Why is it that people who watch artists seem to feel the need to add their (unasked for) advice? I stopped trying to draw in public because I would often run into curious people who would stop and watch and on several ocaiosions give their critique and advice, and then get anoyed when I mentioned that I was not drawing for their entertainment.
I go through something similar to this at work.
Anytime I have to catch a fish, or an animal or bird, or even something mundane like cleaning tanks, a crowd gathers and behaves as if they have never seen or heard of this happening before. I’m asked all kinds of awful
Questions and even have people wanting to take my picture.
This is like the streets around Jackson Square in New Orleans.
This would be a good time for Claude Monet or some other famous artist to come along and critique Randie’s work, forcing Randie to respond. Of course, this would appear to the tourists that Randie is talking to herself.
Pasha… Yah… I prefer to doodle & sketch in anonymous mode. I often find that audience situations change my relationship to the subject matter. UNLESS I am in public artist mode… Then it is a whole different story.
Squidman… Well, I suppose if you live in Utah… And yer visiting the coast, catching fish and such might be tourist photography fodder…. Still…
Yat… Ah … Yes, Monet’s ghost hasn’t been seen lately… Time for another sighting/haunting!
As an interesting side note… I attended an art festival this weekend in Paso Robles… There were a good number of peoples with cameras taking pictures of artists and their wares… Including me… Fer reference of course…
People with cameras tend to like to put something interesting into a “scenery” photo. A river is nice, but a river with somebody fly-fishing on it, making nice big loops of line in the air? Bonus! I’m sure there are photos of me doing that in more than one vacation-photo collection by now.
Attic… people as scenery… or to enhance scenery… it’s good to have a subject in its environs. I tend to think that painting with people in them are a tad more interesting.
Grump… interesting… I dig cafes… I like to sit, draw, and sip the joe. I do so love the “goings ons” that occur there. But if I’m trying to study or something, it’s a little distracting… but not always… I think it depends. But you may be an extrovert, yes.
Why is it that people who watch artists seem to feel the need to add their (unasked for) advice? I stopped trying to draw in public because I would often run into curious people who would stop and watch and on several ocaiosions give their critique and advice, and then get anoyed when I mentioned that I was not drawing for their entertainment.
I go through something similar to this at work.
Anytime I have to catch a fish, or an animal or bird, or even something mundane like cleaning tanks, a crowd gathers and behaves as if they have never seen or heard of this happening before. I’m asked all kinds of awful
Questions and even have people wanting to take my picture.
This is like the streets around Jackson Square in New Orleans.
This would be a good time for Claude Monet or some other famous artist to come along and critique Randie’s work, forcing Randie to respond. Of course, this would appear to the tourists that Randie is talking to herself.
Pasha… Yah… I prefer to doodle & sketch in anonymous mode. I often find that audience situations change my relationship to the subject matter. UNLESS I am in public artist mode… Then it is a whole different story.
Squidman… Well, I suppose if you live in Utah… And yer visiting the coast, catching fish and such might be tourist photography fodder…. Still…
Yat… Ah … Yes, Monet’s ghost hasn’t been seen lately… Time for another sighting/haunting!
As an interesting side note… I attended an art festival this weekend in Paso Robles… There were a good number of peoples with cameras taking pictures of artists and their wares… Including me… Fer reference of course…
People with cameras tend to like to put something interesting into a “scenery” photo. A river is nice, but a river with somebody fly-fishing on it, making nice big loops of line in the air? Bonus! I’m sure there are photos of me doing that in more than one vacation-photo collection by now.
Heh – one of my hobbies is painting one inch tall wargaming miniatures.
I typically do this sitting in Burger King – I find that the distracting noise of people around me helps me focus.
Lately my girlfriend has been joining me on these occasions, painting her own figures.
It is possible that we are extroverts….
The Auld Grump
Attic… people as scenery… or to enhance scenery… it’s good to have a subject in its environs. I tend to think that painting with people in them are a tad more interesting.
Grump… interesting… I dig cafes… I like to sit, draw, and sip the joe. I do so love the “goings ons” that occur there. But if I’m trying to study or something, it’s a little distracting… but not always… I think it depends. But you may be an extrovert, yes.