Josh "cortex" MillardApr 12, 2017

Some #art thoughts I've been struggling with:

1. I'm learning to do oil painting. I have a lot of cultural baggage about painting, from outside. Oils as high culture, mastery of art, pure fancy creation.

2. I'm deep in a math art place, variations on Menger sponges and related ideas. Stark geometric objects, fine hard lines and proportions.

The two fit together weird; I feel like my subject is fighting my medium, and yet feel like using tools (stencils etc) to mitigate that is "cheating".

Show threadfussybritches
@joshmillard My high school art teacher did the most amazing paintings of buildings (in acrylics)--very geometric because of the angles she used. She did both free hand and ruler depending on the piece. I asked her if she felt like it was cheating when she used a ruler and she said "Rules in art?! There are no rules in art!" We both laughed. As long as you're creating, that's what's important.
Apr 12, 2017 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadJosh "cortex" MillardApr 12, 2017
@fussybritches Heh. Yeah, that's the spirit I think.