Always jump even if you might fall

tomorrow being my 19th birthday i have to write something. ive been painting all day trying things i never done before. trying to incorporate green in my art...YES GREEN...dare i say it AND BROWN lol. i started this painting with a concept of three colors. leafy green, warm yellow, and paprika. the colors all together inspired me and i had to paint with them. but what to paint? i hit the wall. i tried an eye but seemed too easy. i tried a design but too hard. then a picture in my head came to me of an old juxtapoz cover piece of a monster attacking a fisherman. it wasnt the design that caught my eye the most it was the combination of colors that amazed me. i wanted to learn. but with markers you could never get the colors to blend. my last option. paint. since i was younger i despized painting because i couldnt control the paint as i could with a marker so i quarantined myself as much as possible. today i made an exception. i did what every marine does. follow orders and do what it takes to complete the mission. so i took my color ideas and the marine mentality and made war PRETTY. yes i did it. instead of looking at destruction and a tear coming i made it so you look in suprise and like some of my friends...envy lol. so take a look. enjoy me jumping off the cliff i fell halfway to my doom but then again the painting isnt done.

Neat Freaks Can Never Be Artists

in every piece of art...YOU MUST GIVE A LITTLE OF YOURSELF...what do i mean? i mean feel the grains of graphite or charcoal, add that elbow grease, let the art make you sweat or cry. nothing is worth looking unless the artist put himself in it. same goes for all mediums that apply to all senses. if you dont like it then art is not for you. an artist is only an artist when he has to take long vacations because he used everything he has into a series of pieces. like this photo. you be the judge if i added feeling or not....

The Line

i think the line is under appreciated. yes it is boring majority of the times but without the line we couldn't make the illusion of distance depth height or shape on paper. but making a few lines into a work of art? that is just plain stupidity. its like a mom gives the birth and only raises the kid till they can walk eat and clean after themselves and says okay time for you to get an apartment. i hate seeing pieces of art like that selling for millions of dollars when it only takes 15 minutes maybe less to draw it. then pieces that an artist puts days of effort only sell for a mere 200 - 400 dollars. maybe the audience has become more remedial since the renaissance. I'm still amazed at how michaelangelo, rafael, leornado, donatello did their pieces. i wish they were alive to put down these sloths who call themselves artist. the line is only the foundation to a great art piece. not the whole piece itself.

What is Art?

many people believe art is what the audience believes. others believe art is only art if it is beautiful. but then what is beautiful. models are portrayed as gorgeous but not many people know they are only gorgeous because they are so symmetrical in facial features. some people say they are hideous...a freak of nature. in my 18 years of life, my perception of beautiful and art has changed and for right now at this moment my definition of art is a compounds of mediums comprised together by an individual whose soul is not at peace or is not in a state of homeostasis. there are piece of art that are based on the expression of happiness but then again the artist is not at a normal stasis... not his or hers homeostasis. i do guarantee sometime in the future my own definition of art/ beautiful will change. ill bet everything i have it will change and yes I'm sorry to all my readers i will eventually contradict myself and make a fool of myself but remember the blog is for the audience to empathize with me and try to see art as i do and to share your own thoughts with me. so i will end this post as a rough draft. a basic idea that is incomplete. because i still have not been able to make a definition for beautiful to put me in my homeostasis.... till next post