mymodernmet.com: Throughout history, still life artists have shown that beauty can be found in everyday objects. From the flower paintings of Northern Renaissance artists to the tabletop compositions of modernists, capturing objects in pencil or paint allows them to live on forever as a moment frozen in time. Today, many artists are putting a contemporary twist on the timeless tradition by creating still lifes of modern-day objects and food.
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This article is so cute. Many creatives and people within the art industry have been really struggling during this time of quarantine with a lack of inspiration or supplies, me being one of them. I have found premade coloring pages have helped me a little bit in the creative outlet sense, but I still have something missing. I think having just a little bit of help with this article to have a few things from each room in your house that are somewhat simple but yet somewhat complicated to draw or paint is so nice and helpful. Trying to get the exact shadows on a fluffy blanket that isn’t perfect can take hours and when you are bored in quarantine, you might have hours to spend on a drawing of your blanket. One thing I also really liked about his article is that it included examples of these drawings and paintings that people have already done so you get inspiration from their work as well as the drawing prompt.
I used to like reading books, watching movies, and going to the theatres in my free time. I preferred taking the creative energy in rather than generating it, especially when I had so much tasks to do every day. However, this long quarantine period is affecting how I use my free time. Since I have so much time now, I am starting to get tired of just receiving energy through overfloating online contents. I feel like I should balance my input and output to keep good mental health. Drawing, sewing, paper cutting, and etc. might be good hobbies to start. I can imagine myself concentrating on my fingers and thinking about nothing else. The work would not be graded or seen by anyone, so I don’t even have to think about the quality of the work. Finding ways to relieve stress and adapt oneself to the new lifestyle is a key to survive through the COVID-19 crisis.
Im ridiculously bored (that is part of the reason all my comments have been uber pessimistic for like a month - sorry) and I miss doing art, so when school is over I will probably start trying to draw. I have never been particularly good at drawing, but if I hunker down for a few hours and really put my brain into it I can produce something that always surprises me! I know that somewhere in there I have the capability to do the thing, but actually doing the thing is going to take time. I have way too much time right now. I like the first idea of doing a few paintings of furniture and plants. I particularly like this idea for the furniture part. Perhaps spending a lot of time staring at a chair will give me more of a feel of how they are built! We shall see I suppose.
I think it is really great that so many people are finding creative ways to pass the time in quarantine. I wish I could do more drawing and painting for fun, but maybe i'll have more time after classes end. Speaking of paintings, I have been really enjoying seeing the recreations of classic paintings such as Klimt’s The Kiss that people have been doing from their homes. It is so funny to see how people are using common household items in creative ways to recreate these paintings. I’ve seen ones where people used furniture, different kinds of food, and even painted themselves to mimic the images and some of them are really clever and downright hilarious. I think this quarantine is going to really make people appreciate the importance and power of art. There is a facebook page that I have seen where every post is a poem or quote paired with a famous work of art. I came across the page and found the juxtaposition of those two art forms to be very comforting in this uncertain and troubling time.
I’ve been telling myself for a while that i’m going to get back into doing more artwork and trying to draw more things, but the inspiration hasn’t been there, or the motivation to pick up a pencil was gone. I think it’a important to remember that when I draw, it doesn’t need to result in a nice final product all of the time and that I don’t always need to dive into the depths of my wildest imaginations for everything. I liked the way the article set up the little things you could doodle that are in the various rooms of your house and the little images they provided as well. I really like the idea of drawing the little houseplants, things on your desk, or food in the fridge. Hopefully once all of the draining computer work for school is done I’ll be able to find it within me to pick up doing some of these.
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