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"I fancy painting something"

At my school I was given absolutely no experience in Music and Art. I was in a moron class with teachers who didn't care anymore and all the equipment was dead. This has made me feel slightly bitter over the years but alas I have managed to teach myself some musical stuff over the years.

Now I was watching some Art program at 3 in the morning one night and I was looking at all these classical paintings and actually started to appreciate things in an arty farty way. Then I walked about the art gallery which is about 10 metres away from my lectures going " Oooooh ahhhhhh ".

However, I have no idea what to do. Are there any artists amongst us forum people? Got tips? Like I dunno, cutting off my ear and living in poverty forever?

*vomits*

Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> paint your willy

Ah lovely the feel of the paintbrush :D

Why not?

Why the cocktail glass?

SHEEPY wrote:
> I have this image of me buying a canvas and all that then all I can
> draw is a stickman with a sword.

[URL]http://images.kingdomofloathing.com/otherimages/leftswordguy.gif[/URL]

paint your willy

I might do a picture soon as well which is really strange. But I need to think what I can do for it.

If you've got the urge but don't know what to do then I suggest you go in search of some inspiration.

Start with something fairly simple, like a still life or even a landscape painting. But if you really want it to work, you have to make it personal. It has to be of something you can look at and really appreciate. Something you feel for, the thing that makes you go "Ahhhhhh" in the first place.

You may be able to find it in your own home, you may not.

I was never terribley brilliant at this in my previous non-out-going ways so all the best of luck to you anyways.

Try entering something useless like a bag of rubbish into the Turner Prize competition you're bound to win.

Black Glove wrote:

> One of this year's Turner Prize exhibits is this: Someone's
> dismantled a shed, built a boat out of the wood, sailed somewhere,
> and when they got there, dismantled the boat and built a shed again,
> then stuck the paddle on the side. Art or just mad carpentry?

did you see the exhibit in the tate modern of the detonated shed?
someone blew their shed up and videotaped it all from loads of angles, they then chose a specific time in the explosion and hung the debris from wires in the exact position it was in at said point.. so you're walking through a split second of exploded shed.

pretty cool, but having said that, i'd have lived my life just as merrily if i'd never seen it. i don't see how people can take most "art" seriously, it's getting to the point where the works being produced feel like they're ideas that everyone has thought of doing as a joke, but with the added binus of some scruffy gimp and a camp dude trying to convince us that "it's a commentary on *subject goes here* "