I really need to tackle the garden, which has become enormously wild and woolly this year. I just couldn't find the motivation for it somehow
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It is refreshing to see someone move towards creating art by taking lessons, actually putting in the work and practicing. Every fifth of our volunteers is "an aspiring artist" who has no craft and has mastered no technique of any sort and is not trying to but is big on "my own vision" and "expressing myself" and "works of art" that require zero technique or effort (but need a whole lot of bullshit to accompany them).
I don't know much about painting but I think you improved a lot in the last year.
I believe that high-end award-winning modern art often favours the type of art that involves little craft and a great deal of bullshit, but I don't think it's possible to do that from rural Cornwall, and even if it was, I wouldn't want to.
I think all the practice I've been doing has made a difference, but I feel there's still some way to go. I think if one actually expects people to pay money for things, they need to be either a) things that they must have but really can't/don't want to do for themselves (this is what I've spent the last 20 years doing) or b) things that some people look at and think : WOW! I WANT THAT enough to pay money for it.
There's definitely an argument that bullshit can go quite a way to convincing people that b is true, but it's got to be easier if b is also of a really high standard.
Even when it comes to bullshit, I think that practice matters. You need to be totally devoted to it and almost live it and essentially turn it into a craft (which requires work and practice) if you want to make it interesting to anyone. Just bullshitting every now and then on top of a couple of beads on a string or a couple of rainbow smudges on canvas won't cut it even with bullshit. I believe that there is no way out of hard work and long hours of practice. Even when it comes to bullshit.
You make a good point there! Makes me feel oddly better about the Emperor's New Clothes element in art: there is no question that those people are living their bullshit and putting work into making it a craft! :-D
Rosie reminds me a little of the style of Pauline Baynes, in a very good way. Molly and Az are very expressive. The one of Finrod and Celebrimbor dancing does capture the slightly startling energy of the scene in the story. I liked the ending of the Elrohir story, especially that bit where Celegorm is doing Watcher therapy but I need to go back and read the thing as a whole at some point.
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I love the summer Rosie, and also the autumn one walking delicately.
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I don't know much about painting but I think you improved a lot in the last year.
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I think all the practice I've been doing has made a difference, but I feel there's still some way to go. I think if one actually expects people to pay money for things, they need to be either
a) things that they must have but really can't/don't want to do for themselves (this is what I've spent the last 20 years doing)
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b) things that some people look at and think : WOW! I WANT THAT enough to pay money for it.
There's definitely an argument that bullshit can go quite a way to convincing people that b is true, but it's got to be easier if b is also of a really high standard.
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Molly and Az are very expressive.
The one of Finrod and Celebrimbor dancing does capture the slightly startling energy of the scene in the story.
I liked the ending of the Elrohir story, especially that bit where Celegorm is doing Watcher therapy but I need to go back and read the thing as a whole at some point.
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Anton is a handsome chap!
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