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Snobs?
Reading the responses to Kim's question about bare chested boys reminds me of something said to me once. But first I want to confess to being an arist that can do much better than I actually do.
I was told not to pursue art as a child because it would get me nowhere. I was coaxed into going to UNC-CH because it was my father's Alma Mater and I was expected to go rather than go to its rival ECU where the art school was.
The fact that I have ended up a portrait painter that is paid a decent amount for the time involved pleases me because I proved my parents wrong. However, I had zero training other than what I could absorb from art books. That is why I read every word posted in this forum and tuck it away in that part of my brain that is waiting for the extra time to actually put it to use.
I also confess that in the past I have accepted, more often than not someone else's less than perfect resource material because my bills have to be paid. NEVER EVER once has has a client of mine walked away unhappy, more often than not when the mother sees her child (I only do children) she cries...this, to me, means I do SOMETHING right.
But technically I am challenged, I never realized how challenged I was until I came here. You Pros here scare the heck out of me. Like Kim, I want to call my mom and get her to tell me, yes dear, you are great. (But that doesn't happen very often, she hates to be proven wrong.) I admire you people that have the nerve to muster to go to one of Marvin's workshops, or any other wonderful painter.
I got the nerve once to go study with an artist I admired. Oddly enough it was arranged by my mother. I will leave him nameless, though I have a feeling a few here will figure it out. It was an enlightening experience. I don't know what I was expecting, but I did see that I wasn't that far off the mark in the way I did things which made feel a little better. He was an older man with lots of stories to tell in between brushstrokes. But the one thing that stuck in my head when I expressed my fears of working with and showing my work to others like him was this comment.
He stated "PULEEZ, one thing you need to know is that portrait artists are the biggest group of SNOBS on the planet, I have been one and worked along side some the greatest you will ever meet. Be careful reading forums like that. Learn to decipher what is the actual meat and what is smoke up your @&#!"
Oh, this conversation flowed out of him with tales all afternoon. I think in part he was smacking some in the face and in part poking fun at himself.
So, does this comment offend you pros or do you deep down agree?
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