Is Drawing your Passion?
By Cleofe
@mackiejp (374)
Philippines
March 10, 2010 5:44pm CST
I always consider myself an apprentice artist. Critics are always my mentor to see what I need to improve and compliments are my best teachers to keep me going. When I was on my teen age years I spent more time in my passion to paint, to draw, to sculpt...When I got married I left my passion on a shelf for awhile, I focused on becoming a wife and then a mother but I know deep within me the passion still here wanting to come out. Just recently I have done a piece that is made of cheap material like quick dry enamel, to try whether my passion still lives in me, and yes! it's still so much alive.I started to paint again December last year and It is now on our wall at home after 2 months.
To all who loves to draw, do you draw out of passion or just because it is a requirement to accomplish?
5 responses
@Jekar727 (140)
• Philippines
11 Mar 10
Drawing is a way to express our creativity, it had been my passion when I was still in grade school and high school years. I use to draw cartoon characters and faces of people and the result are not so beautiful but I felt proud to what I've done. To draw is really a passion. Maybe if I have time I'll draw a portrait of your face Mack, just kidding :)
@zlq100120 (28)
• China
15 Mar 10
My major is painting, but I don't have too much passion.
When I was 5 years old, I have started to learn painting, and now I study it more than 10 years, sometimes I think it's boring!
@mackiejp (374)
• Philippines
15 Mar 10
I always wanted to take up Fine Arts in College only that in the university where my parents chose me to enroll did not offer that course. But, I was just so lucky that when I enrolled in college though I took up a course that has nothing to do with paintings, I found the right venue for me right in the same university, when they founded a core group for young aspiring artists, and I was lucky to pass the screening and I belonged to the pioneer group. My parents knew then that I have this passion within me, so they sent me to a summer art class for two consecutive years. On 1996, I started charcoal, chalk & oil pastel, and water color, and on the following year of summer 1997, I took the acrylic and oil painting lessons. Perhaps, you thought it was boring but for me who do not have all the time to do paintings everyday, the passion is burning deep within me.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
13 Mar 10
drawing? i tried to when i was in school because i thought it was one of the easiest subjects to pass. and right now i join dots better than to draw freehand. drawing is not my passion no matter how hard i try. and i really marvel those who draw or paint. but having said that i still do not put down the fact that i do love to watch paintings, not so much abstracts though. probably because i can't see much beyond the strokes and colours. anyway, as i was saying, i love to watch the sunset, sunrise, the night sky, mountains, rivers and the list goes on. i love to watch the market nearby. i love to watch the aquarium shop and i love to lay in the open gazing the night sky for hours. i love to watch the street peddlars and kids playing in the field. i love to gaze at paintings in museums, sometimes, for hours too, etc, etc. probably, this is my closest passion as far as drawing and painting is concerned. please paint more so that people like me can gaze more.
@mackiejp (374)
• Philippines
13 Mar 10
Thanks tom, hopefully, I can start a new painting again after that last painting I did last December and done just last month. But, you are an artist tom, in other way... by capturing arts in its natural beauty using your camera. You really knew your subjects, and I really like the photos you took...continue what you love doing tom and I am looking forward of seeing more of the beautiful sceneries in your place, or in places you have been...
