Paint The Town Red

How long has it been that you have taken a paint brush in your hands and started painting anything that came to your mind? How long has it been that you have taken cuttings of paper and created a mosaic? How long has it been that you have drenched your hands into paint and started hand printing? How long has it been that you’ve painted walls and heard your mom screeching at you?

I don’t know how many of you reading this, find this to be interesting, but for me it’s fun. To be honest, I’m pathetic when it comes to drawing, painting or crafting. But I really appreciate a good piece of art, it gives immense pleasure to me when my brain is triggered and I have to think of a particular situation/event/feeling and put it across on the sheet, I’m able/unable to put it across exactly the same way I thought of is a different question :p ;). A piece of art is entirely created by human; it reflects human excellence, passion and love to be brought forth. It’s fascinating to me, if I have to use my brains to interpret the art of some artist, it arouses curiosity in me to find out why and how did the artist/sculptor come up with such a painting or sculpture, what was running in his mind when he was developing it.

It’s an undoubtedly an excellent ability that people have to play with colors, to blend colors, to let colors speak for themselves i.e. Red depicts violence, love…& black- darkness, obscurity. It’s amazing to see how people can replicate real life scenes on a sheet of paper through their art, how they can reveal the innermost feelings and the changing faces of people, how they can illustrate the gravity of an event with the help of toning and shading.

I understand that with the trend of using the new softwares that allow you to paint and edit with convenient tools-that make your work easier, have made people less inclined towards painting or drawing to exemplify something. The technology, the mediums, the tools, the resources, all of it is definitely changing…and that’s what is leading to people being disassociated to hand painting, drawing, sketching and crafting. But there are still a few, who love painting, who appreciate it, and who can create works that inspire people. I’m not trying to advice you’ll to start painting, but I’m just trying to say that pick up a brush or a pencil and try to put everything that comes to your mind on the paper, once in a while try to be like a kid again and soak your hands into paint, and impose your hand prints on the sheets. It won’t make you the painter of millennium; it would just help you explore fun in a refreshing way.

And now that I’m concluding this, I would just like to remind you’ll of a quote:

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do”

-Edgar Degas