Yesterday, I forced myself not to think about work and just straight-up, unjustifiably, just plainly relax.
So I brought a blanket to the park and
layed out with my two kids and just stared into the sky.
So after some relaxing time, I felt inspired to come home and experiment with a different style of painting.
After many years of painting in a realist type of manner - I really just wanted to play around with some paint, big, black, bold lines (like a coloring book) and what came out was the following painting. It kind of reminds me of Roy Lichtenstein style meets Pablo Picasso (AND Please,do not misunderstand me - I am not comparing myself to those great artists).
In college, I learned so many different things about painting, drawing and so on, but what I wish, is that I had learned how to break all those rules and just be creative and do whatever I felt like drawing/painting.
When I was a kid, I remember how much I enjoyed coloring. I was a "stay-in-the-lines" kind of color-er, but I did have fun coloring the sky; green, the grass;red, the people; purple. Just crazy - but it was fun and therapeutic -
LOL.
So moral of the story today - take some time to relax, get recharged, get creative, let loose, and have fun. Who cares about all the rules you learned or you think you have to learn in art.
