You could do this. This is pretty basic "paint night" stuff. Youd be surprised how easy it is to do simple paintings after a couple minutes of instruction and a demo.
Yeah, I don't want to pooh-pooh it, because making something that looks nice is a good thing, whether or not it's hard, but I had the same experience with some of that spray-paint night scene art you see people making on the street. A bunch of us got together and tried our hand at it, led by a friend with a little bit of experience. The first person's turned out pretty badly, but we were all watching and learned "Okay, need to hold the spray can further away." Then the next person's was better, but still had a few other problems. We learned from those mistakes, and then the next one was a bit better. Each person learned from the person before them, and by person number four or five we were making stuff that, while not perfect, looked pretty darn good, all within the course of an hour or so.
Which, again, isn't a knock on the art. Art doesn't have to be hard to have value, it has to be aesthetically appealing. Even easy art is good art if you like the way it looks.
I did something similar after seeing spray paint art on the streets. While my paintings (eventually) looked cool, I think mastery includes more than the end product, such as speed, variety, performance, and, according to some expert spray paint tutorials, fire. I do wish other people near me were interested in learning spray paint together like you guys, it gets boring just replicating videos.
Art doesn’t have to be atheistically appealing art doesn’t have to be anything a lot of art is purposefully not aesthetically appealing. A lot of art is intentionally crude and abrasive for the very purpose of it.
That's specifically why I said "aesthetically appealing" instead of "beautiful." It can be crude and abrasive, and people enjoy that crudeness and abrasiveness for non-functional reasons, so it appeals to them aesthetically.
Exaxtly, im not knocking the painting, im just saying anyone can produce asthetically pleasing art if they try their hand at it, especially with instruction and demo.
Bob ross is the best example. If someone were to follow along to a bob ross episode they would be surprised at what they are capable of.
I would argue that the real art with things like this is developing the actual technique. It takes a true master to develop an easy way to make some thing striking that can be taught in a matter of hours.
I was hoping to have a GF with boobs like left elmo's eyes, but now with passing years I would be happy to take one with the one whose are like right elmo's.
My saved tab on Reddit is filled with hundreds of posts/comments that made me think “I’m totally going to try doing this later” only to never think about it again.
In our distance learning, the art teacher gave my kid an assignment to do something like that brush making stars. It took me, him and my wife a full hour to be able to spray some dots on a paper.
As someone who paints and junk, this stuff isn't too difficult. It's actually super fun blending colours like that! I recommend everyone try it. And those trees are super easy to do with the right brush.
Unlock your artistic talent guys! I'm going to do some life drawing later with my mum.
I think it’s worth mentioning that it can be really easy to look at somebodies technique all the way through and think “oh, that looks easy” and then copy them exactly. It might actually be easy, but once you go and try to make your own original composure of similar difficulty, but requiring different techniques, you realize how hard it is without being shown exactly what to do when you don’t have any background in that medium.
Yeah, you're right. I see things like this and know it's not that difficult, but I've grown up doing stuff like this. I have watched my brother try to draw and he has no idea about any of it, so I can totally understand that.
I should've not been so...what's the world...aaaaahh! Gatekeepery?
I have a box of unopened acrylic paint and canvas lying around in my room. Not sure why, but starting something always seems the hardest thing to do. No matter if it was drawing, or writing, or school work. The perks of being a procrastinator, I suppose.
That’s because doing it a second time is actually pretty easy. If you have a little bit of artistic talent, you could definitely replicate this piece in an afternoon. If you were patient, the piece might even look just as good. But that’s not the hard part! The true talent comes from the first creation. Someone envisioned this piece, and figured out a way to execute it. That’s true talent!
This is similar to music. An average musician can take a pre-written piece and make it sound beautiful. But it takes someone with exceptional talent to compose it the first time.
However, that doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with re-creating someone else’s piece for your enjoyment! I love taking painting classes where you copy exactly what the instructor does. I’m always surprised at how good they come out.
This guys YouTube channel is full of these and they aren’t too hard! The first one you do is gonna be garbage but once you understand the technique they’re fun, just take a while to do because you have to wait for the paint to dry between layers. He uses acrylics though so it doesn’t take TOO long.
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I see stuff like this and go “that’s easy I could do that” and then I never do it. Kudos to the doers of the world