Final Life Drawings in Ubud
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 9:39PM Alas! The drawing has come to a close.
However, I did my best ever drawing a few days ago.
I could look at it forever and not quite understand how I did it.
I am definitely starting to believe in 'zones'... states of being you can enter when creating great art.
I'm pretty sure it's anything BUT the mind.
I'd done a few average sketches before this, and subsequently let go of my attachment to the drawing. And this is what happened next...
And so it shall be framed because Pete said you should celebrate one piece and give it the respect it deserves. So I wil frame it and hope that my folks will hang it somewhere. (Knowing them it will be the laundry and soon after the shed) but I will try to get their 'approval' yet again....
Do we ever grow out of that?
And now I'm moving on to watercolours - I need some lessons but I am happy to play with the Pisces-loving delicate coloured water.... and here are todays, and my last for now.
I think the best art is expressive, not realistic. Some people I've met would disagree, those types that think good art is if 'it really looks like the thing'. Uh, hellooooo boooooring.
I think an artist should take the subject and show it to us in a way that we haven't seen it, although perhaps felt it. Mood laden, moving, energetic. This would be my true aim with art.
[current mood] Coconut water (good for an intravenous drip) & Giggles in the villages
art, travel in Displays of Creativity
Reader Comments (4)
Well Done! Ohhhhhh.... can I buy the middle one??? ;-)
I have a in Japanese graphic designer friend in Tokyo who works just horrific hours but always makes sure he spends 4 weeks in Tahiti every year painting what he sees. And I love his painting because he seems so caught up in where he is. And when I saw your first picture, I felt the same thing. It's lovely work.
Love this work and your story about eating smiles....brilliant. Looks like you've had an amazing trip!
Awwww, flashback to the late 1990s! I always wanted to reprise this subject! Great work :-)