art show? Or am I doomed to be a caricature artist on the beach or docks somewhere making change off of tourists for the rest of my life.
People often say that I would be a great artist one day. When in fact, I dislike the pedestal they place me onto by saying such things. Even though I hope one day I will be. It just makes the hurdle seem so much harder to achieve rather than swell my ego.
So people should I focus on making a large public art project a reality, and use Kickstarter.com to aid in it’s funding? The project would aid in my mission to become a renown artist, while boosting PR and getting people interested & more involved in my work as an artist?
Source: kickstarter.com
★ Question to Followers ★
Happy Saturday!
I have been discussing with my friends and classmates that I should start making art tutorial videos to teach people how to do artistic things. Some want Photoshop tutorials, some want just basic drawing instructions. Should I spend my free time this summer creating tutorial videos on My Youtube Channel? (Of course posting them to my tumblr blog, or should I create a new blog for the tutorials?)
