Why I don't enjoy doing realistic art anymore 🎨 Draw & chat with me!
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2024
- Hey guys! In this video I'll be showing you the process of this Pan Pastel and Coloured Pencil coffee cup painting on Clairefontaine Pastelmat while chatting all about art, getting stuck with details and why I don't enjoy realistic art anymore!
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Amber, I'm really sad that you've only just 'discovered' the joyous adventure of colour, and I'm really glad glad, glad that you _have_ found it now!
I think it does take time to break away from the kind of art you were doing, so be kind to yourself with that. I think, too, that eventually you'll discover that 'realism' doesn't have to be tightly rendered detail, but can be imaginative and free. 'Realism' just means that it looks like the 'real thing', but it doesn't need a lot of detail to achieve that. It can be done wth just a few lines!
Changing colours, choosing what you put in and what you leave out of your work is what makes it fun. If people want 'real', hey, they can just take a photo! After all, I think the majority now has a mobile phone with a camera.
If they want it mega-realistically drawn, well, they can buy some tracing paper and trace it for themselves. It isn't hard - it just takes a bit of time and patience. But you, as an artist, you can do whatever 'talks to you', and no-one's going to know that you moved that clock tower across to the other side of the picture, and made it say 10 to 10 instead of 9.15, or that the shop awning and paintwork was a dull brown, and you've changed it to a lively pink! Or that the person walking down the street was carrying a heavy basket and you've given it a back pack or nothing at all - all that is up to us, the artist.
Also, remember when you show your work to someone, never point out your 'mistakes'. Hold tight to your tongue and listen to them - they aren't going to notice these things, and even if they do, you can just shrug and say, with a smile or a grin, "Well I like it like that!"
When I was a beginner, a passing stranger saw what I was painting and wanted to buy the finished product. I suggested that she came back in a couple of hours and see if she still wanted it. When I had finished, she did come back. I wasn't happy with it, but she loved it, paid for it and went away with it and a huge smile on her face! A good lesson learned!
Hope something here is useful? 🤗
I truly love this piece Amber, coffee and the color blue are my two absolute favorites! 😍
Ah thank you so much! 😊 I also love coffee and the colour blue 🩵 But purple beats it for me 💜😄
Great chat Amber.! As a burnt-out semi retired magic realist artist I now paint what I want for pleasure..mostly small watercolour works . Love now to do wonky perspectives and lìnes and paint with waterbrushes. I used to do large acrylic paintings.. and painted tiny details in my work. It was not worth getting repetitive strain in juries and damaging my eyesight. Younger artists should be aware. I loved impressionist art as art student but got into realist commercial and fine art. Thanks for video..❤ your work. Take care. From Canada 😊
Hi Ann! Thank you so much for your comment, sorry I’m so late getting back to you! Sounds like we have similar experiences going from tight details to wonky lines! I can’t explain how much better and more excited I am to create these days. I used to dread my art. Even though I was proud of what I completed in the end I hated the actual process. Now I love the unknown process of lines and shapes and colour 😍👏🏻 I also had a friend who got eye problems from her realism art. I didn’t even think of it at the time!
Take care of yourself, thanks again for your lovely comment and for watching my video - Amber 💜x
That's lovely
Thank you!
I would love to try those pan pastels, but here in Brazil they're a little too expensive... beautiful work dear ❤❤❤
Thank you! 💜 They are also quite expensive here! I have had mine for a few years, I’m glad I got them for Christmas because I probably wouldn’t buy them now! 😅 Thanks so much for watching xx
Loving the chat, Amber. As one of them 'realistic artists' I absolutely understand what you mean by not wanting to be a realistic artist anymore. I have, personally, found a way to be a bit of both, but I almost always prefer the realism as I really love the process of replicating all those pesky details! Hahaha.
I am loving following along on your journey.
Thanks H! 😘 Even when I think I fancy a bit of realism I get bored pretty much as soon as I start on something! But it’s so hard to just let go of those details. I think it comes from the way we view our references! Or at least the way I do. I get caught up in tiny areas rather than focusing on the bigger picture…. Perhaps I should take this knowledge with me in real life too! 🤣 I’m so glad you’re here xx
Thanks for this -- as a hobby artist of many years who, tbh, is not good at drawing "realistically", I defend your position. If somebody has those kinds of skills and that's what they want to put them to, great, have at it and enjoy your success. I've followed such artists in the past. But to slave over a painting/sketch in a vain (in both senses of the word) attempt to make it look like a photograph is honestly rather silly. Not my words, but those of an entire cohort of art instructors who point out that, "You wanna make your art look like a photograph? Okay, go learn to be photographer!" No apologies, no worries.
This is a funny subject and can stir lots of emotions up in people! From where I stand as long as the artist is enjoying what they are creating then that’s all that matters. For example, I don’t like or want to go fishing for hours and hours, but I wouldn’t think bad of anyone who does it because it’s something they enjoy! Just because I don’t understand the want for it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do it. That would be insane. I have lots of friends who are realistic artists and one of them said they just enjoy the process of getting lost for hours replicating a photograph. They find it relaxing. And we all need things we find relaxing so I say go for it!
I just want so much more than that for myself and my art now. It’s definitely a harder journey because it’s all very unknown! You don’t know what your art will look like once you start.. Whereas with realism you know exactly how it should/will look! Anyway thanks for your comment I really enjoy this kind of conversation with people! 😁
Do you use a fixative? Such a great piece ☕️
Thank you! 😁 Yes I do, I use Spectrafix fixative for any Pan pastel work! A couple of sprays at the end and sometimes half way through a picture. I like Spectrafix because it doesn’t leave big splatters on my picture or change the colours!
@@Little_Ammy_Arts Thanks -- this the "other" discussion when it comes to PP. Some pros say, "Never" to spraying their pastel paintings and others swear by using fixative sprays. Having ruined more than one piece I was proud of by splotching it with a liquid that was supposed to preserve it, I'm interested in your experience with that product. 🙂
Interesting! Well, I tried pan pastels on Canson mi tientes touch paper and sprayed it with my beloved Spectrafix fixative and it left splatter marks all over it! Not on Pastelmat though (my favourite paper for pan pastels) I find it to be absolutely fine to spray fixative on. I’ve only tried the Spectrafix though. And I used it for years on my commissions with no problems at all! (Any big splatters could easily be fixed by simply tapping them with my finger, then they just dried invisible!) It definitely seems to depend on the paper in my experience! hope this helps 😁