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Be resourceful. You can use pots and pans as musical instruments. You can draw on xerox paper for starters with ink, crayons, thick markers, or fine pens. You don't need a stage to dance on, you can dance in the driveway.
If you want to paint, then paint on any object. Experiment with different surfaces to paint on such as canvas, foam core, cardboard, Plexiglas, or any flat surface that you can find. Great art can be made on the parking-lots of corporate banks, company car windshields, or on police station walls, if you're sure you won't be harming anyone. You can find paintbrushes for low prices, but make sure you have a good variety of sizes and widths and shapes of bristles. It's good to have new brushes. It's also good to have old brushes, which can provide good painterly effects at times.
If you want to paint, try using media other than oil paint or water colors. Sand, mud, sweat, bile, and other bodily fluids make extraordinary stains on some substances. Acrylic paint is recommended as a good mixing agent with these substances.
Do you still want to paint? Ok, you can also use flat latex house paint to mix with any acrylic colors. Beware of tempera paints. Even if the tempera paint has dried, and then is exposed to water or moisture, tempera paint can "bleed" its color and potentially ruin your piece of art. You can paint acrylic paint on top of the tempera, as well as on top of dried oil paint or water color. There really aren't any rules with paint, you can mix them all together and see what happens. But I will try not to overcomplicate the basic steps of painting.
Try painting on an easel. Then try painting on a friend or colleague. Try painting on a table; let gravity move the paint. Try painting outdoors on a lawn. Keep experimenting. Paint your mind's interior. Then paint its exterior, but only in your imagination. Then try expensive computer equiptment. With the permission of the owner, of course.
Make sure you are in the right state of mind too. Make sure you have eaten a well-balanced diet for the day. Take multivitamins if you can. Try consuming freshly-made fruit and vegetable juice, you will find amazing energy this way. If you like, have tea or a good cup of coffee. The more focused you are the better. If you get exhausted doing any kind of art, take your eyes off your work, and perhaps take a bike ride.
Be aware of atmospheric conditions. Acrylic paint dries fast in hot or warm weather. You can bake the acrylic paint on your desired surface in direct sunlight, then ten minutes later or so, you can paint more layers or whatever designs you feel like doing.
Use tape, a tape machine, and a microphone if you want to make prefabricated soundscapes to encapsulate sections of the political environment. Radio broadcasts, as well as atmospheric sound at your workplace or school, can be great sources for samples. A multi-track recorder will allow you to combine and overlap sonic elements in interesting ways; try replicating sounds in both digital and analog formats in order to experiment with quality degradation.
Make sure you are in the right state of mind. Make sure you have eaten a well-balanced diet for the day. Take multivitamins if you can. Try consuming freshly-made fruit and vegetable juice; you will find amazing energy this way. If you like, have tea or a good cup of coffee. The more focused you are, the better. (See wikihow "How to Think.") If you get exhausted doing any kind of art, take your eyes off your work, and perhaps take a bike ride, visit an old-folks home, or visit a chemical factory and interview managers about their environmental practices. You may also want to interview the police -- no one ever asks them any questions? Ask them about civil liberties. Ask them about gum laws in singapore. Ask them things that a child would ask.
Try creative writing about your experience with your art or with people or whatever you want to write about. Try this from day to day. Feel free, express yourself any way you want.
Be open to criticism about your art, and be open to praise. Both are difficult to hear in a truly magnificient way. But you need to hear these things.
Think of figures, figurelessness, abstractions, abstract faces, realistic faces, realistic houses, unrealistic houses, landscapes, emotionscapes, still-lifes, human-lives, or anything that emerges from within you.
You don't have to spend much when you are recycling most of your materials. Sculpt with scraps of wood from your local lumber yard scrap box. You can get some nails, a hammer, and a variety of glue brands. It's more fun to find objects to make art from than it is to buy hundreds of dollars worth of materials. Look in dumpsters at the art store for materials; I find materials all the time that way. I even look in construction dumpsters in the street. I made about a dozen large and small sculptures from wooden parts that I found in dumpsters.
You don't have to spend much when you are recycling most of your materials. It's more fun to find objects to make art from than it is to buy hundreds of dollars worth of materials. Look in dumpsters at the art store for materials; I find materials all the time that way. I even look in construction dumpsters in the street. I made about a dozen large and small sculptures from wooden parts that I found in dumpsters.
Have a base to hold up what your are mounting for sculpting. You will need a 4"x4" post or 2"x4" wooden planks to nail to the base plank. Then you add whatever form of a sculpture that you want. The form could be for instance a large mask. Let your intuition guide you when you are making any kind of art.
So what are you waiting for?
[edit] TipsYou can experiment with any kind of sexuality, any kind of power-dynamic, any kind of aesthetic, and any kind of moral universe, that you want to. In the end, you have to live in the world, but if you make a commitment to the world 'as you make it', then you will discover that having to live in the world is perhaps a lesser restriction than one might otherwise think.
Back to painting, for a moment: make sure you have a well-ventilated area so you don't get cancer from the toxicity in the paint fumes.
Beware with metal sculpting, or the manufacture of metal musical instruments. I know of two metal sculptors who lost their voices from overexposure to the metals. In metal sculpture, very often one has to be very close to the metallic toxins while bonding the metals. These metal toxins can be inhaled easily; wear an oxygen mask and proper goggles. Also, you can easily burn yourself under these conditions. Wear heavily guarded clothing and protect your neck area most especially. Beware of other people walking by and around you while under these potentially dangerous and hazardous conditions. If you can, do these activities outdoors and away from flammable objects and materials.
Also, make sure if you are doing some kind of large installation that you don't have the heaviness of that piece of art land on your head or body and cause injury or death. I had a famous art teacher who died in India while doing an installation, which apparently landed on her. Or she landed on it. Or maybe it was old age.
Thick and tough gloves will protect your hands from excessive gooieness, if you're a beginner and you don't like gooieness. They can also prevent you getting cut by a handheld saw, a handheld razor blade, or sharp knife. I had five stitches on my thumb because I wasn't paying attention once. I was opening a can of spaghettios, but it might have happened while making art, too...you never know. Are you cutting? Then always make sure you are cutting away from your body and away from others.
Wear old clothing so you don't mess up your "good" clothes. You might want to wear an old pair of shoes also. Once your old clothes are really messed up, you can begin wearing them to formal occasions, so that people will know you are an artist.
Make sure kids and dogs and other pets don't impede the making of your art. I once backed up to see a painting better and kicked a bucket of paint on a good carpet. Then I listened to a David Wilcox song called "Leave it Like it Is," and I realized things aren't so bad.
Getting organized can be fun, but it can also be fun to work in a disorderly fashion. To be organized, keep your art materials, and especially your 'sharp objects', including your sharp witty inner nature, in places where you or someone else will not cut themselves accidentally. It's a hassle to have to go to the emergency room at the hospital to get stitches and have that hand useless for two weeks. Unless that's your thing.
Be thankful for what you have as a human being. Be thankful if you have use of your hands and feet and everything else. Choose a being to thank: who gave you your humanity? Was it the governor? Was it your neighbor's 15-year-old daughter? Was it an onion shaped like a loaf of bread? Thank profusely.
Avoid expressing "yourself" -- the self is an illusion. But have the guts to express +something+.
Life is propelled by imbalances. Go on some kind of adventure. Go to a concert and sing along in different keys. Go to your local zoo and draw the animals. Then sing along with the animals in different keys. Visit a botanical garden. Go to the beach and swim, and then draw or paint your genitals as though they were still in the ocean, without you. Draw them having fun. Then draw yourself having fun without them.
Visit art museums.
Take art classes, such as, drawing, painting, sculpting, collage, photography, or any other class that will inspire you individually and for your art projects.
Play scrabble.
Take courses in economics, seismology, cybernetics, and discrete systems logic. Take classes in pop culture, and medieval rhetoric. Take art classes that will inspire you individually and for your art projects.
Read books offline.
Use search engines at random, using terms that occur to you spontaneously.
Be a purpose in life.
Be a dolphin in life.
Be a reason in life.
Be a currant in life.
[edit] WarningsDo not steal anything that you have not been given permission to steal. Do not murder anyone whom you have not been given legal authority to murder. Do not make art. Art is self. Self is Dada. Make dada. Inmates are waiting.
Make sure you don't spill paint or turpentine or gesso in the house of God. Pick sunny days, perhaps, to paint outside. Put drop-cloths down in one part of the house, and paint in another.
Maybe your artworks will sell for millions of dollars. Make hundreds of originals that your relatives or friends can pass on for centuries and that can appreciate in value because of your brilliance. |
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