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Just a question...
What drives you to paint/draw?
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for me up till last month it was the only way I could express the things inside of me that I was suppressing... but since being here I've changed my outlook on more than how I paint it's deeper, the art I've seen from other people on here has allowed me to see the things inside myself that I'm currently painting, nice things 
and not just seeing the art it's more the attitude of the artists on here thats helped me
and not just seeing the art it's more the attitude of the artists on here thats helped me
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oh wow... I hope he works out his issues and unblocks me so I can sleep at night again :vs_cool:
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artists don't create anything.....
when we view the kind of art that's SO powerful that we don't know how to feel about it... it's a gift to us, because it makes us explore ourselves.
well... do you think the artist who expressed it knew what they were feeling?
get me?
when we view the kind of art that's SO powerful that we don't know how to feel about it... it's a gift to us, because it makes us explore ourselves.
well... do you think the artist who expressed it knew what they were feeling?
get me?
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Meli I'm so sorry you are being subjected to this rudeness. This is not the first time @just has played the bully role. Hopefully @dickhutchings or @Bushcraftonfire or @Cricket VS will attend to the matter.
I think your question is a very good one. The reason I got into painting was because I knew I needed a hobby as therapy for my depression. I tried crocheting but after 5 blankets (one for each grand kid) I got tired of it. So I went to a painting workshop just to see if I would like to paint.....After that a new world opened up and it has been excellent therapy for me.
I think your question is a very good one. The reason I got into painting was because I knew I needed a hobby as therapy for my depression. I tried crocheting but after 5 blankets (one for each grand kid) I got tired of it. So I went to a painting workshop just to see if I would like to paint.....After that a new world opened up and it has been excellent therapy for me.
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Bravo Just.
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I think you're a fab artist just! especially love your horses
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All I can say is I've always done it. I have never formally studied painting, but my lifelong pursuit of art has led me to discover my passion: an experimental medium I have developed myself, using crushed minerals as a rough pigment. The world I am painting is unseen, yet I can feel it. And I spend my days catching glimpses of it in the way light bends around a ferris wheel at day's end or the way trees look as you bike past them on a summer day. Color, form, light , all of these are tools (often inadequate) to communicate the unsayable something that rises up in my chest to be spoken.\
And that makes me paint !
And that makes me paint !
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Might as well ask me what drives me to breathe. :biggrin:
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There's more to you than meets the eye. That being said, go strangle a doll the next time you feel the swell of indignation coming on, that's what I do. ;-)
Have a good day, just.
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I'm quite selfishly motivated by the rush I feel when I make something that freakin' rocks. I'm also selfishly motivated by how good it feels to make something for someone else that they agree freakin' rocks. I'm also motivated by the knowledge that practice makes perfect, as evidenced by me taking on and whipping a medium that has kicked my own butt in the past: watercolor. And I'm additionally motivated by the knowledge that I'm 56 years old, have a crappy 401K, and will be able to use some retirement income in the future. Building a nice inventory of art will help there.
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