I seem to have so many tools in my grasp at the moment. The lovely set of Inktense pencils that I received from my parents; the Chinese Brush Painting set and related books I bought thanks to Townview State School’s generosity; my usual slew of pencils and acrylics; my graphics tablet which I cart around in my work laptop bag but never pull out (hence sustaining some damage, dangit).
Too many toys and not enough knowledge, so I think I’ve realised. Greg Manchess and his recent tutorial series with Massive Black on his work “Above the Timberline” (Youtube video preview) is an amazing inspiration, and has shown me that I’ve always been a self driven artist that hasn’t taken a lot of instruction, though absolutely absorbed any that has been delivered to me. I still rate my best period of learning to be from David Z during my days at QANTM as it was the real base knowledge that I needed, and stuff that I wouldn’t get out of a Fine Arts degree (a lesson I wish I learnt before it had to happen. Such is life).
I’m definitely trying to pull art back in to my life’s focus, if only just to fulfill the need. Being successful at it would be awesome, however if I can simply bring it back to being my escape and to experience the enjoyment (and the enjoyment of frustration, so it would seem), then I can be happy at that.
And, once again, here’s a post without any art. @:-P I’ll make a concerted effort to get something digital down until I get a fresh camera.