Bring Art to Life

Paint with your emotions.  Not your eyes.  Not with what you see.  Not the surface.  But what’s underneath it all.  What you feel.  Where it all connects and pulls your heart out and onto the paper.  Put all your light and your darkness onto the page.  Run your brush through all your tears, all your screams, all the heartbreaks, the orgasms, the little anxieties and pint up frustrations, all the ghosts inside your mind, all the magical moments…paint it all onto the page…make it real…come to life.  Pour your fear, your numbness, your rage, your shame into the shadows…your joy, your excitement, every little drip of serotonin into the highlights and make it breathe full of imperfections and proof of an untamed and wild past.  All the smears and water drops and signs of drunkenness screwing up the proportions…paint it all in there…bring it to life…bring it to LIFE - give it character - a story behind the image - give it all of you - with all of life’s messes and embarrassing moments and out of line catastrophes…otherwise, it might as well just be a copy…or a photograph…or a photoshopped print…what it’s not…the edited version that takes the human out of it…the breath…the water…the flow…the splash…the human touch.  It’s not perfection that leaps off the page and leaves a stain in someone’s memory…someone’s heart.  It’s the emotions you share…it’s how you make them feel.  Put the pain in the paint and leave them howling, too.