Light and temperature in painting

Light and temperature in painting

​I have uploaded some of my drawings on Pixabay that I would like to share with everyone. Among them, my blue betta fish is loved a lot. I feel happy and rewarded that this little painting is giving people joy. Above all, I accidentally discovered a wonderful YouTube channel that featured my paintings and beautiful songs.

​This site is by an artist named 'Tomoni Kato' and was used as a backgound image for her song 'The sound of Light'. I would like to express my gratitude to her for kindly citing the source of her picture and posting the song that goes with this image.

​This little blue betta is painted in watercolor on letter size paper. Before I drew this picture, I went through an indescribable slump. And the image that came to mind when I was just starting to come out of this creative pain was this blue betta fish. Perhaps this little fish is like a small ray of light that moves freely, free from the pain of artistic creation. Since drawing this fish, I have created an unprecedented amount of work. So this picture is very precious to me. And I wanted to share this experience, so I uploaded it to Pixabay.

​If, as an artist, you sometimes feel infinite joy and satisfaction from creating something, but at the same time suffer from the pain of creation, I hope that this Blue Betta will be like a Betta fish that breaks through the obstacles and begins to move.
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And strangely enough, the paintings containing such aspirations and invisible messages touched the hearts of others. The paintings are not surprisingly elaborate, large, or new, but they seem to convey an invisible message.

​Another painting of mine that is popular with the public is the candle painting below.

​When drawing this picture, it is time to think about the temperature the picture has. Just like my philosophy that a painting must be different from a photograph, I wanted to draw a painting that could feel temperature. I hope that when you look at my paintings, you feel warm energy and feel bright and comfortable. I drew the small watercolor painting below with this invisible message.
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​And it seems that this message is being sufficiently conveyed. While painting the two paintings above, I discovered my vision and mission as an artist.

​In the age of artificial intelligence, where technology is trying to swallow and dominate literature and art, I have many concerns about how to live as an artist. People tell me to look at photos and draw. “What are you going to do by drawing the images that come to mind?” Conversely, there are people who support and encourage me to draw images that come to mind.

​I believe that drawing after a photo means looking at the world from the angle of the photo. So, if possible, I want to see the world from my own angle, so I draw the image that comes to me. 

​Of course, you can also view photos. I also look at photos for reference when I have a vague memory of a certain shape. I have students look at photos as a study of form,too.
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However I watch group exhibitions of large, old organizations such as the Watercolor Association on YouTube. And it is easy to discover that some of the paintings were drawn from photographs. As a human being and an artist, I want to believe in my own imagination, senses, and my own perspective. It's like the Homo sapiens in the Altamira cave paintings who energetically painted even when there were no photographs. Will there ever come a day when these small efforts of mine will be understood? I think we need to hurry up now before artificial intelligence takes over human dreams in the distant future, or even the not-too-distant future.
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