artist
Well some one stomped on a nerve so here goes another rant. OK, what is art? I guess it's something pleasing to the eye or brings feelings when you see or hear it. To me art is taking a blank page and bringing a mental image to the page. You spend hours of your life putting your heart and soul onto a canvas or a not book page. What blows my mind is some of the stuff that they call art. I have seen a guy use a shot gun to shoot paint on a canvas is it art? I guess some one liked it so there ya go. I look at stuff like that red paint splashed on a canvas with green spots here and there and call it anguish and some one paid thousands of dollars for it because some one else said it was a master piece. To me an artist is someone like Terrie Smith, Dark Natasha, Frank Frazetta or Boris Vallejo. These people draw or paint and can cause a person to see what they did and have emotions based on it. I have seen artist that have inspired me. Made me want to get better at what I do. But, I draw mainly to please myself. I have a dream and I put it on paper and share it. Some like my art some don't I guess that's what it means to be an artist you create just to do it. You have a muse that haunts you and drives your mind to move your hand and bring life to a blank page. I never got abstract art I tried but I don't get it. Then you have what happened to me in Colorado I was told I was not a great artist because I wasn’t gay enough. DA hell man so because I don't flit around like a butterfly I’m not an artist? Rich mutants that wouldn't know art if it bit them on the leg piss me off when they tell me my stuff is not good because no one knows me. Then again you have artist that look down on other artist because they don't like the image they make. i guess my main thing is what is art? i guess it's all in the eyes of the beholder and if i can't see it doesn't mean some one else can't.