No products in the cart.
Express yourself! Paint something!

04
Feb
My paintings, “Pink Fantasy” and “Purple Fantasy” are examples of how art can reflect the painter’s personality, character, and whims—or responses to his/her present emotional state. Recovering from a difficult day, I set my mind to concentrate on putting myself into a more attractive zone. I sat down to paint. I thought, “red? No, too hot.” Then yellows, but, “No, too big!”, and so on with green? blue? No, to out-doorsy and open to the world. Absentmindedly, I reached for pink, white and purple. After applying some purple to my format, I began to relax, or at least to move out of the effects of my difficult day. I moved purple and pink around on my format for a bit, and then came out of my “dream-like” state. I started to concentrate on motive, aim and goal. I was actually able to arrive at a place in which I could paint with some degree of conviction; a painting worthy of my time, efforts, and costs of paints. Studying what was in front of me, the shapes and hues I had created with purple and white, I began to see the beauty of a garden of flowers, and from that point, I began to shift and shove (gently) the painted areas into shapes that would develop into semi-realistic blossoms. I brought these two paintings as deep into realism as my emotional state at that time would allow.
Art becomes a tool for expressing certain feelings, and, therefore, helps to clarify and put into perspective the effects of real life experiences. On the evening that I worked on those two paintings, the cause of my not-so-great feeling diminished, as the existence of the paintings became of greater importance to me. I really like “Pink Fantasy” and “Purple Fantasy”, and the events causing the difficulties of that day have long been forgotten along with the emotions I felt at that time. The difficulties are no longer important, but the paintings remain a reminder that to me that painting is a great way of expressing one’s feelings at any given time. I know that the same is true for music, as I play the Appalachian dulcimer (great therapy) when I feel a need to put my mind and heart at ease. Writing a blog works, also.