Doesn't this make you want to dive in and get messy?
It makes me think of an art teacher I had when I was little and took painting lessons in her barn. She told the group of 5 or so of us: It is nice to look at your brand new box of colors all lined up perfectly, but never make them too precious. Use them, get messy, loose yourself in the process and you'll do your best work.
She was the same woman who taught me some tricks to save a painting. "Have you tried more yucky yellow?" she would ask. (She had a lot of faith in yellow ochre to pull a painting together.) If some of her other tricks didn't work and we still weren't happy with a painting, she would take the piece of masonite to the sink and rinse it off so we could start fresh. There was a lot of experimenting going on in that barn and not letting art supplies or whatever we were creating become too precious was one of the biggest lesson I learned.
It makes me think of an art teacher I had when I was little and took painting lessons in her barn. She told the group of 5 or so of us: It is nice to look at your brand new box of colors all lined up perfectly, but never make them too precious. Use them, get messy, loose yourself in the process and you'll do your best work.
No comments:
Post a Comment