One day discovered "the Joy of Painting with bob Ross" on Twitch.
"I can do that! It look so easy!"
It wasn't. One too many "Happy Little Accidents" and here we are.
I splash paint because that's where things ended up. I started out with Bob Ross style landscapes. The clouds specifically. And somehow, naturally went through, what I thought were my own, ideas. Barnet Newman's zips being the first original idea i thought I had.
I started getting canvas really wet and dragging paint around the water with sticks and ruined brushes to make patterns when it all dried. But only in small areas of other paintings. Flicking paint. throwing it. Then I found an online course from MoMA that exposed me to Pollock. Which I had never seen. So I gave it a go. It looks nice.
People told me "Abstract expressionism is Played out". What makes something "played out"? I'm not a big fan of subjective art, I don't know why, I just don't care for it.
Isn't that the whole point of "modern art"? "I like this, but I don't know why, but I hate that for the same reason.
I'm also trying my hand at minimalism, which is SOOOO difficult. 3 perfectly formed strokes, the same, but somehow different. I can't bring myself to say "that'll do".... That's why my pictures generally weigh... Too much.
The way my paintings finish, are never influenced by anything other than the moment. They all begin from drawings with the intent of reproducing the drawing - or at least the basic idea.
Not a single one is a true representation of the drawing or idea, that it started as.
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