i should preface this by saying i'm not an artist, but i am an asshole. :honk:
i have paints and canvas and goof around using them. my primary motivation for doing this is because i like to have stuff i can look at on my walls, and i'll be goddamned if most of the stuff i can find for affordable home decoration isn't deeply displeasing, aesthetically.
to be more specific, i can't stand that pseudo Piet Mondrian looking genre of abstract color fields with lines and circles that seems to be on every couch pillow cover, rug, wall hanging, and shower curtain anymore. the excessive articulation is too aesthetically busy. it's like a geometry riddle with no answer, taunting me. who can relax surrounded with this?
am i making sense? or is this a :jesse-wtf: type situation?
The pillows that came with my couch have that problem. The couch is a flat darker grey fabric, and most of the pillows are a nice contrasting gold-ish colored fabric that has a really good texture to it. Except for the two biggest ones, which are the same nice straw color, except with these busy concentric circles over lapping on them. It's like gee thanks for these god awful things that will never live on my couch.
exactly. it's like some bored, underpaid guy wrote an app to randomly generate a suicidal robot's visual interpretation of whimsy.
ah, yes, the binary world of visual arts. flat solid colors or geometric clown barf.
visual fields can have subjects, gradients, mosaics/tesselations, textures. there are so many ways to not do the thing.
people do paint rugs. with acrylic paint and fabric medium. works with upholstery on furniture too.
checkmate, atheists.