I found this old footage of a live painting exercise that i engaged in back in 08. It serves as an interesting reflection at a look at my style and technique constantly evolving from when i first started Live Painting back 08. It was fun to look back and see my beginning's with acrylic paint and character development. I feel my work has changed and grown dramatically since my early years experimenting with speed painting and creating evil yet abstract characters inside my own dark psyche. I got a bit ashamed looking back at my technical skill and ability to execute a speed live painting effectively. After a long hour of being angry with myself I came to the realization and to terms with the fact that my work couldn't of grown and evolved without all the previous confused chaotic and to my standards now, bad work that i had produced in the past. I like looking back at this footage from time to time and seeing how i feel I'm ever growing into an exciting new direction to where i had previously started. I feel over all, back in 08 i was really naive to think that my work was genuine and great. Looking at this footage at times made me feel a bit regretful for even painting live at shows with my technical ability I had back then. I guess i was more caught up in the excitement in the music and the act of painting rather than the end result. I managed to learn from this when i talk to older greater artist who i admire and tell me that "no one ever really starts of knowing what there doing or even does it right to begin with", I guess we all have to start from somewhere and if we really love our passion, it will grow and ultimately flourish into something beautiful.
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