As requested I have started another blog for just my "other" artwork. http://just-creating.blogspot.com
I hope the pictures bring some pleasure to you.
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It has been said that I am not creating but copying, that I am copying what the creator has already made.
They are right in saying this.
But each piece of work is a part of me is some shape or form, each stroke of pen or pencil has taken a part of me and put it down in a tangible form that cannot be totally described.
In her book “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Betty Edwards talks about a place that you reach when you are drawing, a switch from the logical left brain activity to the right brain, that eureka moment, where everything falls into place.
I have been there, but this does not totally describe that almost (have to be careful here) “spiritual” time where, as you paint, draw etc. you lose all sense of time, space. A place where nothing else matters but the subject in front of you.
Yes, I am copying; I copy the world around me but in a form that is pleasing to me and hopefully pleasing to others.
Some have also said that, what we artists do is a God given gift. That it is something that cannot be learnt, that it is something we are born with. I would have to disagree with them.
Is a mathematician any different or a singer or a dancer, were all these born with the “gifts” they have? I am sure a lot of them worked very hard to achieve the level they are at.
In some ways this is a public confession, I have never verbally given Him the credit because, yes, God has everything to do with it, he created me, he created me with a brain, with hands (though if you know the Mouth and Foot Painting Artist, this is not a requirement http://www.mfpa.co.uk/) but He also created me with a will of my own and it is through choice and desire that I have worked the last twenty odd years continually trying to better express the world around me in different media and showing maybe just a little of God the Creator.
I think in some ways I have a bit of narcissism in me in that through my art I sometime feel I am saying “Look at me, look at what I can do. Aren’t I great!” but then I look at my work, weeks, months even years down the line and think “What a load of rubbish that is!” (You should hear some of my sermons, aaaaargh)
If I have to put it down explicitly, I think, if anything, He wants me to work at it, and sweat over it and look more closely at the world around me, then work at it some more.
God created in me the “desire” to create. In creating the creature, the Creator left something of himself on the paper of my life.
I know I can’t create the life He has put in his creations but even if I can show a small part of this in my meagre work then I will keep working at it.
But as I have always said to my kids, “Try your best at everything you do! You might not always get it right but if you do the best you are capable of, you are on the right track."
As for my “creations” judge for yourself, I will put them up there “warts and all.”
p.s. A note to my artistic twin, I am getting there with my picture sermon. Might start with the first seven days of Genesis, what do you think?
p.p.s the picture is some digital art I created based on a dream my daughter had.
God Bless
Creatist
