(Originally posted 8/13/09)

This week I participated in another sketch class and struck up a conversation with a couple of the artists  about how different artists have a philosophy about or  an approach  to life drawing, painting, music etc and that it is important, regardless of what artistic discipline you are involved with, that you find and be comfortable with your own “voice”.  In many aspects of our daily lives, we compromise ourselves so that we can fit in at work, school and maybe even family, however being creative is about not fitting in. The term self expression is not meant to mean “our expression”.

Tony Ryder

Tony Ryder

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

So I’ve always cautioned artists  (myself included) in avoiding  mimicking or embeding

themselves totally in the philosophy of other artists. Here are some drawings from artists who’s work I admire –  yet they are very different from each other and from my own drawings.

 

The keywords are “Self Expression”

 

Bob Martin

Bob Martin

 

 

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