Anyhow, I went into Wednesdays session telling my friend how much I hate painting. I really do. I want so bad to work the painting like I do a coloured pencil or graphite work but can't. I find myself painting with a cloth and my fingers much of the time to gain some control over what's happening. Fingers in toxic substances probably aren't the smartest way to create art. I don't like paint brushes.
My instructor very kindly came over during the class and told me I have the makings of a great painter. I'm improving all of the time and I've got great potential. She must have heard me complaining. She's such an encouraging woman, God bless her, but I still hate painting.
That being said, I want to do it all the more for just that reason. I won't let it beat me. I will continue to paint. The one good thing is that the colour theory involved in the painting process has spilled over onto my coloured pencil works and improved them in the process.
Maybe next I'll paint with chocolate. Goodness knows some of my coloured pencil works are done partially in blood. I usually get paper cuts or stab myself with my pencils and bleed somewhere on the work. Don't worry though....they're sealed with a finish, put behind glass and I have no diseases.
I wonder how many works of art out there today actually contain the DNA of their creators? You think the Mona Lisa has a little of Leonardo in her somewhere?
Maybe someday when I'm long gone someone can take my DNA from one of the works and clone me and bring me back again. But then, why would they want to;-) Once around is enough for most of us.
9 comments:
thats actually a neat thought. leonardo dna in the painting...would be interesting to find out.
i hate painting too. hate it with a passion. I paint a lot better with my fingers or a really big pallete knife.
you really should paint with chocolate! but then people might lick the paintings in the gallery o.0
Now I want one even more. Some day!
I have the makings of a great dead person.
Jennifer Rose, I wonder if most coloured pencil artists are that way about painting.
Megan;-)
Kurt, you'll never know for sure until you try it. Hopefully not anytime in the near future I still enjoy your zine too much.
Well dna or not i think you are a great painter too. I know what you mean about paint.
I use to like colored pencil stuff because i had better control but then I gave up and just enjoy sketching...
Love your figure painting. It's great.
That's A Wonderful Idea! Being Able To Clone An Artist From The DNA in their painting! If Van Gough Were Alive Today Scientists Might Be Able To Grow Him A New Ear!
I hear ya Tony. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I was just going to suggest somehow incorporating chocolate into the painting..hahaha...but, you beat me to it....
We are back from Portugal...and there was one day that had us all "chocolated out". It was at a castle that also has a small town surrounding it. Every year they have a chocolate festival ... for about week I think ... all the vendors have different types of goodies that are chocolate. The cutest one was some tiny chocolate cups filled with a very sweet fruity alcohol. It's just a tiny sip...and about all a person would want ... there are classes...and displays ...and students of pastry schools exhibiting etc.....
forgot to tell you the name of the town...Obidos.....which after about an hour of sampling chocolate...we began to call Overdose...... hahahhah.... we definitely were overdosed by then...
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