I never really was a rat for art museums. At least not at the time, I have gone to plenty of them in my youth due to schooling and then later art history in community college, but I never got it. Sure everything looked cool but I never knew why it was such a big deal. So I gave everything a quick glance, two glances at best and moved on.

Now, I no longer have access to that awesome art museum in Dallas and tear sheds if I think about it too long.

NOW I know what it is people look for in those paintings. I have come to realize how much I enjoy taking the pictures that run rampant in my head and able to breath them into life via drawing. I am stumbling my way into paintings with watercolor and now oil painting. Part of the journey is not only learning how to handle the medium but start collecting pieces that inspire me that I actively like.

That has come with pros and cons. The cons. I have become very picky about the fan art I look at. I hate feeling snooty but just having two characters interact is not enough anymore, I need technique as vague as I know that word to be. I think this is my taste developing, I can't just eat junk food, my body craves heartier stuff. The pros is that I can see that now, I can gaze at fanart, or other pieces of art and actually SEE what I like about it. I feel my language is still to vague to express in detail what I like about things, but they are now consistent and that is thrilling.

Another part of searching for pieces is that, well fan art is not the end all be all of art in the world so I need to look for other places, but since younger rat me did not pay attention to anything art related I had very little information to go off.

I looked up the classics, which is just like Monet and Picasso. That is until I stumbled upon some Ace attorney artwork that really blew my mind. I commissioned them immediately, when talking to them about the commission we started a conversation about style and master painters.

I explained I knew very little and they happily gave me a you tube playlist of some British guy talking about art history. It was great! He was funny and the information was entertaining so I started really trying to see what "old masters" I actually enjoyed.

Since then I have lost that piece of paper XD. So I will attempt to actually document my findings on here, or more on my actual website. https://overthinkingrat.neocities.org/digitalgarden

First Up this Painting by Geoge Bellows

I am a big big big fan of MOVEMENT I need those limbs to be wonky to show motion and impact and very much how this pieces show the brutality, the rippling power from the impact

The Laundress by Toulouse-Lautrec

I like the portrayals of people in there most mundane moments. I also like the brushstrokes used here as well as how many different colors are in the face as well as in the shadows of her clothes. and her hair and just UGH i love it.

same artist as the last one, this painter. I also like the kinda unsaturated color palette. I am still hard maxing my saturation but I do want to pull back. just look at those brushstrokes.

That is it for now I will continue my search, I have impressionist books at home, I saw one of a lady but I do not know the artist. Also if you have not noticed, the human figured intrigues me the most.