Jun 07 2008
About painting, medium and style.
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Medium is nothing more than a vehicle. It must always be fun and I’m not saying don’t experiment, rather experiment with developing your skills first. Again, it’s old fashioned and probably cliché but you really need to walk before you can run. I know it doesn’t sound like it but there can be a huge amount of fun in that.
It’s an old fashioned concept I know but the first medium or tool that is essential to master in creating art is your hand. Once you have learned to control your hand and your hand eye coordination you will have the freedom to do just about anything you want and will then naturally gravitate to the medium(s) that serve you the best.
I will go into this more fully in subsequent posts but the real value in producing a work of art is in the proccess of creating the work itself. The artwork, no matter how successful, is a byproduct of that proccess.
P.S. Don’t pay too much attention to style. That will also develop naturally and is a product of self. By that I mean that style is more an indication of who you are and how you feel about what you are creating. You may find your style developing into the style of an artist whose work you relate to and this is not necessarily a problem.
Originality can be overrated. Picasso’s first words after viewing the ancient and primitive cave paintings in the south of France were that nothing is new under the sun. Complete originality in our world is impossibility. At least in art anyway. The best you can hope for is a melding of that which has gone before us.
There are many that will say; hold on, that’s not right! To that I can only say Sorry, it is but because so much has gone on before us the combinations and possibilities are endless and that’s a very good thing.
Quite aside from the effect that the work of another artist has on you is that we all live in society we are all profoundly affected by our surroundings. No matter how you see your work, it is in fact governed to a large degree by what you see, feel and hear in everyday life and much of that on a very unconscious level.
The long and the short of it is don’t worry about “style”. Be true to yourself and get on with having a good time and style will take care of itself naturally.
Murray Hubick
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