We love your description of style as an "organic and living" expression of the artist's authentic vision! We think people new to art often look at style as a superficial flourish or motif that is required to create a "brand" for their work, and can make it hard to develop essential skills and sensitivities. There are many successful artists with instantly recognizable mannerisms to their work, but it's mostly in the eye of the viewer that those qualities coalesce into a "style", and often because of how the work is presented as a body, by museum curators and gallery owners.
I think you found your style the right way: just draw and paint and, however it turns out, that's your style. Some artists are too focused on trying to put some kind of marker or identifier in their brushstrokes and pencil marks.
YES, YES & YES on all 3 points. Your natural style develops from making a lot of work, and that is the same in every art form..... just like your signature and handwriting will have changed from when you were 10 to when you are 30. As for copying other artists, painters and art critics seem to be the only ones to really get in a twist about this. No one ever complains that Springsteen started out copying the work of Dylan when he first started to write songs. Everything we learn as a child is from copying what we see. Another great video.
Very interesting, I can really relate to everything what you explain in this video. Thanks for the very good ideas for developing our own style. As for the definition of style, I would say it is a coherence throughout all your artwork that make people know it was painted by you. Many artists told me it took them many years to find their own style.
When you copy another artist, you walk in their shoes, you experience their challenges, you see how your palette makes the secondary grays automatically, nothing could be more valuable.
Good point! I often paint on flat panels, and I’ve put some small shelves up in my studio to set them on while drying. I don’t use very thick paint, so they are usually touch-dry in a week or two :)
4:30 all the pretentious youtube artists or ones that get pissed at someone for doing master copies or think everything is 100 percent original in the first place and literally vilify people like that (the reason most of the art community is kinda toxic) ....really need to listen to you in this moment about master copys and studies and also at David Bowie about how he does not consume anything unless he sees something within it that he can steal. (david is dead of course but you get the point)....maybe if they listened to you and the old wisdom of david, they would be less toxic to the community they want to prop up. Once again I appreciate your honesty. I mean for fuck sake the music industry might be the only artistic place where people understand that copying and sharing is how the creativity spreads and continues.....the beatles copied past artists who copied past artists and each of those artists also found their voice and made magic.
Exactly! Beethoven practically started as a second Mozart, the Beatles as a second Little Richard & Buddy Holly, Manet as a second Velazquez, Van Gogh as a second Millet then a second Seurat and then a second Pissarro and then an amalgamation of a second Utamaro, a bit of Gauguin, the color theories of Delacroix and Charles Blanc. The whole history of art is there for US to better ourselves with!
@@christinakentart I totally agree, and like you said, so much of the art world was about copying the masters to their face and learning from them. And heck in some cases popularity of an artist was determined (I think) by how often they were copied by others. So I totally agree with you there. The Visual art world NEEDS to take note :) The question is....will they?
Great question! I usually copy from images I see online. I don't print them out, since my printer is not that great and distorts the colors a lot. I also have a few art books and will sometimes copy from those.
