What is art anyway? A personal Art-life-blog, Portfolio and Shop by C.Hoffmann
2019 is starting great! I launched my Patreonpage today and I have a welcome gift for you!
If you like Art for free, klick on the link and you can download one of my favorite watercolour sketches from 2018.
This is completely free. You can print it, hang it, share it or make someone you love happy with it!
I would love to here what you think about it!
Is someone here, who is also on Patreon? Let’s connect by leaving your link in the comments.
Have a great day,
Claudi
Although I was highly enganged in other stuff, like last week, I did some very beautiful pieces.
I played with bright colours like orange and green, which really satisfyed my spontaneous side.
I also did some more experimentations with black ink on fluid acrylics. I love these tree like structures.
But what I liked most, was combining fluid acrylics with spray paint. I came up with some really interesting surfaces and textures. As I added some heat and the paint started bubbling I got so excited I almost ruined my desk.
In my last post about artcritique a stranger said I’m NOT an Artist I talked about how to deal with inappropriate critisism. Today I want to talk about:
What’s that? Basically this is the thing where you beat yourself up and tell yourself you are crap, all you do is sh** and you will never do anything worthwhile in your entire life.
As you know I use Instagram a lot and I post (@claudi_pinkie) every Artwork I make there even before it is in my shop. I post twice a day and sometimes I have good post on which many people react, comment and like and sometimes I have posts where only some people react. That’s totally ok. I don’t expect anything else. It’s the same with followers, you gain some, you lose some.
But suddenly this happened:
I posted a detailpic of a mini-artwork and started losing followers. They literally ran away. I thought to myself “well they don’t like this one. That’s ok. They are going to like the next one.” But it didn’t stop. It went on for two days and I was unable to stop losing followers.
I am immune to some level of critisism, but that triggered my inner critic. I started to question me and my art again. I thought this guy, who said my work isn’t art was right and everybody seems to agree to that. I was thrown back to the point where I started this blog a year ago- insecure, anxious and fearful.
But what did I learn in the last year?
I took a short break and then I started making art again. At first I thought I won’t be able to make something good, when my inner critic is in such a bad mood…but then something clicked. I enjoyed the process. I loved the colours and I did five paintings in one session. I really love painting!
And I also love this mini-artwork which caused this situation. Maybe it is not my best piece, but this little abstract tree was one of the first pieces I did, after I decided to go all in and just make art. This little piece stands for a whole new life.
when you lose followers it simply means that someone is not interested in the things you post, but that does not mean it is crap. You just lose people, who weren’t a good match in the first place. You should also consider, that it is not the number but the quality of followers. You don’t need thousands of people see your stuff. As an Artist you just need a handful of people who truly appreciate your work.
Did you experience something similar? I would love to hear your story! I’d also love to see your art on Instagram! Please leave a comment!
He commented one of my post with: “This is not art”. After two more comments I contacted him through the messanger. At that time I thought he would give me some kind of critique or explains his personal point of view, which I would appreciate although it could hurt.
Instead it was like having a relationship discussion with an 18 year old. He just pointed out that I am not an artist, that everybody could do what I do and so on. Just statements not one single point to discuss.
Those of you, who follow my blog, know that this is my main question in every single piece I do and that this question: What is art anyway? Is constantly in my head.
this is a total invalid argument when it comes to critique the artwork of another person, or critique the artist him/herself.
The answers to the questions: Am I an Artist? Can I call this Art? Is my work a piece of Art? Have to be completely and entirely answered by you and yourself allone! This is a deep, personal identity question. Conversely this means that nobody can criticise these aspects and nobody can give you the answers. Here is the point where I can quote Henry Ford:
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you‘re right.”-Henry Ford
And the same applies to your identity: Whether you think you are or you think you aren’t, you’re right.
So….I am totally open for critique: Don’t like my colour palette? Don’t like my technique? Do you hate abstract art?Please tell me all about it!
Or do you hate that somebody is doing, what you want to do, but you lack the courage? Or do you hate that you can’t understand what somebody is doing? Or are you just frustrated about your own life and want to make someone else feel bad? Well…I don’t want to hear about that!
Did you experience something similar? How do you deal with that kind of critique? Let’s have a nice discussion! Please comment! (but don’t you say I’m not an artist ;))
Well….I did do some art…but I didn’t do as much as I wanted to. Instead I did a lot of marketing stuff…but I don’t want to complain. All in all I am satiyfied with my new Artworks! Feel free to share on Pinterest, Instagram or else:
So I spend the last three days working on my Etsy-Shop. I did the whole thing: listings, SEO, Marketing, writing, liking, researching, keywording, coffee drinking, swearing, and now beer drinking.
Here comes the link:
The last 72 hours were really intense and I am glad that I completed it. Next I will be working on this blog and the Youtube channel.
There is a lot interesting stuff coming up, so don’t forget to follow me somewhere.
Here are some of my products ready to sell:
I sketched a fisherman in the ocean by using a Photoreference for. I used black ink on paper without a pencil undersketch. It took me about 5 minutes to finish it.
I made this sketch for a drawing challenge. The theme was half bird half serpent and this is the idea i had in mind. I sketched with black ink on paper without a pencil undersketch. It took me about 5 minutes to finish it.
Today I tried wet in wet with my black ink. It did go well on some parts, but it also went wrong on other parts as you will see in the video. The first mountains were great but the sky was a desaster. But we learn from our mistakes!
This Sketch took me about 5 minutes. I only concentrated on the most important lines and shadows.
