Lost and Art

This week revolved around the season finale of Lost and also art.

Our project this past Creative Saturday was doing Digital Art. Although I had a tutorial I wanted to try, I put it on hold until I finished my piece on the rein-free, free-spirited horse I had put on the back burner for some time.

It was a day of laughs and curses ... mostly curses. Laura's tutorial left out crucial explanations, and she found herself having to digitally re-sketch her image several times. Several hours later, she finally got on track with her image, and it finally took on the beautiful shape of a pin up girl, all with the use of digital shading and highlights, just like in oil painting.

I spent the whole creative day trying to get the backlighting through the trees to match that of the sky. As I did not have a tutorial to follow, it was a lot of trial and error, and I too found myself going back to square one ... Frustrated and tired, I didn't know if I'd have the patience to be inspired enough to complete the image once Laura left.

Fortunately, I was inspired to finish it within the weekend. I posted a version that had a surreal combination of warm/cool colors (above) and then replaced it with a version where the warm/cool colors were toned down and the horse was slightly darker (below). I revised the original version based on two comments, and when I compare the two, I still prefer and love the initial one. This simply underscores the fact that art is subjective.

My other art encounter was trying to follow a how-to-draw book. I started with shapes to form an underlying structure, and spent just as much time erasing as I did drawing. I anticipate it will take some time before my drawing starts to resemble the faerie queen.

I spent a great part of the week speculating over how the show, Lost would finally end and whether all questions would be answered.

As I watched one heart-felt scene after another, I was certain I would love the ending. Not so much the case at the time I watched it. The following morning, I was more in acceptance, thinking how else could it end given what they showed us. However, I was still puzzled by unanswered questions ...

I googled for answers and came upon the following writing (at this link:

"But in the end, art isn’t about answering questions — it’s about the journey, about the movement from one perspective to another. It’s about creating something intriguing, multi-layered, beautiful ... everyone ends up with the person they’re supposed to, remembering the best moments of their life."

and I let it rest with that :)