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[keristars]

it really frustrates me that i love art (2-d, 3-d, digital, folkart, all of it), and i really enjoy making art, especially collage, but i am completely unable to articulate what exactly i like or how i feel about certain things, and when it comes to making my own stuff, i don't know how to go from the abstract feelings in my head to something

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[keristars]

this is a link to a photo of my favorite of my paintings, though in an unfinished stage (the finished version has small, filled-in blue stars on the far right, maybe five or six of them, and skewed and off-center and stuff to match the ones on the left) I like it because of the simplicity of the elements, the strong colors (the orange is more vibrant and less of a pumpkin tone in reality), and the stars (I love stars).

I love painting. I've only used acrylics, but I really like the steps involved in using them. Thank you for the recommendations, I'm going to see if I can get them from the library! And the 1920s is probably my favorite decade for art - I did take a two-part art history survey course and really liked it, but it didn't help me much with articulating what it is about Art Nouveau or Art Deco (my favorite genres, but I also like early modern - the very stylized stuff - though I love a lot of others, too - I went to the Musee d'Orsay no less than 3 times when I spent two weeks in Paris, and I only went to the Louvre for one afternoon :P) that appeals to me so strongly, so I'm not really sure which bits I like to extract to use for myself. That semester we were rushed through the 20th century in art, though, so that might be why.

Thank you for the book recommendations. :)