Every day when I open my eyes and I feel like holiday. I drink my first coffee slowly to fully wake up. Then I get up and I can‘t wait to open the old box full of brushes and acrylic paints. Drawing is a pleasure and pure joy for me. It is so easy to draw - a piece of cake! I do not know how, but I always have clear idea for my works. And the best part of it all is - my audience loves my style. It is authentic and shows my personality in a unique way. Everybody can tell if a painting is in my style or not.
Actually, that's not the whole picture.
Often, I keep my eyes shut and don't want to get up because I don`t have a reason. Everything is so difficult to reach. I'm always in a hurry, so I quickly drink my coffee. I do not have time for the paint box. I run to the computer and start making flash videos for the company I work for. Late, at the evening, I have only few hours to paint, but in most cases painting is not pleasure for me. I can describe it like battle, a war for discovering my style. The ideas in my mind are like a Rubik’s cube. I change them several times, and this increases my drawing process at times. Sometimes I`m clarifying the new idea with months and even with years. And when I finally manage to finish my work, it could turn out that the audience is not intrigued or the painting just sucks.
Of course, the two scenarios here are happening to me - one or the other.
In that long journey I`ve been through so many times that I can help you in yours. Here it is some steps to find your style.
First step - finding your style is to assume that not all of your drawings will be your best. One of my favorite businesss coaches Brian Tracy said that his researches of successful people shows one repeated thing. Every time when they`ve been asked if they have ever failed in the past, they answer that failure was a way of learning things.
When I was 12 years old, I started taking painting lessons in a very famous place in the city. I was the only child there. I was painting with older students. Most were at the time in art schools or in the Academy. This course was just an exercise for them. The teacher was coming only to the beginning and in the end of the drawing lessons, used to sit down and correct my mistake. I felt my results were just funny compared to the others. I was for them like a strange bird confused in its nest. But now, 23 years later, I`m glad that I didn‘t stop. I`m a painter who is finding her own power in drawing. It was worthy that I didn`t stopped when my drawings were such a disaster. (You can see here some of my things: http://www.smokiniart.com/
The second step is to try different styles. There are many styles in art that are well described and streamlined and those that simply exist intuitively created by their author. (Tell me down below if you want me to write an article about the art styles).
Making copies of other artists is very useful. You discover a new language for expression, looking through the eyes of another human being, and thus gaining valuable experience. Do not even feel guilty if you fly from one author to another. Try some of these styles and much of the other styles. So you will feel that you understand what you do not like and what you like. Whether it is the light or the shade, the unique composition, the story in a picture or its texture. There can be infinite things that attract in art.
That were the first two steps. They are important. Let`s rest here.
Please, meditate on what I have just written above and I will meet very soon for the next steps. At the end I will treat you with something delicious. Paintings of my favorite artist – Tamara De Lempicka. Enjoy.
http://www.delempicka.org/artwork.html