Went wild with oil pastels today. It felt so good.
I love oil pastels because they make me feel like a kid again. Just creating shapes, coloring things in. I try to close my eyes when I’m drawing like this.
I finished a 2 meter tall painting and took some big strides on 3 100cm x 120cm paintings, which I’m excited about.
Self deprecating humor aside, today I looked in the mirror after drawing with the oil pastels for 2 hours and thought to myself (from what I believe to be the REAL me, not that evil side), “painting should be about being a kid again. There’s enough business and organization around the process, let the process be crazy and free. Plus, I’m a self educated, untrained nerd at the end of the day – stop trying to be ‘sophisticated’ with everything”. Ha ha.
The thought somehow put me at ease. It’s true, I have no training, I was always an artist no matter what I “tried to do” and no matter what medium interested me (music, painting, etc.).
I’m grateful for all of the support I’m getting and I think the new work is going in the right direction.