This is the first time I've started a Blog page, other then ranting on Facebook or Twitter. I think I'm going to use this site to network my artwork. I use to use Deviantart to post a lot of my pieces, but I feel after 10 years of being on that site it's time to move on more professionally since my skills to me have evolved a good bit.
Lately I've been taking up oil painting just because I've been coloring on the CPU for so long; I wanted to physically paint something again. I use to watercolor and use temperas a lot in HS; so I knew getting back into painting shouldn't be that hard.
Also, another reason was to show ignorant spectators of my art when I color in Photoshop; that's it's not all done by the CPU and it really doesn't make it any easier. The only advantages are in working on art on the CPU is that, you can send artwork via email if you're tight for a deadline, it makes carrying you're work around and working on it at you're convenience very nice and the most awesome thing of all is you don't have to spend a fortune on art supplies other then DVD's to back up you portfolio. (if you've had to buy paints and markers you know what I mean)
I think what people fail to realize is that, it still takes a great amount of artist knowledge and talent to still do things in Photoshop. I guess when people see me work on coloring in my art I make it looks real easy; So they think it's real easy, but it's really not.
I remember one time I was coloring one of my pieces and someone leans over and says, "Anyone can be an artist" Implying that it was easy what I was doing, like i was just dropping color down on paper and the rest was magic from photoshop. Of course this person was not an artist nor used the program before, so it looked easy to them. I told them that it doesn't matter, you have to have knowledge of contrast, color, shapes and imagination. The same can be said of someone using a paint brush or marker, because really you're just putting color down on paper and that's all it will be, unless you make something of it from your mind.
I feel, a lump of clay is just a pile of wet dirt until you shape it with you're minds eye; and that's really the whole idea of why artist are always misunderstood we see with our minds eye, when other people who call themselves "normal" can only look and make assumptions.
