In addition to the growing number of yarn crafts I enjoy, I also like to paint.
I don't paint people or places or....recognizable things, generally. I do outlines or alter things that already are to something I want them to be. Some day I might get to something that looks like something I want it to without it already being something else. You know? I'm trying to figure out how to draw people. It's not going awesomely but you can tell they are people. At least I don't have a shortage of things to practice I guess.
I thought I'd share the people who do the things that crawl in to my eyes and lay eggs in my brain making me want to make stuff that as of yet I'm not able to do. They make perfection, thus MY problem of not being able to achieve perfection. That's always my problem.
Frida Kahlo-
We have plenty in common and may have been great friends. Her paintings tell stories that would not be able to be told in words. She paints conflict; seeing as that's one of my strongest motivations, you can see why I like her so much.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti-
Rossetti is very simple. 1) He paints nearly all redheads. 2) Many of them look like transvestites. 3) He paints such deep and rich colors that his work looks like a gourmet meal.
Totally amazing.
Georgia O'Keefe-
Contrary to my beloved Bill, I don't paint like Georgia; and I prefer her other paintings to the floral genitals. This one specifically takes away all the clausterphobia and filth and movement of the city and makes me feel like I can float over the hills though the crisp air.
Now for the living geniuses! 
Kris Kuksi-
Now for the living geniuses!
Alejandro Gomez Oropeza-
I suppose technically I've known him my whole life...but from a distance. My mother has drawings that he did for her before I was born so his art has been around me for my entire life. As luck would have it, now that I'm a grown up and can appreciate these things more, he just happens to make the most awesome art in the whole world. And with all of my favorite colors. I could attempt to recreate my own version of a Frida or Georgia painting if I was feeling really optimistic, but not in a lifetime could I make something anywhere near as amazing as Ale could paint in his sleep. He paints dreams.
Kris Kuksi-
His drawings and paintings are flawless and amazing, but his sculptures are something to be worshiped. If Ale paints dreams, Kris sculpts nightmares. (If you know me well enough you know those are equal compliments.) His sculptures are controlled and meticulous mayhem. These I have seen in person, when I lived in Hays, and if you ever get the chance to see one GO DO IT. If you see them you'll realize how they can not be explained in words. They aren't necessarily negative, as one might think a nightmare would be, they are just unreal and in such silent frozen chaos. I literally can't even begin to think how he does these.
If you don't know who he is now, you will.
3 comments:
Kuksi once told me that when you draw people and you are shading skin, don't do it in a back and forth motion with your drawing utensil. You have to go in circles or with the flow of the skin, i.e. go with the curvatures of the face. It's hard to explain. He could probably do it much better than I could. That guy rocks my face off with his work.
And I imagine you are a perfectionist, like me. :) Art can make you so OCD sometimes.
You need not be perfect, simply be yourself, which makes your art perfectly yours! Your expression is real, pure and unique...just like you.
If I get to the shading part I'll consider myself lucky.
KJ
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