I know that I haven't been focusing on my art lately because school has been stressing me out so much. I've tried to ignore everything but the past few days I've let it all out and I've created some good strong pieces. As I've said before I need strong emotion to make my art. I can try and sit down and force myself to draw but I always end up hating it and throwing it away. And I suppose that's one of the 10 mistakes an art student can make. I hope to go to art school, I've never wanted anything more and I've come to realize every mistake is a happy accident that I need to learn from. I read the article "The Top 10 Mistakes Made by Art Students" and I have to say I'm guilty of every single one. A particular line caught my eye in the first paragraph, "If you don’t love making art, your subject selection will torment you. Art will become your demon: the subject you resent with a passion, instead of enjoy." Art is my passion, my muse and yet sometimes I swear it will be the death of me. When you have a block you feel like everything you've worked for just doesn't matter. It's hard to get past but it's worth it when it finally passes and you create something amazing. I'm also quite guilty of waiting too long to start. I'm doing that right now with my senior project. I want to get it done but I can't bring myself to do it. Sometimes when I do finally start I end up starting over again and again. Over the past couple months I have learned to stop throwing away everything I do and work with what I come up with the first time. I've noticed that lately I've been using more color in my art and I don't know how I feel about that yet but I'm up for trying new things. But I think that we can all agree the vain of every art students life is procrastination. I suffer from this quite dramatically and often. I know I need to get myself together if I'm ever going to survive in college.
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Sabrina NewcombJust a struggling high school artist Archives
May 2016
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