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Learning how to draw means learning to see. A good art lesson teaches us not only to create but to look at, think about and understand our world through art.
What is an un-tutorial? Typically a tutorial succeeds when the student's artwork looks just like the master's. but what if the art teacher wants to inspire you to become an artist yourself and find your own creative voice?
This article is a departure from the tutorial. It is my attempt to deconstruct the artistic process and show, not tell, what goes on in an artist's mind. Art making is, by nature, an intuitive journey. Choose the photographs below that interest you. Look at them and play these movies as you are painting or drawing. Your art will not look like mine. It will be uniquely yours, not a reflection of my vision but a synthesis of your own observations, experiences and thoughts.
When you are done creating your own under water world, find something else that inspires you and begin to sketch, film and photograph. Gather and create as many images as you can. I visited oceans, aquariums and pet stores and filled camera rolls and sketchbooks as I was making these films. Except where otherwise noted, the photographs below are my own. A few photographs from Hawaii by my husband, Tim Wintemberg, depict the underwater world we explored together snorkeling with our daughter in 2010. My exploration of imaginary oceans has just begun.
"Jason deCaires Taylor is an internationally acclaimed eco-sculptor who creates underwater living sculptures, offering viewers mysterious, ephemeral encounters and fleeting glimmers of another world where art develops from the effects of nature on the efforts of man. His site-specific, permanent installations are designed to act as artificial reefs, attracting corals, increasing marine biomass and aggregating fish species, while crucially diverting tourists away from fragile natural reefs and thus providing space for natural rejuvenation. Subject to the abstract metamorphosis of the underwater environment, his works symbolize a striking symbiosis between man and nature, balancing messages of hope and loss.
Taylor’s sculptures change over time with the effects of their environment. These factors create a living aspect to the works, which would be impossible to reproduce artificially. As time passes and the works develop biological growth, they redefine the underwater landscape, evolving within the narrative of nature."
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Love your artwork! These are great!
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