My new drawing

[Aya]

Thank you for sharing your colouful arts. Great work. :)

 

[Laura]

Scarlet, your art is all kind of "new agey" in a certain sense... more like how kids are taught to use a compass to make drawings. Do you ever do any freestyle, portraits, practicing looking at the world and representing it, paying attention to reality?

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've made drawings and paintings of realistic-looking landscapes and portraits, but mainly as gifts to friends and family and most of them aren't posted online. I've also taken photographs of my observations of the world and prefer carrying my camera on me for that reason. :)

 

[Laura]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've made drawings and paintings of realistic-looking landscapes and portraits, but mainly as gifts to friends and family and most of them aren't posted online. I've also taken photographs of my observations of the world and prefer carrying my camera on me for that reason. :)

You missed my point about an opportunity to train your own eye to see and represent. Cameras don't usually tell the truth about essence. Generally art (and writing) reflects an individual's inner landscape. Looking at your art pieces and contemplating that gives one a definite pause...

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've made drawings and paintings of realistic-looking landscapes and portraits, but mainly as gifts to friends and family and most of them aren't posted online. I've also taken photographs of my observations of the world and prefer carrying my camera on me for that reason. :)

You missed my point about an opportunity to train your own eye to see and represent. Cameras don't usually tell the truth about essence. Generally art (and writing) reflects an individual's inner landscape. Looking at your art pieces and contemplating that gives one a definite pause...

Yeah, the drawings and paintings I choose to display publicly definitely don't show the whole range of how I've visually represented my inner landscape. I think that's because I feel more comfortable showing my positive interpretations than my negative ones.

 

[Cosmos]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've made drawings and paintings of realistic-looking landscapes and portraits, but mainly as gifts to friends and family and most of them aren't posted online. I've also taken photographs of my observations of the world and prefer carrying my camera on me for that reason. :)

You missed my point about an opportunity to train your own eye to see and represent. Cameras don't usually tell the truth about essence. Generally art (and writing) reflects an individual's inner landscape. Looking at your art pieces and contemplating that gives one a definite pause...

Yeah, the drawings and paintings I choose to display publicly definitely don't show the whole range of how I've visually represented my inner landscape. I think that's because I feel more comfortable showing my positive interpretations than my negative ones.

I like realistic art

 

[Chu]

Yeah, the drawings and paintings I choose to display publicly definitely don't show the whole range of how I've visually represented my inner landscape. I think that's because I feel more comfortable showing my positive interpretations than my negative ones.

If that is the case, you should know by now that in this forum we prefer things that reflect an attempt at seeing reality, and not just the "nice" parts of the internal or external world. In that respect, and if you want to know yourself better, it would be better not just to post what you consider apt for the "public", because we aren't really a normal "public". It is great when members share their creations, but mostly because it contributes something to the network, to the understanding of the person who posts it, etc. So, if this art is not really "You", or something you are Working on, then why do you share it here?

Also, read your comment above, and one of your previous ones:

Thank you all so very much for these supportive comments! I find them extremely inspirational! I don't share my artwork with the "public" these days other than on my "private" Facebook page and the Creative Acts section of this forum, so this feedback is most appreciated!!

It makes me feel so warm inside to read that my creations have brightened something inside of you, HowToBe! I hoped they would affect others this way when I created them and I am very pleased to see that I met my goal!

Sounds like a contradiction to me in more ways than one, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Aside from the definition of "private" which seems to be quite changing when comparing both posts, "You met your goal" by not showing something really true, but by only showing a "positive" interpretation of life (by your own admission)?

Maybe looking into this is something that can help you understand better the recent dynamics discussed in this thread.

 

[cubbex]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've made drawings and paintings of realistic-looking landscapes and portraits, but mainly as gifts to friends and family and most of them aren't posted online. I've also taken photographs of my observations of the world and prefer carrying my camera on me for that reason. :)

You missed my point about an opportunity to train your own eye to see and represent. Cameras don't usually tell the truth about essence. Generally art (and writing) reflects an individual's inner landscape. Looking at your art pieces and contemplating that gives one a definite pause...

That's true, just taking photos is like just like copy paste an article about something, when you may write a comment about it with your own thoughts.

 

[cubbex]

What the hell is wrong with my computer these last days??

Sorry for the extra post.

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Yeah, the drawings and paintings I choose to display publicly definitely don't show the whole range of how I've visually represented my inner landscape. I think that's because I feel more comfortable showing my positive interpretations than my negative ones.

If that is the case, you should know by now that in this forum we prefer things that reflect an attempt at seeing reality, and not just the "nice" parts of the internal or external world. In that respect, and if you want to know yourself better, it would be better not just to post what you consider apt for the "public", because we aren't really a normal "public". It is great when members share their creations, but mostly because it contributes something to the network, to the understanding of the person who posts it, etc. So, if this art is not really "You", or something you are Working on, then why do you share it here?

I agree that the drawings and paintings I've displayed here don't show all the sides of me, but I am still working on this side too.

Also, read your comment above, and one of your previous ones:

Thank you all so very much for these supportive comments! I find them extremely inspirational! I don't share my artwork with the "public" these days other than on my "private" Facebook page and the Creative Acts section of this forum, so this feedback is most appreciated!!

It makes me feel so warm inside to read that my creations have brightened something inside of you, HowToBe! I hoped they would affect others this way when I created them and I am very pleased to see that I met my goal!

Sounds like a contradiction to me in more ways than one, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Aside from the definition of "private" which seems to be quite changing when comparing both posts, "You met your goal" by not showing something really true, but by only showing a "positive" interpretation of life (by your own admission)?

Maybe looking into this is something that can help you understand better the recent dynamics discussed in this thread.

Yeah, the drawings and paintings I choose to display publicly definitely don't show the whole range of how I've visually represented my inner landscape. I think that's because I feel more comfortable showing my positive interpretations than my negative ones.

I could see how my definitions of "public" and "private" do change, but I think my interpretations of them in this thread become skewed, because I could see how they would vary depending on what I'm referring to. For example, I have a "private" Facebook page, which I still consider somewhat "public" because I've also linked up with people on there who I don't know in my "private" life.

I also draw on many inspirations when making this art, including what I find cathartic and my projection of what I hope others will find cathartic, so I don't think that was a contradiction there. I want to understand these dynamics better too and see that I was fed when I expressed that I felt "warm inside." Thank you for taking a look at this thread, Ailen! I appreciate the objective feedback!

 

[ana]

I also draw on many inspirations when making this art, including what I find cathartic and my projection of what I hope others will find cathartic, so I don't think that was a contradiction there. I want to understand these dynamics better too and see that I was fed when I expressed that I felt "warm inside." Thank you for taking a look at this thread, Ailen! I appreciate the objective feedback!

Creativity can be a great tool for growth and understanding, to make new conexions and realizations about ourselves, others and the world we live in, but for it to become functional and instructional there's a need to not to dissociate ourselves from that wich we find painful or negative. Otherwise it becomes mere dissociation wich do not help you grow and only adds subjective impressions to others awareness. Growth states are largely associated with ups and downs, joy and sadness, comfort and discomfort, and it is with the friction of these polarities, with its recognition that we start to make more clear pictures about everything, growing then in knowledge and awareness.

The more you try to hide "negative aspects" the stronger they become, if you put the weight in a single side of the scale the other side rises disproportionately, and since the bottom function of consciousness is to know, to understand, we are bound to suffer and make suffer if we don't face it with patience and courage. To walk you need both feet, to grow you need to be aware of polarities and all shades in between the scale.

How would you ever get a realistic picture of yourself, others and the world, if you deny some aspects?, How would you grow and change what is needed to be changed if you don't have a realistic picture of yourself, etc?

To really get in contact with yourself, with others, and maybe be able to help them, you need to recognize and bring to awareness that wich you fight to hide Scarlet.

 

[seekr]

Very nice Scarlet, this would make for an excellent quilt or tapestry

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Thank you for this objective feedback, Ana! One's motives for displaying certain types artwork, (such as "darker" pieces) in a public setting, (such as on the internet), can change depending on the feedback one receives. If one observes that displaying such works in this manner attracts people that one does not feel safe engaging in dialogue with then one may choose to refrain from sharing such works in such a setting in the future.

Thanks for the positive reinforcement and inspiration, seekr!

 

[ana]

One's motives for displaying certain types artwork, (such as "darker" pieces) in a public setting, (such as on the internet), can change depending on the feedback one receives. If one observes that displaying such works in this manner attracts people that one does not feel safe engaging in dialogue with then one may choose to refrain from sharing such works in such a setting in the future.

The above shows that your motivation is extrinsic, you do or do not something depending on how it will be eventually rewarded, and not intrinsic, when the task itself is the reward and not dependant upon external "feedback".

Have you observed if maybe that is a general dynamic in your interactions with others?

 

[Roland J. Prather]

I hang this beauty in my room. Very uplifting and eye capturing