An artist – Someone who likes playing by themselves
A painting – a thing to look at
A painter – Someone who attempts to make things from other things, like paper and runny coloured liquid, to make boring walls less boring
A figurative painting – a thing of another thing
An abstract painting – a thing
Impressionism – a bit of a blurry thing
Expressionism – a bit of a messy thing
Abstract Expressionism – messy
Tight drawing – I think you need to loosen up a bit, love!
Life Drawing – clothed people drawing a naked person but thinking as though the person was a thing such as a bowl of fruit
Equestrian Artist – someone who loves horses more than anything
Experimental Artist – actually I know what chucking paint at a canvas will do, but an experimental artist sounds like an exciting and cool thing to be
The Design – where the paint landed on this thing
Mixed Media – I used lots of different things to make this thing
Landscape – a long rectanglular thing
Portrait – an upright rectanglular thing
Square – a thing favoured by abstract artists who generally don’t see themselves as square
Canvas – a bit of cloth wrapped around some wood
Panel – some flattened wood
Collage – I can’t be bothered to draw or paint so will do some glueing
Values – Fifty shades of grey not the price
Checking composition – squinting
Mark making – messing up a pristine white thing
Texture – lumpy, bumpy things in the painting
Paintbrush- a magical hairy wand to dip into paint
Paint – one of life’s treasures
Pigment – coloured dust added to medium
Medium – a vehicle for pigment not a psychic
Acrylic paint – coloured glue
Oil Paint – smelly toxic stuff, addictive!
Clothes – things to ruin with paint
Work in progress – I have no idea how to finish this thing
Or
I think this thing is finished and possibly utterly brilliant, maybe even a masterpiece by an unrecognised genius, but then again it might be shit, so I’ll just say that its work in progress (wip)
Feedback – My delicate artists soul is now tortured by this thing I have been struggling with and I don’t know what else to do – please say you like it!
Interesting – bugger, they don’t like it!
Is it for sale? – Yay! they do like it!
Sold – Wow, they loved it! Maybe I am not a shit painter after all!
Image – Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be – from my Dusting my Whimsies series