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 Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:51 pm
Now, I'm not just going to narrow the term "art" to painting and drawing. I mean ANYTHING that is of the arts, be it literature, performing arts, musical talent, etc.
Who has changed your outlook on the art of your choice? Did someone incourage/discourage you in high school? Did you have a mentor or teacher you met after dinner to hone your skills? Maybe there's a professor out there who has taught you everything you think is worth knowing. Perhaps there's another person you just want to punch in the face for tainting your love of the arts.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:19 am
I failed art in kindergarden b/c I couldn't mix colors. Its just not fair, I mean I'm colorblind, of course I can't mix colors. I had that art teacher all through grade school. I hated art.
In my senior year of high school I had to take a class to fill an hour and a friend wanted me to take art with him so I did. They started this program where artists from the community take turns teaching the class. There were two who had a real imapct on me. One worked with clay and absolutely inspired my love of 3d art. He had some vision loss too, which made me feel better about "blind people and art" He taught me to spin clay, and that was positively the most fun thing I've ever done. I made so many beautiful things in his class. He'd let me spend as much time on a project as I wanted, even when the clay was so dry I could barely work it. I made animal mostly. We sold some of our stuff in a real art show, I made a crocodile, it was so lifelike, you'd think a two foot croc was just lying on the table. SOmeone bought it for $500 I got all of it and bout a game system. The other artist was a painter, she was fantastic. SHe taught me a lot about perspective and deminsion, which is hard without depth perception. Its becase of her that I started drawing again. I speckialize in black white and gray stuff, but do color sometimes. She showed ma ll kinds of neat evvect that don't require and color, and made me feel ok about getting color wrong sometimes. She just pointed out that its mine and if I want it to be different than what's expected, then that's my perogative. Those two people are a couple of my many heroes.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:56 pm
Wow, that's really awesome. If ever I lost my eyesight, I think I would lose my will to live...Art is my life, and if I couldn't see it, I wouldn't probably take some sleeping pills and drink a bottle of wine and sleep forever crying
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:58 am
I don't mind not seeing as well as others in my art. SOmetimes it frustrates me that I have the skill but not the ability to do some things to make some nice pics, but that usually doesn't last very long.
I jst got a brand new awesome light board with bunches of programs, and I can't use it yet because my computer is in another city and this one has a messed up disk drive. This sucks.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:51 am
i can draw a little. uasually its land scapes and animal because i faliz at people.
My talent lies more with music. ever since i was little i was involved with music when i was 4 my aunt taught me basse and basic piano. Then there was a woman from my grandpas church taht thaught me piano through grade school i wasn't that great at it but oh well. grade 7 and 8 i played the flute i got the highest mark out of everyone in that class. in high school i went back to piano becasue i hated the flute but then in grade 11 i switched to alto saxaphone in music class and played taht in the band. in grade 12 they offered a guitar class so i took that now I'm in 3rd year university and still playing guitar and keyboard every once in a while on the side.
I think my main influences were and always have been my family both my mother and her sister played music growing up so they were very encouraging when i showed interest in it. They were supportive I also think taht my highschool teaches was an influence as well because she put up with me for 5 years and never once did she not encourage me to try something new infact when i tried that something new i often did exceptionally well in it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:27 pm
I played a lot of instruments in school too. I played all the orchestral instruments in middle school. In high school I learned the alto sax, oboe, trumpet, organ, piano, drums, and guitar. Now I can read and play music for all of them. I'm currently a keyboarder in a Christian Praise band. It sounds lame, but we do have a lot of catchy songs.
I didn't really have musical encouragement as a child. When I wante dto try something my parents were fine with it, they even bought me a viola and a nice keyboard. I just never had a real driving force to music except that I like it and I like math, which has a lot to do with it.
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