11-16-2016, 07:05 PM
I appreciate you sharing your story, [MENTION=20947]MikeW[/MENTION] . I really like drawing and coloring, and I have led a lot of art workshops with kids, and for adults with special needs. My brother really likes painting, and when I'm helping him we usually end up making art of some kind together too.
I've had a lot of people tell me I should take art more seriously, explore it more, but in all honesty its not where my passions are. I love art, and I love looking at it, and talking about it, and making it, and helping and encouraging others to do so too. But for myself, I view it as more of a hobby. Something to play around with when I want to make people laugh or when Im bored and drinking.
I really admire and am inspired by people like yourself who can do the fun, free sort of art you described - I especially love how collaborative you made it. But I also feel that way about very serious artists who are able to make the sort of art I saw in the website you posted. I love that you can get down with poster paints and crayons, but are also able to produce art that is so clearly on a different level in terms of technique, theory, quality. I guess the word Im looking for is, fine art.
Its humbling because like the guy you wrote about, I hadn't realized that you are a fine artist. So to see it, and to know that you make yourself so accessible here, and in your day to day life as well... I mean, maybe it a poor word choice, but I feel its humbling. And I like being humbled by people I respect and admire, so I only meant it as a compliment when I said that.
Im humbled by the amazing fine art you are able to create, but I am also very inspired by the way you can share your passion and just the joy and release of making art with others. I am also of the belief that the art in a lot of ways is the moment of creation - the movements, feelings, planning, emotions, smells, sounds of art making. The canvas or sculpture is in some ways just the product of the real art. So especially that you can pass along to people to focus more on the process than the product and to embrace the uncertainty of a blank sheet of paper - that is very inspiring, and speaks more directly to what I am passionate about in my life.
I've had a lot of people tell me I should take art more seriously, explore it more, but in all honesty its not where my passions are. I love art, and I love looking at it, and talking about it, and making it, and helping and encouraging others to do so too. But for myself, I view it as more of a hobby. Something to play around with when I want to make people laugh or when Im bored and drinking.
I really admire and am inspired by people like yourself who can do the fun, free sort of art you described - I especially love how collaborative you made it. But I also feel that way about very serious artists who are able to make the sort of art I saw in the website you posted. I love that you can get down with poster paints and crayons, but are also able to produce art that is so clearly on a different level in terms of technique, theory, quality. I guess the word Im looking for is, fine art.
Its humbling because like the guy you wrote about, I hadn't realized that you are a fine artist. So to see it, and to know that you make yourself so accessible here, and in your day to day life as well... I mean, maybe it a poor word choice, but I feel its humbling. And I like being humbled by people I respect and admire, so I only meant it as a compliment when I said that.
Im humbled by the amazing fine art you are able to create, but I am also very inspired by the way you can share your passion and just the joy and release of making art with others. I am also of the belief that the art in a lot of ways is the moment of creation - the movements, feelings, planning, emotions, smells, sounds of art making. The canvas or sculpture is in some ways just the product of the real art. So especially that you can pass along to people to focus more on the process than the product and to embrace the uncertainty of a blank sheet of paper - that is very inspiring, and speaks more directly to what I am passionate about in my life.
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