Readers, I would like to take a post or two to just describe the beauty of painting and how it feels when there’s a brush in my hand. If you’re not an artist then you don’t know or understand what painting or another form of creative release feels like. So in this post I want to enlighten those who are unaware.
White. Pure white. No blemishes or spots of color. Only white. A giant square of white just begging to be covered from top to bottom in the colors of my choosing. But it can't be done in any fashion. This is a creation. I can't just slop paint on a canvas haphazardly. This requires time. This requires thought. This requires creativity and a new world view.
I want to paint an object. Describe it in perfect detail in a way that can't be seen in real life. I want to make others think about this thing in a new light. The same old style isn't enough anymore. We can't just paint for the sake of painting.
The definition of art is expanding, and I have to find a way to accommodate that. This is a challenge. This is more than just putting colors on a canvas. This is more than just lines and shapes looking nice together. This is more than what anyone thinks it is. This is art and art is life.
To be a painter is to be more than someone who smears paint around on a canvas. To be a painter is to be someone who challenges the publics view on everything while bringing in beauty simultaneously.
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