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.
V. Notes are daily–ish thoughts and ideas related to art. I might post a series of pictures, a technique, an idea for a project, or some philosophical rambling. I try to make these emails relevant, but they’re not pre-planned, and they’re not perfect. They’re just thoughts in the moment, take ’em or leave ’em. Hopefully they’ll spark some thoughts and help get your artistic …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! As difficult as it is to get painters to apply enough paint, it’s even harder to get them to take it back off again, unless they’re trying to rub out a mistake. The “Lift Up” or “Wipe Out” method is not for obliterating mistakes, it’s a fast way to …
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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