My watercolor portfolio for winner's circle In May, a local gallery, GalleryNorth, opens an exhibition called Winner's Circle. I am supposed to submit my work here in the watercolor section. Winner's Circle refers to an exhibition that separately exhibits their works for artists who have won awards at the annual outdoor art show. In the first time, I attended the Music and Art Outdoor Festival at GalleryNorth last year. It was to identify the art beginnings in the area where I live and to meet potential clients. And it was discovered that this outdoor art show was a good debut for artists who actively participated in local activities as local artists and wanted to publicize their works. Through this art show, I was able to interact with the artists who exhibited together, confirm the love of art of the local residents, and get a good image of GalleryNorth. Through this art show, I received awards for watercolors and pastels. And in May of this year, I was able to attend the Winners Circle. Although the exhibition was held in May, the gallery side has to schedule and prepare in advance for this event. For this exhibition, I made a portfolio at their request. Artists often submit their work to contests such as open calls for opportunities to exhibit as a group or solo. I have also been to these types open call shows. Before submitting a work for an open call, you must first select works that fit the format of the open call. As always, I get nervous every time I choose a work to go to a competition. When you apply for an open call, a small amount but a fee is incurred. And the more submissions there are, the higher the cost. Since the maximum effect must be obtained with the minimum budget, it is necessary to select the works that can show the greatest impact within the number allowed by the cost that does not exceed. Therefore, the selected work image should be the one that most closely matches the theme, form, and purpose of the open call. This will increase your chances of being selected at a lower cost. Therefore, the process of selecting works like this has to be more careful. This portfolio is not an open call contest, but it is a place where I have to inform the community about my work, so I have to select it well so that my efforts so far are not in vain. I have been drawing pictures by converting everyday energy into pictures every day like a picture diary. Therefore, the subjects of the paintings are diverse. However, it can be said that the effort to capture energy in objects is the same form. In this sense, my paintings are vivid and bright, sometimes intense and give a feeling of being alive. Still, if I were to talk about a standardized form, I would like to draw steadily in the style of the picture below. Painters paint according to their individuality, philosophy, and taste. So, like a signature, a painting feels like the person's unique energy.
From the beginning, I paid attention to the energy that trees give us as a part of the nature. And after 10 years passed, the tree, the message that nature gave me, began to come more and more strongly to me. After all, human beings are a part of nature itself, a small universe, and all energy comes from a single stem. When I looked at the tree with this realization, it looked like the branch looked like an artery, like a heart, like a living organ. I will draw a picture of a tree with this philosophy. And the picture on the other hand is a flower pattern. This pattern was drawn using the balloon smashing painting technique. From the beginning, I have been paying attention to the traces of unintended instant energy. So my paintings have always been focused on movement and energy. In that sense, balloons are a very good tool to express these movements without being artificial or any force. As if painting a stamp, paint the balloon to create a flower. Everything in the world seems to go according to my intentions or plans, but in fact, there are more times when it is not. Just as countless flowers bloom and disappear without reason, everything flows and disappears according to the flow of energy that we cannot understand and estimate. I wanted to portray this philosophy. To that end, even the brush felt artificial. The tool I discovered at this time was a balloon. I plan to continue drawing pictures using these balloons. In the early days when I was drawing, I was very impatient. I wanted to surprise the world by drawing an incredibly cool and splendid masterpiece. However, I think this is an easy mistake for beginners to have. This kind of aspiration rather prevents us from seeing the essence of painting and art and deprives the artist of energy for keeping a consistency. Although this desire and obsession are strong, I keep looking at other pictures of the outside instead of looking at my inside. I made the stupid mistake that my picture should at least be better than those painters. So, time is the most important thing for painters to paint and jump past a certain stage. There is an important lesson that comes to a pure realization through painting over time. And through this realization, artists grow further. At that level, painters no longer feel the need to compete. Rather, I put more focus on myself and try to get to know myself. After all, painting is about expressing the artist's own energy, so if he doesn't know himself, he can't paint properly. It just becomes a meaningless piece of paper copied on a photocopier. Painting has always been a good life coach, teacher and mentor for me. The painting taught me not only the painting itself, but also what life is. As I continue to draw, I feel that I have faith and philosophy in myself. This is an energy that can never be swayed or broken. That's why I love painting.
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