Cut Off Your Arm to Push Your Boundaries
Stuck in a rut? Dig yourself out by throwing away your usual shovel. You love making art enough to paint with your toes, right?
Benefits to making art without your usual tools:
- you’ll learn a new tool along the way
- you’re more engaged in the process
- using a new tool forces your mind to work differently
As I’ve been gearing myself up for this first Make Art, Die Happy blog post — locating a header-worthy image, slogging through my junk to find a first-post-worthy sketch, hurriedly writing down my ideas for future posts — my digital camera is conspicuously MIA. I don’t even have a scanner. How am I to get my hard copy art into the digital world?
I don’t. Instead, I’ll make new art that’s digital from birth. What a better way to christen the blog?
Viola. Lack of camera or scanner = cheesy Photoshop goodness.
Cheers!