Drawings almost every day by Romney David Smith and Tarragon Smith. Occasionally paintings or etchings or silkscreens. Or whatever else catches our fancy.
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
Important lesson for artists To make it at all as an artist, other artists have to remember you. To really make it as an artist, other artists have to remember you and your work (regardless of their estimation of its quality). If artists don't know you, you will fail.
There was one caveat. If you are failing as an artist, show up and make yourself known. Complaining is one of many strategies.
These drawings may be unfinished and unrefined, they benefit from a fluency in mark-making and an adherence to observation. A relatively accurate portrayal of the figure, no matter how simple, gives reality and credibility to a quick, expressive drawing. hb
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Important lesson for artists
ReplyDeleteTo make it at all as an artist, other artists have to remember you.
To really make it as an artist, other artists have to remember you and your work (regardless of their estimation of its quality).
If artists don't know you, you will fail.
There was one caveat.
If you are failing as an artist, show up and make yourself known. Complaining is one of many strategies.
JB
These drawings may be unfinished and unrefined, they benefit from a fluency in mark-making and an adherence to observation. A relatively accurate portrayal of the figure, no matter how simple, gives reality and credibility to a quick, expressive drawing.
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