Monday, March 30, 2015
"PUTTING THE CANVAS ON A PEDESTAL": THE STRUGGLE OF A NEW ARTIST
As an artist, I am a fan and supporter of other artists. As such, I see a flood of beautiful and inspiring and highly skilled art every single day.
And then there's me.
Staring at this blank canvas.
Paint on brush, idea in head,
And yet I am afraid to touch the brush to canvas.
WHY!?
Why???
Because I put the canvas on a pedestal. Though it is nothing more than some canvas stretched on a simple wooden frame and covered in gesso, I had subconsciously placed the canvases value above me and my work & ideas. I started seeing it as more than what it was, a tool.
I "put the canvas on a pedestal".
Have you ever seen The Forty Year Old Virgin, with Steve Carrell? The movie is a simple post modern rom-com about a virgin and his friends who are obsessed with breaking his virginity. A piece of advice one of his friends gave him, regarding his virginity was "Stop putting the p**y on a pedestal." What this meant in context with the film, was stop being afraid. Stop putting this idea of what this is, ABOVE you, inside your head.
And this where my debacle comes in. A canvas is a tool of creation, like pens and paint and markers.
It's blank so it can be filled with ideas and color and eventually a masterpiece. You are not below your tools. You are not above or below anyone else. All artists have been where you are at this point at one point in their career. Staring at their canvas, mind full of ideas and drowning is self doubt due to personal expectations set for yourself and other hang ups. Don't put the canvas, or whatever media you use above you. Your tools are there for the purpose of creation.
KEEP CREATING.
And then there's me.
Staring at this blank canvas.
Paint on brush, idea in head,
And yet I am afraid to touch the brush to canvas.
WHY!?
Why???
Because I put the canvas on a pedestal. Though it is nothing more than some canvas stretched on a simple wooden frame and covered in gesso, I had subconsciously placed the canvases value above me and my work & ideas. I started seeing it as more than what it was, a tool.
I "put the canvas on a pedestal".
Have you ever seen The Forty Year Old Virgin, with Steve Carrell? The movie is a simple post modern rom-com about a virgin and his friends who are obsessed with breaking his virginity. A piece of advice one of his friends gave him, regarding his virginity was "Stop putting the p**y on a pedestal." What this meant in context with the film, was stop being afraid. Stop putting this idea of what this is, ABOVE you, inside your head.
And this where my debacle comes in. A canvas is a tool of creation, like pens and paint and markers.
It's blank so it can be filled with ideas and color and eventually a masterpiece. You are not below your tools. You are not above or below anyone else. All artists have been where you are at this point at one point in their career. Staring at their canvas, mind full of ideas and drowning is self doubt due to personal expectations set for yourself and other hang ups. Don't put the canvas, or whatever media you use above you. Your tools are there for the purpose of creation.
KEEP CREATING.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SHAWN HOCKING, DIGITAL VISIONARY
Shawn Hocking is a prolific Visionary Artist out of Keaau Hawaii, who creates beautiful digital and multimedia designs, music, and videos. Hocking began his career as a corporate designer, and created major ad campaigns for many major companies in the early 90's. During that time, Hocking was living in Florida, and had begun to get in to the expanding electronic music scene. After some major entheogenetic breakthroughs, and a realization that the corporate world was not for him, he branched out and began to work for himself.
One of Hocking's first endeavors was Triple3 Designs, where he began to experiment and create spiritual Visionary art work. Since that time, he has grown and now has numerous entrepreneurial endveours including:
-Shocking Artwork
-Flyer Art by Shawn Hocking
-Shamans Dream Organic Dream Enhancer
-Smoke Sesh with Shawn Hocking Podcast
While Hocking is an entrepreneurial creator, and a highly productive artist, he is also very down to earth and has a wicked sense of humor. Hocking definitely "keeps it real". Shawn has worked with a number of other artists and musicians including Nahko and Medicine for the people, Hope from Medicine for the People, and Beats Antique.
Finally, Hocking has a clothing line through Infinite Bit that includes his designs on shirts and hats, and also has a line of heavy duty beautiful blankets through Art Blankets.
-Infinite Bit Shawn Hocking Clothing Line
-Shawn Hocking Art Blankets
In conclusion, Shawn Hocking is a great and inspirational artist, entrepreneur, and etheobotanist.
Check out his work!! Support Independent artists!!!!
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| Higher State of Mind, Shawn Hocking 2015 |
One of Hocking's first endeavors was Triple3 Designs, where he began to experiment and create spiritual Visionary art work. Since that time, he has grown and now has numerous entrepreneurial endveours including:
-Shocking Artwork
-Flyer Art by Shawn Hocking
-Shamans Dream Organic Dream Enhancer
-Smoke Sesh with Shawn Hocking Podcast
While Hocking is an entrepreneurial creator, and a highly productive artist, he is also very down to earth and has a wicked sense of humor. Hocking definitely "keeps it real". Shawn has worked with a number of other artists and musicians including Nahko and Medicine for the people, Hope from Medicine for the People, and Beats Antique.
Finally, Hocking has a clothing line through Infinite Bit that includes his designs on shirts and hats, and also has a line of heavy duty beautiful blankets through Art Blankets.
-Infinite Bit Shawn Hocking Clothing Line
-Shawn Hocking Art Blankets
In conclusion, Shawn Hocking is a great and inspirational artist, entrepreneur, and etheobotanist.
Check out his work!! Support Independent artists!!!!
Monday, March 9, 2015
NOTHING MAN: TASMAN POET, PHILOSOPHER AND COMEDIAN
Nothing Man, A 21 year old creative hailing from Tasmania, is changing perspectives through his work. The young artist began writing at 12 years old, and has always been a creative and rebellious force. Nothings works consist of philosophical metaphors and ideas, emotion, and yearning to be understood. As a young man, the artist read more poetry than talked to people, and because of his voracious appetite for the written word, he learned rhythm and gained a voice.
Nothings work is inspired by "love and hope for a better world despite all of the suffering.", Nothings main love is poetry, because it is a challenge to write. Love, is his main inspiration. He also is inspired by other writers such as Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Alan Watts, Nietzsche, and Machiavelli.
Nothing recently wrote about 400 poems as part his first poetry book, as well as performed stand up at the Queens Club in Tasmania for charity.
You can find his work here:
Nothing's Soundcloud
Nothing's Poetry
Nothings work is inspired by "love and hope for a better world despite all of the suffering.", Nothings main love is poetry, because it is a challenge to write. Love, is his main inspiration. He also is inspired by other writers such as Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Alan Watts, Nietzsche, and Machiavelli.
Nothing recently wrote about 400 poems as part his first poetry book, as well as performed stand up at the Queens Club in Tasmania for charity.
You can find his work here:
Nothing's Soundcloud
Nothing's Poetry
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