Aloha! so .... yesterday I painted or at least I tried... It´s confusing to me if I was painting or I was illustrating... is all relative... I did it on canvas and I used brushes... (that doesn´t mean I was painting)... I did it because I´ve been having this desire to paint for a few weeks now. I did it based on some old drawings I´ve been keeping safe for better times... (I have many of those, I also have 2 children stories and 2 novels in the same drawer... just waiting... the novels are waiting to be finished... need time to write...) I painted once... On canvas and with oil... I painted women... it was a sad time and I just put some canvas on the wall and started painting like a MANIAC... it was therapy... (you can see them here: https://flickr/photos/norma_andreu/sets/72157604238692169/ I loved the smell of the oil painting all around my apartment... filled my soul with happiness and helped me survive... Was the time of the hurricane... the first BIG HURRICANE in my life... I was young... I was in another country, I was divorcing and I had to restart my life ALL OVER AGAIN... I did what any crazy señorita in her decent mind would do... I got a new cat (Metaphore) -cause the old cat Napoleon had to stay behind- got myself some brushes and paint... and started painting... after these paintings I didn´t paint again... I started playing with paper collage... and then the sewing machine came and well... you know the rest... As I was saying... I´ve been having the desire to paint for a few weeks now... I´m searching... is not easy to find myself in this world (the painting world) I already found myself in the illustration world and took me almost 10 years to do that... (is not an easy quest) so... while I walk the new path... while I search for the right content and ways... I´ll just keep painting or illustrating I´ll start small... I want to get big... but one cannot eat the whole cookie in one bite... One has to learn to walk first... then you can run... I´ll try to define myself again... (not an easy thing to do) but as I was saying... I´ve been having the desire to paint for a few weeks now... and I´m searching... have a LOVELY DAY!
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:07:20 +0000