Invention

[Black Spot]

When I was young (about 15) and full of ideas because I didn’t know any better, I invented a new form of painting – using dots (see below). I was so gutted when my teacher showed me pointillism. I also invented futurism and was twice gutted.

What did you invent when you were young and how learning that you were not a unique flower affect you?

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[waranghira]

philosophies

many of them

[Flake]

I remember many years ago working on an A1 sized painting from a ref photo, it occurred to me that I could hold the photo at arms length then back away from the easel until it was exactly the same size as my painting to better compare accuracy, my mind was blown a little.

I was unaware of the term "sight size" at this point..

[Ilaekae]

I actually invented oil paints and crayons (the beeswax kind, not the paraffin ones). I also invented the wheel, paper and fire, but didn't have the money to get them patented... :P

This kind of thing runs in my family... My dad invented dirt.

[Zirngibism]

I made a painting several years ago that featured spinning stairs facing in various directions amid cubist chaos that sort of fit together and rational shapes. I was pretty proud of it, and remember being kind of mad when someone came up and told me they "Loved my Escher". I didn't really even know who M. C. Escher was at the time, but I had done a painting with some of the characteristics of his works. Of course people think I copied him. >_<

Lately I've been exploring all different styles, trying to do something fo my own, not to much success. Not a good feeling really.

Beyond the art realm, I have a modification on water-walking shoes that I'd get patented if I ever have access to the proper workshop to build the prototype.

My dad invented dirt.

He SOOO deserved the Nobel Prize!

[Nam]

I invented doing super realistic portraits with a ball point pen (man I loved that thread... so brutal).

[ALH]

I once got into quite a fight with someone who seemed to think they invented shading back when i was starting out. I studied one of their pieces and found out how they did it ( i sucked at shading at the time) and used the method on my own work..only to be accused of plagarism. Yeah... Those were fun arguments.

[Elwell]

I actually invented oil paints and crayons (the beeswax kind, not the paraffin ones). I also invented the wheel, paper and fire, but didn't have the money to get them patented... :P

This kind of thing runs in my family... My dad invented dirt.
Ileakae thinks he invented hyperbole.

[arttorney]

I invented unshaded pen and ink line drawings made over random water media washes.

Then I went and saw a Paul Klee exhibition. It actually had a positive effect on me and emboldened me to keep trying.

[Stoat]

Sort of the opposite. I live in fear that I'm unconsciously plagiarizing something I've seen before -- particularly when a picture idea is unusually vivid.

I've accidentally done it, too...though fortunately not in any way that looked like theft. For some time in my twenties I was mildly obsessed with creating clockfaces with leering human faces. I made four or five before I realized it was the clock face on the mantel in Tenniel's illustration from Through the Looking Glass. Just an indigestible lump of childhood stuck halfway down.

[Stoat]

Wait. Wrong thread. That really belonged in the "think you're original" one.