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RE: My Sketchbook Spotlight, The Early Days
Awesome!!!
I don't think I have anything that goes that far back. I'm sure my mom may have hung on to a few pieces of "art".
Those watercolors remind me of a certain mural in the pool cabana.
The first rule to becoming an artist is knowing that it takes practice and doesn't happen immediately. However, Those are pretty good watercolors for some of your first tries. :)
I like how you refer to the early stuff as "art" - I agree, it's a stretch to think of this stuff as art, but it's fun anyway :-)
Hahaha, cracks me up to think of these watercolors being a pre-cursor to the pool house mosaic! I do admit that I have always loved palm trees!
Fun sketchbook series Ben, thanks for the posting inspiration!
Also, I just have to say that FINALLY, FREAKING FINALLY this post put me over the edge into a 70 reputation!! I zoomed up to 68 quickly then getting to 69 took like 4 months and now I've had a 69 for about 18 months and I had begun to think it would never turn to 70, but this post did it. Whoohoooo!!!
Well, I've been at 64 and holding so, I guess it's all perspective ;) In fact until I read this comment I forgot that we are assigned a number :/
I wish I could find my old early sketches. When I was 4 I laboured over a sketch of a horse head (yes animals ALWAYS animals) and got mad as it wouldn't look like the picture. When my much older brother (university age) took it to his art prof she wouldn't believe a 4 year old drew it.
It wasn't until I was 5 and was in 'art class' that I learned that copying reality wasn't art, and I loved that first art class, pre school, sitting in a room with classical music records on and the teacher having us 'draw what we felt'.
Ever since I've tried to mingle what I see to what I feel and who knows if it's a success, but I know realizing that duality of what we perceive to what we feel has always stayed with me.
I love hearing this story about your horse drawing as a 4 year old! Copying can be a great exercise for sure but you're right, at some point we have to move past it in order to actually be creating. I have very sweet memories of my high school life drawing class listening to classical music and feeling the lines rather than trying to realistically draw the model. I think you do an exemplary job of mingling what you see and feel and it's one of the reasons your drawings/paintings/designs are so compelling! (you also have an experienced eye ;-)))
Oh yes, and your reputation DOES matter a lot! It basically shows our value. It's part of why our posts get seen and if someone comes to our blog for the first time, our reputation really makes a difference. 64 is very good for the time you've been here.
Ok and I just looked at my rep and it's only showing 69 on my blog but on steemd.com, it shows as 70....go figure!