I'm not bad...I'm just drawn this way.
I had a blog post more or less ready, but it was on a USB drive that I left in my shirt pocket, and it went through the washer. I'm going to let the drive dry a few days and see if it still works, and if it does, you'll get to read what I wrote about over the weekend. In the meantime...
Most people know me as more of an analaytic type, but once upon a time, I was actually pretty artistic.
Before I got heavily into the music thing as my artistic expression, I used to draw and paint. I took all the art classes I could in middle school and highschool, and did some painting on the side. Some of my watercolor paintings were...actually pretty good, and my mom still has a few of them around framed somewhere.
So recently I was involved with someone I'll call M. When it came out that I used to do art, and maybe have an artistic bent that I don't indulge much these days, M asked me to draw something. So, I tried my hand at it again, and it turns out that I'm a little rusty, but I can pretty much still do it.
Leastwise, I can look at what I've drawn and say, "Well, that's just not right," and have the patience to keep at it until what I have is at least not awful. And if I don't have great technique right now...well, that feels like just a matter of practice to me.
Well, so then Rhea found out I could draw, and she said "Draw something for me," so I tried it some more, and...well, what I drew for Rhea wasn't awful, but I look at it and think, "I don't hate this, but I could do better."
There's something very visceral for me about drawing. With painting it's a big project, and takes all this fancy equipment. Like, you know, paint. With drawing, it's just pencil, paper, draw. I can do it while sitting around watching the teevee or whatever. And I find it...soothing.
The upshot is, I feel like I should do some more of it, that it's something I should be doing on a regular basis.
I'll letcha know how that goes.
Most people know me as more of an analaytic type, but once upon a time, I was actually pretty artistic.
Before I got heavily into the music thing as my artistic expression, I used to draw and paint. I took all the art classes I could in middle school and highschool, and did some painting on the side. Some of my watercolor paintings were...actually pretty good, and my mom still has a few of them around framed somewhere.
So recently I was involved with someone I'll call M. When it came out that I used to do art, and maybe have an artistic bent that I don't indulge much these days, M asked me to draw something. So, I tried my hand at it again, and it turns out that I'm a little rusty, but I can pretty much still do it.
Leastwise, I can look at what I've drawn and say, "Well, that's just not right," and have the patience to keep at it until what I have is at least not awful. And if I don't have great technique right now...well, that feels like just a matter of practice to me.
Well, so then Rhea found out I could draw, and she said "Draw something for me," so I tried it some more, and...well, what I drew for Rhea wasn't awful, but I look at it and think, "I don't hate this, but I could do better."
There's something very visceral for me about drawing. With painting it's a big project, and takes all this fancy equipment. Like, you know, paint. With drawing, it's just pencil, paper, draw. I can do it while sitting around watching the teevee or whatever. And I find it...soothing.
The upshot is, I feel like I should do some more of it, that it's something I should be doing on a regular basis.
I'll letcha know how that goes.
posted by Craig at 6:42 AM
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