Today’s podcast episode is about the misheld beliefs of being an artist. These are those strange perceptions that non-artists have about how an artist should look, act or be.
Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS
Some of the things we discuss in the Podcast
How when you are older you may
- The perception that you have to be young to be an artist
- That you have to have gone to art college to be a successful artist
- You have to be able to draw brilliantly and have formal training in drawing
- Everything you paint/draw must be successful
- You can paint, draw or sketch anything, effortlessly and without reference
- You have to be represented by a gallery
- You have to have won an award
- You have to have a big following on Social Media
- You have to know art history
- You have to paint with oil paints
- You have to have big stories or meaning behind your work
- You have to be good at painting in any medium
- You have to be loose
- You have to know anatomy to draw people
- I am sure if you know anatomy it’s helpful if you want to create highly realist
- You are painting all day, every day
- You have to be selling your work and better still, selling art alone to make your living
- And then there’s the complete opposite belief that to be an artist you have to be ‘starving’ … Well, which is it?
- You have to use long words, say ‘yah’ instead of yes, be pretentious or pretend to be
- You have to ‘look like’ or ‘dress like’ an artist, constantly clutching a portfolio
- You have to live in London, New York or a major city
- You have to mix in a circle of other artists
- You have to be a bit odd/traumatised
The reality is, all you need to do, to be an Artist, is to make art!
Also mentioned in the podcast
The Kick in the Creative’s first course – How to Use Water Soluble Wax Pastels
Support us on Kofi
This week’s creative question
Q. What is your dream creative project?
The best answers will be read out on a future podcast.
You can Tweet us your answers @KickCreatives or let us know in the Facebook Group, which by the way if you haven’t already joined, I highly recommend that you do! We will put the question up there and also on the facebook page… and of course, on our Instagram page @kickinthecreatives.
If you have any suggestions for the podcast or our challenges please feel free to get in touch.
.
Subscribe to our Youtube channel and click the notifications bell to be alerted on all our new videos.
Trackbacks/Pingbacks