Common Materials Used by Self-Taught Artists

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Christina Varga from the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, New York, and on behalf of Expert Village, today I'm gonna show you how to be a self-taught artist. Not an easy thing. Alright, here are my materials, some of them. These are the liquids that I have. See I keep them down under here because liquids really can only fall down. So they'll spill on the floor, no big deal. They used to be on a raised shelf, and, bad feng shui, bad feng shui. So, put your chemicals on the floor, make sure that they don't spill anywhere, that they're sort of protected from people. Kids can't get into it, even though that's totally kid-level, what am I talking about? And come over here. Pardon me. We're also having an opening right now, or a closing, I should say. Closing party. Here goes Louie Gusparro, one of the artists that were in this exhibition. And here are my flat things and my materials that I use, that I cut up, scissors, surfaces that I paint on, stuff that I get randomly, stretchers and old canvasses, and stuff like that; actual canvas, all my art books are up here. That's reference material. I have stuff for, here are my wood mosaics that I cut up. Over here are the papers that I use, like this is all my collage material. And then I have stacks and stacks of pornography. I have stacks and stacks of pornography that I use in my work, and I can show you those if you want. I don't have to show you those. We'll do pornography in another segment. "