When
you learn to enjoy and appreciate fine art by your favorite painters,
you'll understand that what you create is giving that same joy to every
one of your buyers. You're finding unseen treasures in the world, even a
swirl of abstract paint on a canvas that expresses rage or joy or love
will help someone understand, experience and release their feelings.
Expect that learning to paint and draw will lead you to change and grow as a human being. You are literally using parts of the brain many other people learned to ignore and like a muscle, those brain functions improve and change permanently. You may become more intuitive and creative in other activities. You may become more expressive in other ways or very visual oriented. Your awareness of color and color sense will affect how well you dress and so you'll seem better looking to other people. Most of these changes are positive.
Make sure you want to be famous. Being famous is not fun all the time, so decide how famous you want to become in the long run. A successful local artist can have a good middle class income without being world famous, and it's still a good job. Being the best artist in your school or your fan club is fame too; fame is just the appreciation of people you don't know who like the work you do. How much of it makes you happy is a lifestyle choice.
Consider keeping your privacy if your fame spreads beyond your comfort zone. What your fans are interested in is your painting and a few key details about your life. You need to be able to talk a little bit about why you like to paint and why you paint what you do. Mentioning the existence of family and pets and maybe birthplace is enough for a biography, you don't need to reveal what you eat for breakfast or what brand of shoes you like best. An artist's fame does not have to lead to the lifestyle of the "rich and famous" fast paced jet set - many famous artists are quite private people and it's the paintings that get seen, along with some taped interviews. They may socialize much more with relatives, fellow artists and people who share their hobbies.
Enjoy art. As you learn to paint and draw better, you will observe the world more accurately. If you seek out beauty, you will find it in the ugliest, weirdest, most unexpected places: the glint of light on broken glass on a concrete sidewalk, the curl of a leaf on a weed, or the smile on the face of an ugly old woman who suddenly becomes beautiful because in the artist's trained vision.
The more you learn to love beauty and find joy in art, the more becoming a better painter will deepen and enrich your life in all aspects. That awareness of the good things in life: the flavor of the wine, the feeling of good food in your belly, the happy exhaustion of having tramped through wet fields all day to paint for fifteen minutes and successfully capture twilight fog on a canvas—that journey is its own reward.
Think of your work as real, valuable work that has as long a learning curve as medicine or law. It's not just raw talent that happens to some lucky people: even artists who seem to learn fast or learn young have just put more effort into it before you knew them than others who started late or learned slowly. Children have a physical advantage in learning anything, if they learn it while their brains are growing physically they learn faster than adults. Adults learn it no less deep.
Expect that learning to paint and draw will lead you to change and grow as a human being. You are literally using parts of the brain many other people learned to ignore and like a muscle, those brain functions improve and change permanently. You may become more intuitive and creative in other activities. You may become more expressive in other ways or very visual oriented. Your awareness of color and color sense will affect how well you dress and so you'll seem better looking to other people. Most of these changes are positive.
Make sure you want to be famous. Being famous is not fun all the time, so decide how famous you want to become in the long run. A successful local artist can have a good middle class income without being world famous, and it's still a good job. Being the best artist in your school or your fan club is fame too; fame is just the appreciation of people you don't know who like the work you do. How much of it makes you happy is a lifestyle choice.
Consider keeping your privacy if your fame spreads beyond your comfort zone. What your fans are interested in is your painting and a few key details about your life. You need to be able to talk a little bit about why you like to paint and why you paint what you do. Mentioning the existence of family and pets and maybe birthplace is enough for a biography, you don't need to reveal what you eat for breakfast or what brand of shoes you like best. An artist's fame does not have to lead to the lifestyle of the "rich and famous" fast paced jet set - many famous artists are quite private people and it's the paintings that get seen, along with some taped interviews. They may socialize much more with relatives, fellow artists and people who share their hobbies.
Enjoy art. As you learn to paint and draw better, you will observe the world more accurately. If you seek out beauty, you will find it in the ugliest, weirdest, most unexpected places: the glint of light on broken glass on a concrete sidewalk, the curl of a leaf on a weed, or the smile on the face of an ugly old woman who suddenly becomes beautiful because in the artist's trained vision.
The more you learn to love beauty and find joy in art, the more becoming a better painter will deepen and enrich your life in all aspects. That awareness of the good things in life: the flavor of the wine, the feeling of good food in your belly, the happy exhaustion of having tramped through wet fields all day to paint for fifteen minutes and successfully capture twilight fog on a canvas—that journey is its own reward.
Think of your work as real, valuable work that has as long a learning curve as medicine or law. It's not just raw talent that happens to some lucky people: even artists who seem to learn fast or learn young have just put more effort into it before you knew them than others who started late or learned slowly. Children have a physical advantage in learning anything, if they learn it while their brains are growing physically they learn faster than adults. Adults learn it no less deep.
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