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.
I guess I had a bit of a revelation today. So many of the problems I have seem to be linked to me being “serious”, neglecting my inner child. I feel that it’s true at some level. This art thing can’t be “art” for me. It is a career and it isn’t. It’s just something …
Upper back pain has been holding me back recently, but I think that might be a good thing. First off, all of our experience as humans is completely absurd. Being the eye of the absolute, so to speak, has its amazing transcendent, pleasurable sensations and its downright horrible, painful sensations and they are not “felt” …
The back pain continues to get worse, but the limitation is breeding more contentment in my life (no reason necessary). I find my work making a transition since moving to our 2nd house in Merida. I am constantly looking at water and stone, both alive and changing in their own ways. There’s a feeling that …
I have this contemplative element or phase and I have an action oriented element or phase to my work right now. It’s invigorating because it allows two distinct aspects of my self to emerge and express themselves in the pictures. The contemplative phase is first. It consists of meticulous color selection (even going out to …
3.14.2024
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.
Related Posts
3.15.2024
I guess I had a bit of a revelation today. So many of the problems I have seem to be linked to me being “serious”, neglecting my inner child. I feel that it’s true at some level. This art thing can’t be “art” for me. It is a career and it isn’t. It’s just something …
3.25.2024
Upper back pain has been holding me back recently, but I think that might be a good thing. First off, all of our experience as humans is completely absurd. Being the eye of the absolute, so to speak, has its amazing transcendent, pleasurable sensations and its downright horrible, painful sensations and they are not “felt” …
5.5.2024
The back pain continues to get worse, but the limitation is breeding more contentment in my life (no reason necessary). I find my work making a transition since moving to our 2nd house in Merida. I am constantly looking at water and stone, both alive and changing in their own ways. There’s a feeling that …
3.11.2024
I have this contemplative element or phase and I have an action oriented element or phase to my work right now. It’s invigorating because it allows two distinct aspects of my self to emerge and express themselves in the pictures. The contemplative phase is first. It consists of meticulous color selection (even going out to …