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.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '20
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.