Hey, @nonameslefttouse, good to see you back. I, too, “think I have visions. I'm given clues to my life, constantly”.
The artist, like the mystic, knows nothing... Proceeds in fits and starts, awaits instructions.
Our work is emptying ourselves so that we might be wide to receive...
I enjoyed virtual gallery, btw, and thought of Dali - who described his work as ‘hand-painted, dream photographs’.
Sweet dreams 🧞♂️
This is the second or third time someone has mentioned Dali when looking at my work. Each time, I've had to look him up. Then I see and think, oh yeah! That guy. I am the true outsider artist I guess. I don't follow anyone's lead, because I don't know who they are. I didn't go to school for this. Everything is self-taught. I just looked that word up to make sure it was hyphenated. I was right. The definition was a bit eerie:
Funny how it points to graphic artist, yet I'm not a graphic artist, I'm a digital artist. A graphic artist uses things like photoshop and produces things like signs, labels, ads, and so on. They typically have a job, a boss, deadlines, many tools that help automate the process, and everything else that kills creativity. A digital artist does whatever they want and a successful one knows how add excitement and showmanship to go along with the art. If I had only placed these pieces here while saying nothing, I doubt people would be as interested. The physical artists who despise the digital artists often accuse us of simply pressing buttons and making the art appear automatically. They'll downplay it every chance they get. Not all, but some. A loud minority. I move my hand around freely just like any other artist with a brush. I start with a blank virtual canvas and go to town. Hand-painted, dream photographs... that's brilliant. That guy was a genius!
How's that for late night rambling....
Hah! Yes, Dali was a genius, and declared it himself :) He's certainly a major artist, well worth knowing, and it's an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as him... more than once.
I'm new to digital art and quite curious about its possibilities. The tools they are forever a changin, what matters are the artists themselves, and the creative spirit that moves them...
Art saves lives, my friend, carry on creating your world, and freedom! " 'I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.' — William Blake (another genius :)
Love, Yahia