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Very seldom do i think painting is fun (If I am undrestanding what "fun" means) ...I am not chortling while I work I am wondering what to do next on the painting which may ruin it beyond repair (watercolour) or painting a passage in Acrylics which looks a bit garish. It has been known that when i get up through the night for age reasons I wander into the studio and look at the wip and see something like a shadow missing and i go,back to my bed and worry myself to sleep . The nearest i get to "fun" is when using Brusho or drawing cartoons and painting abstracts, and even the latter gives me a bout of serious thinking. Where am I going wrong?....Syd
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It depends on definitions - laughing during the work would mean it was FUNNY..
"Fun" to me means something enjoyable, maybe relaxing, contemplative, uplifting, calming..
People have fun sailing - but you don't see them laughing a lot.. just relaxed and content -- that's how my inking is for me.
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Oh, I don't know; if you get some sort of enjoyment out of it then it's gotta be fun. It's not like working for a living, which you do cos you've gotta pay those bills; you choose to do art even when you can't get things to come out quite how you'd like, and surely you wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun.
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It's an odd sort of fun - if you're struggling to get things right - and there's also the question what is "right"? - there's inevitably worry, and work, effort, sweat, occasionally tears, and occasionally putting your foot through the damn' thing. There is sheer fun as well - coming up with the idea, sketching it out and thinking about how it'll work, applying the first strokes to the virgin paper or canvas; and then there are those passages, not as common as you'd hope, in which everything starts to come together; and the sense of satisfaction when you've reached the point at which you don't know if it's really finished, but you know you can't add one more brush-stroke. There's the sheer physical pleasure of seeing colours merge and work together ... but it's more the satisfaction that you've done your best; that some of the passages worked better than you could have hoped.....
I think if you start chuckling, you're probably going slightly mad, which isn't the same thing at all. But I've never felt that painting is unalloyed pleasure - it can be a complete pain in the whatsit. On the other hand, when you can't sleep, as I often can't, there's little better than making a large pot of green tea and working on or starting a painting; if I put an hour of work in during the small hours, I can usually get back to sleep again: whether I know what to do with the painting in the cold light of day is something else again, but I usually do - sometimes after a long think and a hard stare.
When a painting is going really wrong, I find - giving away personal secrets - that I start getting very hot and bothered: whatever the weather, I find I have to remove my shirt and vest..... it's odd how often that seems to help: I've never understood why it does, or why I get so feverish in the first place. And that's not fun, not by a long chalk - it might entertain anyone watching though, if anyone ever is. It's a mix of pleasure and pain, though, and we probably don't do beginners any favours by assuring them that it's all just "fun" - they'll soon discover it isn't, and then maybe worry that they're doing something wrong, They're not - most of us go through something like this, even though probably most of us don't feel the need to do a strip-tease in front of the easel.
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Well it is fun, in a masochistic way! It is just a hobby for me. Enjoyable, aggravating, fun, exhausting, etc. etc. Now today, after I have taken a photo of my recent attempt at monoprinting, I will be painting my latest project. My I pod will go on full blast (sorry neightbours) and I will singalong full blast (really sorry neightbours), and everytime the song I am listenting to, be it pop, opera or whatever reaches a high note, my brush is lifted off the board whilst I shriek out that note! A sight to behold. And tonight I will be exhausted but happy that I have had a good day (that is if my painting turns out ok of course)!
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I get distracted so often by dogs that sometimes I feel like criminal, tiptoeing into my "art and craft room". They always sniff me out. The sneaking about and keeping my paper cutting/pencil searching and sharpening/drawer opening as quiet as possible has me humming 007 tune... Makes me feel like I am having fun then. Guess people with small kids have similar experience....
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Well, I have now had a fun-filled painting day. The neighbours, far from complaining about my loud music, have requested, having enjoyed it so much, that I turn it up higher - then again, they may have been sarkie!! And I thumped my brush up and down so much in time to the beat that I may have to repaint the whole picture.
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Double CD box set, with booklet - the musical version of the "War of the Worlds" story.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Worlds-Jeff-Wayne/dp/B0009MA93C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EKzV9JdAVM&list=PLZh-ijTJHOA-auy0nSEQbEGe2idC9K-6e
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Ah Richard Burton ! - and I treasure 'Under Milk Wood' - have to agree he's great on this but must say the 'music', notwithstanding RB, began to grate after a while to the extent that I didn't listen to it all the way through. Here's a bit from one of mine (with apologies) which inspired a recent abstract of mine:
plates diverging,
converging, then rupture
the pressurised prison
releasing
the hot bubbling lava
encrusting
the bleak lonely landscape
with fiery glow.
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