Whatever you have is fine. Really. You don’t need to feel bad or unprepared if you don’t have a #6 brush. You don’t need it. What you need is around you, at your feet. You need that scrap of paper from the bin, the broken plate, the corner of your dirty shirt, and some beet juice from your dinner.
You need cold coffee, a used paper towel, and the back of an electric bill.
You need a pencil.
If possible, a pen.
You need the newspaper, a magazine, and some glue. No glue? Mix some water with squished up sushi rice. Egg?
The artists we admire, they had less than we have on our worst of days. What they had was time, and solitude.
Today’s challenge is to draw using a disposable fork. This may at first seem odd and awkward, but if you think about it, a fork offers instant parallel crosshatch marks, saving you the time and trouble of drawing each line individually! Efficient. For this exercise, I recommend you avoid relying on outlines to describe the …
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As a genre, daily paintings tend to use high contrast colors and values that translate well to the internet, and have very easy subject matter for buyers (still lifes, landscapes, pets). Posted online, these artists get instant feedback on their work. They know within 24 hours what subject matter, colors, and styles attract the most …
Materials, a manifesto
Whatever you have is fine. Really. You don’t need to feel bad or unprepared if you don’t have a #6 brush. You don’t need it. What you need is around you, at your feet. You need that scrap of paper from the bin, the broken plate, the corner of your dirty shirt, and some beet juice from your dinner.
You need cold coffee, a used paper towel, and the back of an electric bill.
You need a pencil.
If possible, a pen.
You need the newspaper, a magazine, and some glue. No glue? Mix some water with squished up sushi rice. Egg?
The artists we admire, they had less than we have on our worst of days. What they had was time, and solitude.
Oh.
Editor’s note: This includes art classes. Materials lists are as optional as yeast in your bread, evidently.
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