Way back WHEN
How to start PAINTING
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! 100% !, 60 and Beyond, Acrylic Painting, AW Welcome Center, Fine Arts, Up & Coming Writers and Woman AppreciationDelete Blog 07/10/07
12:22 AM Start with a canvas to large to put in your car, a large window washer’s squeege, a few kitchen spatulaes or other types of long flat surfaced utensils with handles, that can be easily controled. Titanium White and Red, Blue, Yellow with a very black Black for basic start up. Where ever you can lay it out: floor, bench, lawn, mounted on wall or other location(s) will serve to launch your intentions. Look at it, stare at it, be frightened of it, live with it, and await the instant when either from the inside of you or the inside of the painting starts! Whatever you remember from art school about colour, line, design, composition etc. get rid of it….spill your guts, look at it from all sides, don’t worry about being neat, pretty, clean, careful, just drip it, throw it, splash it, what your inside tell you to do to it. Stand back look at it from all sides. Let it happen, and don’t care about what somebody else THINKS, ‘cause it’s not about them, it’s about YOU. You probably won’t know where it came from, and if you do it’s not their business. It’s your expression. NOW what they feel is their IMPRESSION of your expression. Van Gogh died broke and now his stuff sells for millions, his brother Theo couldn’t give his stuff away, it was too dark…Price your work to the Moon if you want to!
Elf Evans 14 June 2009
helene ruiz
salud…cheers….all that good stuff! y i dont believe we need a school to become an artist…it comes from inside…perfectly said elf….absolutely perfect! wish u could paint these words as a mural across the sky!
Julialala
Well said!
A. JILL GAEBEL
Stated perfectly, Elf! We have to create for ourselves…satisfy ourselves first.
Martin McKiernan
Yes! That’s,, the one ! Take a look at my site. The paintings ” Colourfield from Above” have ruined a pair of my favourite Wrangler desert boots, I still have the blue paint on my body after two days, there is an awful lot of pink/ yellow on the tile of the cellar, even the cat got blue paws but… the painting is brilliant and the start of a whole new episode in my painting career. Elf, keep on giving the peoplethe confidence to do their thing and stuff convention.
Martin
Paul (Quixote)...
You said this best my friend. There are many, many folks who have struggled thru art school to a degree and are now driving a bus and working at a bank. Art is internal and as you said, it is about you and who you are and what you feel deep inside. Great piece.
michael byerley
“cause it’s not about them but about YOU” perfectly said !!!!!
Sharon Mau
It is a brilliant literary work. Aloha Elf, congratulations on your feature in Dimensions
Leon Walker
Speak your truth Elf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mariam Muradian
Love every truthful word!
I love the beginning…buy a canvas too big to fit in your car!
Amen!
Love to you & Caroline.
Elf Evans replied
In the old days, I tied them to the top of the roof. 6’ x 4’ and larger, the Hippy Days we did everything.
Estelle O'Brien
Bravo!
Carisma
So much insight and truth Elf ! Well said!