Just look at the pain behind her eyes. She is truly suffering for her art.
Also writers with their ink-stained fingers. It doesn’t make sense, but it wouldn’t do to skip it
The one with people working on electronics and holding the soldering iron with the hot end is also a classic.
If it smells like pork, you’re holding it wrong.
This may go without saying, but here it is anyway : this picture reinforces a harmful cliché about artists. In reality, most of us are 1. very hard workers 2. independent (little safety net) 3. very, very hard workers
I’d be willing to bet my dominant hand that we daydream less than the average home renter
The dabbing paint on your face part is real though right?
Yeah, though sculptors have it worse. Henry Moore had to pour splatters of molten bronze on his face.
Yes, I can attest both to the dabbing and to the fondling. I own no brushes, though.
“Trying to…avoid…cliches…by not actually placing my brush on the canvas”
Spaced - Brian (1minute 50) (youtube link)
Hmm, are you that empty handed painter Dylan sang of?