ART
WHAT DEFINES ART IS SO SUBJECTIVE THAT IT TOOK ME YEARS TO BE ABLE TO EVEN PRETEND WHAT I DO COULD IN ANY WAY BE PERCEIVED AS ART AND THEN I DISCOVERED THE CONCEPT OF 'MY ART' AND ALL THAT CHANGED.
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1,000 Followers Later
Imagine if that 1,000 followers referred to this lonely website! Well it doesn’t. It actually refers to my Instagram art account (link is in the right hand side panel). I reached this dizzying height on September 7th, much to my surprise. As I’ve discussed elsewhere (But Is It Art?), I never expected anyone to be remotely interested in what I produce and so I’m delighted and embarrassed in equal measure that people have spared the time in their busy lives to check out my stuff. Just in case you don’t have an Instagram account I thought I’d add a gallery here to show off my art posts from Instagram. Please remember these are examples of hobby art, self-taught and very subjective. Click on the thumbnail to see the whole image. I’d love to hear your views in…
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The Artful Dodger
ENCOURAGEMENT Following a conversation late last year with Granddaughter #2 about her love of art and plans for the future, I was a little surprised at her reticence to show off her work online the way so many young people do, especially since she planned on a career involving art. She is reasonably confident in the art she produces and receives praise all the time from her family and teachers, so the reaction made little sense to me at the time. We talked about the need for her to build an art portfolio to secure her desired place in further education and eventually employment, but still she was shying away from showing off her work. So I said I would set up a social media account dedicated to showing the world my “art” if she would post…
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But Is It Art?
When I added an ‘Art’ category to this website I was being hugely optimistic and fully intended getting deeper into art. I’ve been making ‘art’ ever since I could hold a crayon in my pudgy hand, just like every other kid, but nobody ever thought of what I was making as art – not even my mother and face it mothers are the best promoters and general PR person a kid could possibly have. I can’t criticise them because I never considered what I did as art either, maybe something on the way to art or at least the beginnings of a journey that might see the production of art towards its end. On reflection we were all wrong. Okay I’m not claiming what I make is good art but, even based on the dictionary definition of…
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MY REDBUBBLE REVOLUTION
Okay I realise everybody at some stage looks at other peoples art and says to themselves “I could do that”. Sometimes we’re so off track that as soon as we try we realise it’s a non-runner, but then sometimes that’s all we need to recognise our own ‘art’ is quite good, in its own way. It took me years, no decades, to be comfortable enough to think that what I do could be considered art and when I did I wanted to share my enjoyment of the whole process. Once I got over my artistic stagefright I thought I’d dip my toe in the world of using my designs as something to share with the world on Things and that led me to Redbubble. It was my own little Redbubble Revolution. Now I’m about to start adding…
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DOODLES
I’m a Doodler. That’s it I’ve admitted it. It’s out there. I can’t say I like to draw because it’s not drawing – they aren’t good enough to be called drawings – and they’re rarely finished, but they do qualify as doodles.
