RE: My Sketchbook Spotlight, The Early Days
Those are marvelous. I can see the early brilliance that would later become the you that is you. The watercolors remind me of your tiles of today.
I love seeing the old works of true artists. As you say, there may be some talent right out of the womb, but the idea of time spent and practice given is so very true. I think many potential artists of renown probably give up, as there is so much effort, practice and time to put in, to get from A to B. I often subscribed to what you describe above, "what, it can't be perfect in try 1 or 2...I'm off to play basketball". Not a recipe for high success. Having too many interests to focus doesn't help much either.
Though now I'm inspired to go through the old stuff from my Mom's things, and see if any of my 'artwork' is still present. It might be a bit less than stellar, but would be fun to put them on here. I DO know my clay pots and ashtrays went the way of the ashcan man. Large sigh. They were lumpy little dollops frozen in clay-borne time, but my parents still gave them high praise. Thanks be. Kudos to good parenting and encouraging the arts. No matter HOW lumpy. . Thanks for sharing your early works. Look forward to seeing more.
HAHAHA, yeah we all made those lumpy ashtrays back then didn't we!
I'm sure it would be fun to see your early artwork....I enjoy that stuff not because it's particularly good but just because it's fun to see the way those we know (or ourselves) made sense of the things we saw around us.
And btw, I had those moments of "eh, it's too much work, I'll go see my friend" all the way up until college when I found clay. Drawing and such was sort of fun but I didn't care about it more than anything else really and certainly less than hanging out with my friends!! Clay though, was the first thing that sucked me in and that I could give myself to. Anyway, thanks for reading and your always enjoyable comments :-)
I will try to find some of my early 'works'. Though I do have a whole computer of writings from 5-10 years ago, and they are quite different than what I write now. I should put those out too, under some other 'heading'. At times they were a bit wackier and more creative, but somewhat poorly written. Sort of a lumpy ashtray version of my present day, typing self. (Though still FAR from the throwing wheel of creative writing.) Yowza moment, I think that should be my title when I put these works out... "My Lumpy Ashtrays". Thanks for that.
I'm so glad you found your calling in clay. You do have quite the knack for it, that's for sure. And like your works, I always enjoy chatting with you on here as well, thanks for being a creative Steem-meister. Have a nice Monday.
Cheers.
I love it - My Lumpy Ashtrays!!!