Became a painter by only painting horses for 16 years Practice beats talent! This is a lovely phrase presented on the site of one colored pencil portrait painter. The hero of this phrase, Leontine van Vliet, is a wonderful woman who is not disappointed in her own artistic talent and has been painting steadily for 16 years, finally making it to the ranks of a painter. Comparison of her Instagram pictures below shows just how important patience and practice are to a painter. We know how important patience, persistence and passion are. However, there are not that many people who consistently practice this and eventually bear fruit. So, what is the driving force behind this persistence? Everyone wants to do that, but why can't they? If you think about this point, you can know that there is a way right away. First of all, it's because we don't even try it the first time. I really like the Korean proverb that well begun is half done. The story goes that once you start, you're halfway there. In other words, there are so many cases where we end up dreaming without even starting what we planned. To make these fantasies a reality, it's time to start right now. In particular, I think the courage to start is very important to become an artist. As French artist Henri Matisse said, "Another word for creativity is courage." It takes courage to express what you are passionate about and to push the limits of your comfort zone or irrational fears. Another reason is that we keep comparing ourselves and easily become discouraged. First of all, if you say you started with a big heart, you need to put a blindfold around your eyes like a horse and only look forward and run. Because if you are going to do or say you will do something, the reaction around you will not automatically be filled with cheering. This was also the case with Leontine Van Vliet, the pencil artist introduced earlier. She says that when she was practicing hard to draw a horse, focusing all her life on her drawing, people around her saw her drawing of a horse and laughed at her as a donkey. Like this, the moment you say you're going to paint, people who see your painting will criticize you one by one and ask you to find another way. You may even be told from the beginning that artificial intelligence is better than you and that the profession of painter will eventually disappear. Can you stand up to these criticisms? I think that persistence requires the strength to endure. It is a heart that will not be shaken no matter what anyone says. To do so, you need your own hypnosis method that strongly believes in your own judgment. 'I've always made the right decisions'. You have to walk steadily with this kind of heart. However, this kind of mind can be maintained even when running through the early and mid-season. There are people who, by temperament, are exceptionally stubborn in their resolutions. Sometimes you just have to move forward because you are afraid that your efforts will be in vain. However, even in this case, it is rather a green light. Because you can go forward. If you don't give up and go forward, at least you can grab the doorknob that opens. What would you do if you came to the door with all your strength and grabbed the handle with all your might, but the handle won't turn? There are cases like this. You have to hold on though. By this time, you will probably be sensitive to success stories around you. Others open the door and cheer, but you seem to be the only one standing in front of it. Maybe that was the case with the painter I introduced? For example, the 15th year must have been the hardest to Leontime Van Vlie. People despair when they can't afford to do anything anymore and when it seems that there is no income anymore. No matter how good it is, you start off excitedly, endure all criticism, and hold the doorknob with all your might, but if the door does not open, you will think again about the path you have walked. However, if you really want to continue doing something, you shouldn't be disappointed even in this case. If the door doesn't open, you'll have to break through the window. Fortunately, now with the development of the Internet, many such windows can be created. And you can show and talk about your passion, perseverance, and love for your work. And so that the steady running road is not boring, we can look around from the horse we are riding, and we can get off and take a break. In this sense, we must be strong again. I pray that the goddess of luck greets you at the end of the road running with your passion.
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Sergey Taran's Animal PhotographsSergey Taran, an animal photographer from Russia, created a vivid photo series of animals. I happened to know an artist today who gave good reviews to my paintings. I was curious about who he was and visited his site with a reply saying thank you. Then I got to see some of his amazing work. I felt the urge to feature him on my blog. Sergey Taran is an animal photographer who takes pictures of animals. According to his previous interviews, he decided to become an animal photographer himself because of the following motivations. "Animals are not just posed in front of the camera, they are truly real, each with its own characteristics and emotions, but existing in nature". He highlights their true beauty and hopes his photos will make people appreciate and respect animals more. Image source from Fine Art America. Maybe that's why, when you look at his works, you realize that the facial expressions and characteristics of animals are revealed as they are in the photos. Personally, I'm grateful to have found such good artists and work in any format. Looking at his vivid and lovely works, I realize once again that photography, like painting, can convey the energy and vitality of an object as it is.
Banksy's work in Ukraine On the 11th , a pseudonymous England-based street artist, Banksy uploaded three pictures of a mural depicting a gymnast balancing on a handstand on her Instagram and posted the caption “Borodyanka, Ukraine”. Borodyanka, northwest of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, was hit hard by Russian bombing in February of this year, at the beginning of the war. Russian forces occupied the area shortly after the outbreak of war and retreated in April. This place, where a lot of civilian damage occurred, such as the discovery of mass graves, is in the midst of reconstruction after the Russian army withdrew. The mural Banksy shared was painted on the remains of buildings destroyed by bombing. Banksy is a graffiti artist who paints murals on streets and buildings in cities around the world. His work, which does not reveal his face or real name, satirizes anti-war, environmental pollution, refugees, and child poverty. Every time I look at his graffiti, I think of beautiful weeds that bloom without names on the streets. How can such a beautiful flower grow in such a messy and dark alley? I think of this when I see the weeds growing between the sidewalk blocks in a dark back alley. However, Banksy's work resembles these weeds a lot. Just as the vivid beauty seen in the flower of an unknown weed illuminates a messy alley where not even a single ray of light enters, his works have a strange vitality and energy.
Looking at the murals presumed to be his work in the ruins of Ukraine, people pray for the day when the war will end soon and the spring of peace will come and Ukrainian children will happily play gymnastics and sing songs. Korean finger stampling artist, GuGu Kim Since 2013, there is a Korean artist who I found his works on Facebook and was amazed at the artistry and philosophy. Most of his works are big sized canvas or scrolled woven linen over 100 inches long, and all of them are painted by using fingers, fingertips, and palms instead of brushes. He painted mostly in shades of black, so it feels as if a single giant shadow is moving to create a meaningful shape. His paintings are considered representative artworks under the modern classicism genre and are praised worldwide. Gugu Kim's work is mainly defined as 'finger painting' because he paints only with his fingers and hands. Just like Eastern and Western painters usually use their fingertips to dip their fingertips in ink and use their fingertips to touch the canvas instead of a brush, he completes her work through repetitive work, as if ink was printed using fingertips with fingerprints. In this sense, it would be more appropriate to define his work as "finger stamping", which distinguishes it from the traditional finger painting as we know it. Gugu Kim dips one or two fingers in traditional ink, then dips them directly onto the canvas and presses them together for finger painting. He creates images by using black and white contrasts, from light tones to dark colors through countless touches, without drawing on the base line or using the techniques of traditional brush strokes. Some parts of the picture are expressed as very small, like dots, but in parts where the image needs to be relatively large, it is stamped with two or three fingers. Gugu paints black areas that should be expressed very darkly, or stamps heavily when expressing dark shades, so that the white canvas cannot be seen through continuous overcoating. On the other hand, in the part that needs to be expressed very brightly, touch it very lightly once or twice to make the viewer unconsciously sense the background color of the canvas. (excerpt by Harvard Art Museum) His works also incorporate Korean aspects. He uses natural ingredients that have existed for a long time such as charcoal, pastel and stone powder. He also uses woven linen canvas that is sold in scrolls instead of the framed kind. Koreans are traditionally called a “white-clad race,” meaning that Koreans in ancient times used to wear white and revered the color. Kim’s monotone paintings accentuate this Korean quality while also following the principles of ying and the yang. But Kim says that his works have interpreted such traditional Korean styles into something more modern through a process that he calls “new Koreanization.” Image by Facebook
Keith HaringKeith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language “I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create language.” Haring said. “There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines, that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.” (By excerpt Interview) His work is always public-friendly. It is a technique that can be easily understood even by those who do not know art, from familiar materials commonly seen around to simplified expressions. The work always has a message to the public. As a homosexual and AIDS patient, he treated the situation surrounding him as a social problem, launched a social movement, and reflected political issues to the front of his work. To borrow Yoko Ono's words, Keith Haring is a writer who expresses a heavy and difficult subject in a bright and witty manner. Haring expresses the social issues of homosexuality and AIDS in a simple and pleasant way in his own art. For students with visual problems, low vision students, or students with learning disabilities, Keith Haring's work is very effective. His work always has bold lines and is very simple, yet easy to understand what he means at a glance.
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