I have been bored. I can create things, pictures, journals and paintings but it has been tough to just keep going day after day with new ideas. I have taken to writing this blog because I think we have all been trying our best to just keep each day meaningful.
This last 100 days will be the most unique time in my life. I am thankful right now that my family is safe and no one has been sick and I am thankful that I am still seeing my friends on Zoom although it is not the same as a personal visit. I sincerely hope that all of you are doing well, too.
I have forced myself to sit and draw and some ideas have occurred. Today is Monday so I will start fresh with new paper, watercolour, pencil and coloured pencil. I would like to use a quote from someone famous, a famous artist would be good. I have an archive of a few great artists and the things they have said that have gone down in history. These quotes can really make a person think and contemplate their work and their lives.
I give you a sample of the thinking of the famous painter "Matisse". This quote is from the book "Matisse on Art" by Jake Flam.
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If upon a white canvas I set down some sensations of blue, of green, of red, each new stroke diminishes the importance of the preceding ones. Suppose I have to paint an interior:
It gives me the sensation of vivid red, and I put down a red that satisfies me. A relationship is established between this red and the white canvas. Let me put a green near the red, and make the floor yellow; and again there will be relationships between the red or yellow and the white of the canvas which will satisfy me. But these different tones mutually weaken one another. It is necessary that the diverse marks I use be balanced so that they do not destroy each other. To do this I must organize my ideas; the relationship between the tones must be such that it will sustain and not destroy them....the red has succeeded the green as the dominant color... From the relationships I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colours, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition."
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