TattKttn

I call myself an artist.  But I really don't see myself as one.  My sketches and paintings are an effort to paint a picture as closely to the real thing as possible.  But in that there is no creative spark, its simply a copy.  I look at other artists who actually create.  Beautiful paintings that give the impression of the real thing but done in a style so unique and so creative (for lack of a better word) that it takes my breath away.  Those artists don't have to paint every detail, every minute brush-stroke.  They see what is, and then they see what could be.  They paint the feeling of the image.  I just paint the image...

Ok, so I decided that while I enjoy painting horses (mostly because I don't have to worry about messing up , I like to think im pretty good anyway) it wasn't really improving my skills.  So I decided to take on a bit more of an ambitious project.  there are two things that I have always had trouble with.  Scratch that.  Not had trouble with, but rather have been too chicken to try to paint.  Fire and water.  I think a lot of it has to do with painting something that is constantly moving.  Pretty much anything will stay still long enough for you to study it, except fire and water.  You can't tell a lake to "hold that pose".  Nore can you tell

Just trying to work up the courage to paint.  It takes courage.  For me anyway. The willingness to risk it all. Working on the masterpiece of your life and one wrong brush stroke and just like that, the last painstaking hours of work have been for nothing.  Yes you can fix it, and yes you can paint over it, but it will never be as good as you thought it was before you messed up.   Thats the fear. The fear that this idea you have inside your head is so amazing and so powerful that there is no way you could ever do it justice.  And every time you try and fail you become more disillusioned with yourself. Thinking you will never be able to get