sableaire:

thatismighty:

cannedviennasnausage:

chroniclearia:

Art Critic: the skull in the corner is artfully placed on the periphery of vision to symbolise the omnipresence of death, important thematically to the artist’s conception of life and mortality.

Actual Artist: aw shit, I got all this negative space, guess I’ll stick a skull there that looks pretty rad.

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I painted a copy of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring for a class in college, and when I displayed it for review the professor was like, “Are you making a statement about materialism by not painting her wearing the actual earring?”

And that, kids, was the first time I ever cursed in front of a teacher.

The painting is called The Girl with the Pearl Earring, and I forgot. To paint. The damned. EARRING.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes in your art or craft because the viewer will, almost certainly, assume it was intentional and assign it a better meaning than you could have thought of on your own. Art is collaborative, even in the most unexpected ways, ahahaha.