He looks so happy, and that makes me happy. I find I keep sneaking peeks at him as he sits pinned to my studio wall. His smile is so infectious that I end up smiling when I look at him…
Art is supposed to provoke a response – a smile bursting with happiness, I think, is a good one 🙂
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“The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world.
Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know. It may be a view of the world singularly different from our own. Or one so close, it seems miraculous, as if the artist is looking through our own eyes. In either case, the artist’s perception reminds us of who we are and who we can be.
One reason art resonates is because human beings are so similar. We’re attracted to the shared experience held within the work. Including the perfection in it. We recognise some part of ourselves and feel understood. And connected.”
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Don’t learn to paint- Paint to learn.
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Someone asked me why I paint so much. The answer is simple – There is always so much more to learn – that exercise is never-ending. And of course, like any learning, the process becomes meditative. In this very hurried existence of modern city life, it calms me.
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This piece was about getting the expression in his eyes just right. I am getting better at anticipating what the paper will do next. I am not fighting with it anymore. We have come to an understanding of how much punishment the paper will take and how much patience I must have 🙂
It is an ongoing process of removing and adding pigment to get the desired result. One that emerges just exactly as it wants to. The painting takes on a life of its own.
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I am enjoying this new series of sketched paintings for want of a better word. I love the spontaneity…
This next series is painted on post-production waste paper from my foray into digital printing for my product line on @studio.artbyaarohi
