11/16/2023 0 Comments Precious moments love drawings![]() It’s nine o’clock in morning and the barman wants these arguing lunatics out of his bar. I’m definitely suspicious of painters who claim to capture the psychology of a person with a paint brush - a bit of cod-psychology, and pseudo intellectual posturing, and you’ve got that good ol’ “bullshit baffles the brains” going on in a conversation.įour o’clock in the morning, a bar full of art students, “but what is art?” Getting feelings out onto canvas, or capturing a feeling through the lens, is all a bit of a discussion. It was all about getting a feeling out and onto the canvas. It was painted sketchy, the idea being more important than the careful deliberation of an idea. A painting of a man screaming his lungs out with fear and angst. The same feelings can dictate the need to express ideas that most people only ‘get out’ while in a therapists room. Conti Pencil, Self Portrait from memory around 2004 I also told myself, don’t correct, don’t stop, just keep sketching and trust that something wants to come out onto the paper. Instead of analysing, and thinking deeply about why, I just went ahead and started drawing quickly. There was scrap of paper at hand, and the urge to sketch myself felt important. Below is a Conti Pencil drawing that I did using my memory, a self portrait, sketched in a few minutes. It could mean something that can only be understood through taking action on it. If the camera looks tempting, and the ideas pop up and spark in my mind, I’ll grab the little black box of tricks and go and take photos of whatever it is that is attracting my attention. If I want to paint, and I have many years of intense experience as a painter, I’ll paint. The jury is out on this, but there is some truth in the idea that what you suppress, will pop up somewhere else in the personality, and normally, in a negative way. Sketches and PhotosĬreativity is as natural to a human being as eating, to obstruct your own creative effectiveness, to block the desire, is to create a sickness in the mind that psychologists have recognised as a major problem. Sketches and Photos I will always cherish each painting and photo, they are sign posts along the way of life.
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