the greats weren't great...

there is a macklemore lyric that says:

the greats weren't great because they were good at art
the greats were great because they painted a lot

LOVE those lines.

not sure if i've shared this before or not, but a few years ago, i was sitting in the rinse chair at my hair salon and my stylist was giving me a facial while something happened with my hair (color setting or something...?  idk).  he put a warm wash cloth over my eyes and all of a sudden, i started seeing this really really cool pattern of colors - it was this really dark blue mixed with dark purple and black.  it was so pretty.  then he put a different wash cloth on my eyes and it was this bright red color with oranges.  and i thought "remember, remember, remember this!" and i have.  and i thought "i'm gonna learn to paint, so i can paint those some day."  a few months later, i enrolled in some nighttime acrylic painting classes.  i've loved painting ever since.  i'm not fantastic, but i love doing it!

as such, i'll share some of my work on this site.

i walked in to the class not even one minute late and the other six artists were sitting at easels, looking at the front of the class and a grouping of uninteresting white objects.  they were all sketching the drawing to later it paint it in black and white.  i was not prepared to become a drawer.  had no clue that might be involved in painting.  alas, it was.  and is.  i started drawing the shapes and soon realized i didn't like them.  so i drew the light fixture instead.  i felt very pretentious doing it, and i didn't want to!  i wasn't TRYING to be different - most times, i just am.  and this time, i was just different.  i figured this would be art i would put up in my house someday and i didn't want a collage of bowls, shells, and cups.  so i drew the light.  here it is.

and here is how the painting turned out.

my first painting!  i LOVE it!  it's gonna be a collector's item for my nephew someday.  :)  ha!

apparently my painting style is similar to graphic artists.  bold.  but, really, i think it's just that i'm not good at seeing the subtlety.  so i go for it.

anyway, more paintings to come...

anything artistic in your day today??