Recently, I opened up one of my older (but more recent) sketchbooks and started re-working some of my old creations. Adding splatters of colour or just colour in general. Clearly I love colour, Im not sure why. I think it has something to do with all the possibilities I can see. I feel colour is endless, the shades, hues and mixes of tones you can make is endless. I get excited just thinking about it. I know I started to really understand my love of art and creativity when I started high school and learned about all the basics. The principles and elemnts of design, the basics of different mediums and mixing them. Learning about Art history and the vast variety of different styles, techniques and genres that have come before me. I feel like its my duty as an artist and a person with creative drive to try and harness all my knowledge and make something Amazing. Something that will change the world. I know it sounds a little naive, I just feel like I was born to be an artist, in every sense of the word, whatever that is.
Anyway with visiting my older creations I feel like it has helped me get back some of the stuff I've forgotten as an artist. It's hard to explain, but it's kind of like being an athlete or a musician and watching or listeing to your old preformances and learning from them. I feel like now I can really learn a lot from myself as an artist, and that I can positively make myself the best I can be. This is what I was born to be.