I’m BBAAAACCCCKKKKK!!! I’ve been on TVI for 2 years (in Aug) or it might have been 3 years.
I am your basic - I think I know the answer. I try to be kind in my remarks, but sometimes I guess my tone in writing does not come off that way. I took private lessons during my HS years, and loved every second of 'Saturday morning every weekend.
I enjoy seeing everything that others do, and if I am asked for suggestions I will gladly do so. Kindly, I hope. I don’t want to hurt someone but I know I have. I know how it feels to have someone come back and get in your face, to try to intimidate you into thinking you aren’t all that great. I know it, but I also know how hard it hurts when you realize you have packed something away that gave you great pleasure - whenever you had a moment for leisure. I put my art supplies away for so long that when my husband found my box, he came to me and asked what it was. I told him and he said he ‘never knew’ I was an artist. WHAT? I was going to art school and working a split shift during lunch and after school. I painted and entered an art festival for several years.
Now, when I picked it back up he said to me, 'OH, you can paint and we can supplement your income. I don’t want, I do not want someone to ‘force me’ to do something that will take that pleasure away. When it comes to painting, I know I will take that peacock that I started 2 years ago, and finish it. Then I will give it away. I have done several commissioned work. I am very critical in criticing my own work. I submitted a picutrue of a piece of art and never expected for Matt to critique it on the Members Minute. I really was thrilled. That validated, for me, that I could claim that I was an artist.
My oldest son to me once that ‘only REAL artist’ drew with pencils. I had painted a turkey for him. He loved it, but that comment just made me want to prove to him that his Mama could draw in pencil. Two years running, I drew a picuture of turkeys and tolld him to NEVER tell me that I was not a ‘real’ artist. I did these drawings right under his nose. I would draw and when he walked in, I put it down. I don’t think all me notice the details (unless they are ‘real’ artists. Just kidding guys and girls, men and women. Matt and Ashley. Everyone is a ‘real’ artist and most of us want some validation from time-to-time. Especially, at least for me, when we are starting a new medium or just coming BACK to drawing and or painting or scupturing, or doing graphii on the wall and building. The street artist who draw 3 dimension works that are so realistic that you think you can actually look down into a lake, or a building (althought it is on a flat surface) the artist have taking it and made it 3-4D artwork that others just love to see.
I am angry when I see young protesters supporting a viewpoint or try to bring attention to something that ‘they’ think they need to shove into anothers face and say 'I’m right, you’re wrong;. NO, art does not work that way. I want to jumo in front of someone carrying a can of soup into a museam. i know they are up to no good. The Colliseum in Rome and the Great Pyramids in Egypt are works of art and they are there so people can see them and think about how things were so long ago. These pieces of artwork, along with the works of the Old Masters should basically be revered. Great if you can orogram a piece of artwork on a computer and make it almost look like the real thing. I;d rather have an ‘original’ from an unknown up and coming artist who one could say, 'Starving Artist; - come here, see what this artist did. Isn’t it wonderful?!!!
So, that is how and what I feel, especially when I am around others who do the same, although not in a medium I am familiar with. I LOVE watercolors. It has been 60+ years since I have done any and I am afraid to try. But, I will because I can motivate myself when I want to.
I’m 72 years olld, a Christian, straight female, wife to the love of my life for 51 years and the mother of 2 grown sons. One right next door to us, one out in Louisiana with his wife and her daughter from a previous marriage, I have 3 other granddaughters. Both the oldest 2 just graduated. One with a degree in Biology and is working at a hospital and I am sure she must be loving it. Our oldest granddaughter just graduated for Physical Therapy with a doctorate in PT. Right now she is spending about 4 or 5 hours a day at the library in the next country gramming and studying for her boards, between pop tests and lectures. To say she is a 'little stressed is an understate. She has one month to go before she does take it. Please keep my granddaughter in your prayers. Thanking you in advance
Lenora Andre
ArtistLittleNora.Mitchell@gmail.com
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