Just Another Day

Use your free time as inspiration for your art. Take the things around you, lessons or experiences in your life as things to create. Use your “ordinary, everyday” life to help you create and soon ideas will begin to come easily to you.

For example in my painting classes I focus on body image and bullying – topics that I have studied since high school, and that I have seen people hurt and affected from. Experiencing and studying these topics in my everyday life has lead me to create multiple different paintings relating back to the topic.

Taking your everyday life and putting it into your art can lead to your art being more than just something to look at. This will give it meaning and stories. While some people just like to look at art and think it is pretty, the art world wants something more than that. Professors want something more than “pretty”. They want to look at a painting a feel something, and see a story in it.

Learn to make your art tell a story before you go to college, and your professors will be impressed with your capability to look beyond a good image. It is not always an easy process to learn, but once you figure out how it will come naturally to you.