"Discovery", Acrylic on canvas, 30"x24"
Anyone who has ever studied creativity knows that the popular advice is to bring yourself into whatever you create. Actually, I think that could be what holds many people back from making art. Many people don’t want to run the risk of showing who they are or they don’t know who they are. Since we have more than one personality, they can’t figure out which “who” they should bring to a creative endeavor.
A lot of people believe that if you can’t draw a perfect human figure then you have no talent for making art. I’ll admit that I can draw the human figure but it’s not that picture perfect image that I have seen other artists produce. Drawing is not really my thing.
Rick Rubin in his book The Creative Act writes, “The goal of art isn’t to gain perfection. The goal is to share who we are and how we see the world.”
So, looking at this piece, I wondered what is it about me that I have brought forward? I realized that this is (mostly) me. Colorful, sensual, with curves. I love color. I wear colorful clothing. I have colorful furniture. The bolder and brighter the better. As for some of the other more geometric pieces I have painted, those are some of the more subdued sides of me.
So, I would say to anyone with a desire to create art, just be yourself. Or just pick one of them you actually like.
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