Monday, November 12, 2007
ArtPact #37
Ah, I am such a procrastinating chicken!
Big busy times are over for now. I can paint for real, and stop escaping to these little sketches in front of the TV. no more excuses. On Friday, stretched 8 half-sheets of watercolor paper, all ready to go - - - and there I am, yet again, sketching from a photo I found in a magazine.
"It's only an exercise", I tell myself.
"Just for practicing", I assure me.
"It's not gonna come out good anyway", I plead to the little voice in me that keeps saying 'Stop it!'.
And it's not like I do not have enough photos of my own. Noooooooooooooo... I have plenty of those, taken with LumiB and her predecessors, and I keep taking more and more. And some of them are good! REALLY good!
So, why do I keep reverting to TV and magazines? I will never be able to show them at an exhibit or sell them, as they are actually someone else's art that I based mine on. So, does that fact make me feel less committed, thus more free, when I sketch or paint? Two of my favorite - and most successful - paintings were done from a photo I found online, or in a magazine. They both turned out incredible! Those who see them gasp "Ah, you just HAVE to enter these in a show!!!". And yet, alas, both can only be hung on our own walls.
With that in mind, why do I keep doing the same mistake over and over again? Am I just a repetitive idiot? (that is a rhetorical questiion. No need to answer it, thankyouverymuch).
OK then. I hereby decide, pledge and make a pact: from now on, I shall paint from my own photos only. No more wading in the shallow water comprising the comfort zone of uncommitment.
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Labels: Art, ArtPact, Damn Technology, Stating The Obvious
I LOVE these colors...even though she looks kinda grouchy.
Glad you have more time to do some of your favorite things.
# posted by 
: 11/12/2007 8:36 PM
And may the reprimanding gaze of disdain by the girl in this little sketch be my reminder.
I could use such a look!
Power to you, Nava. I hope you paint your own, wonderful musings and discover that best kind of joy and satisfaction.
And maybe, if you get a chance, hunt down the photographer of your favorite "borrowed" photo. Collaborate in a fate accompli, as it were.
L8!
I'm not the most versed in art litigation or art in general, but are you sure you couldn't exhibit and sell works based on images from other mediums? What about Warhol and all the stuff he copied? And didn't Duchamps once add a moustache to the Mona Lisa?
If you were in the holyland you shouldn't have any problem to present a paint based on media poto.
See the article published today in Ha'aretz:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=924117&contrassID=2&subContrassID=13&sbSubContrassID=7
# posted by : 11/15/2007 10:40 AM
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Glad you have more time to do some of your favorite things.
: 11/12/2007 8:36 PM I could use such a look!
Power to you, Nava. I hope you paint your own, wonderful musings and discover that best kind of joy and satisfaction.
And maybe, if you get a chance, hunt down the photographer of your favorite "borrowed" photo. Collaborate in a fate accompli, as it were.
L8!
See the article published today in Ha'aretz:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=924117&contrassID=2&subContrassID=13&sbSubContrassID=7
: 11/15/2007 10:40 AM 
