I edit one of the largest sites about current art, Contemporary Art Daily: http://contemporaryartdaily.com http://contemporaryartdaily.com The best and first p

I edit one of the largest sites about current art, Contemporary Art Daily: http://contemporaryartdaily.com http://contemporaryartdaily.com The best and first place to start experimenting with art is drawing. Don't worry about focusing on realism, unless you want to. Sitting down with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper is exactly like making any art, only with less decision making up front. The magical thing about art is the total absence of any criteria. Here's this sheet of paper, and this pencil, and literally anything you choose to draw is totally acceptable and equivalent to anything else you might draw. So you have to start asking some pretty interesting questions to figure out what to do. Photography is also interesting and accessible for similar reasons. Apart from that, I think just like with programming the best thing to do first is to start consuming the sort of thing you eventually want to make. If you aren't familiar with much art, it will be harder to understand the possibilities and decide what interests you. Get to a contemporary art museum, if there's one nearby, or go to the library and grab a book on contemporary art. If you arrive at any specific questions or want to find more art akin to something you find that you like, feel free to e-mail forrest@ the above URL.