Creating Art Analysis

Creating art is an obscure thing to do because art is all around you. Everywhere you go, you see art. But when it comes to creating art, it gets a little complicated. You see art everywhere, but you don’t know how to create it, because you don’t know what makes something art. In my experience, art has many forms. It has different shapes and colors. For my painting class, I never knew what to paint. I can’t explain what art is, because art is such a big concept you can’t define. Many people see art differently. Something can be art to you, but to another, it’s just random lines, colors, and shapes everywhere on a canvas.

At the start of my paint class, I had to paint something on a blank canvas. I didn’t know what I to do for my first painting. I was waiting for rules, they make everything easier and they guide you through your creating process. But little did I know, there aren’t any rules when it comes to art. Art can be anything you want it to be. You can paint rainbows, butterflies, the moon, shapes, etc. Nobody can tell you what to do. You decide what you want to paint. It’s your painting not there’s. You choose any color you want, and you do anything you want on your canvas. You can paint any picture you want. I chose many bright colors for my first paintings. I love bright colors.

I painted things that made me happy, like trees, candy, a blue sky, and animals. The theme I chose for the class was lollipops. My paintings looked like they were meant for kids and they can be. I liked painting things that made me think my canvas was a happy place you could live in. I didn’t mind what I was painting, I even loved it because of all the fun colors I was using. But then my teacher said to me to go in another direction with less bright colors, and him saying that made me once again question, what I was supposed to paint now? Should I just throw the paintbrush everywhere and see what it made? I had no clue on what I was supposed to do.

I was insecure about the colors my teacher wanted me to make a painting with. He made me go in an opposite direction I didn’t want to go. I don’t like dull colors. But, I now realize the colors aren’t dull. You just must put life to it in your painting. There wasn’t much stimulation going on in my brain whilst I was painting with these types of colors. In consequence, I had to ask for advice on how to begin. I had no idea on what to do with these lifeless colors. If I had not asked for advice, I would not have been done on time. Making art with these kinds of colors was hard for me. It’s not the type of art I would normally do, but it did open my eyes a little to what I can do with colors who aren’t vibrant. I learned many things. I learned how to make dull colors, I learned I could still make great paintings, even if it’s not the colors I would have chosen, and I learned how to make these lifeless colors come to life in my painting.

To create art, you must use your imagination to its full extent. Something beautiful might come out of all your first scribbles. That’s what happened to me. I always used to know how my paintings would look like when I would be done with them. Except for the first painting, the fourth, and my last. It surprised me how my first and fourth painting were the ones my teacher liked the most. He liked my first painting more than my fourth painting, which makes no sense to me because I didn’t like my first painting at all. The colors contrasted themselves and I didn’t find it very appealing. The fourth one surprised me less because he was the one who told me to use these types of colors. The best paintings we make are those wherein the beginning you don’t know what to paint. Just throw the colors you like on the blank canvas and in the end, it will become a beautiful masterpiece.

I can’t explain why my best paintings came from me just letting my brush go on the canvas without thinking.

My best answer would be, art comes from the heart and not the mind. Because the paintings where I used my mind to paint, my teacher didn’t like them, and the paintings where I used my heart to paint, my teacher liked them. In conclusion, when doing any kind of art, you must not constantly think about what you are doing. It doesn’t matter what you paint, it just must come from your heart. There’s no time for thinking about how you want your painting to look like. Using your feelings more than your mind is the best way to come up with art everyone and yourself will

appreciate.

You can’t judge someone else’s art. It might not be what you would’ve painted, but those paintings are still art. Don’t let anyone tell you what you create isn’t art, because nobody can tell you what is and what isn’t art. It might not be for them, but everything we do can be art. There’s no right or wrong way to create art. It’s your creation, not there’s. Art doesn’t have to be perfect. Don’t be afraid to paint what you want to paint, because nobody can judge you. Art isn’t something that can be judged, unless you are in a class, learning new things, or you are an art critic. Express yourself through your art. You will see your paintings will become special to you, they will have a meaning to you, and everything that you will paint will become a journey for you.