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Sketches and Photos that Turned into Cherished Moments
I will always cherish each painting and photo, they are sign posts along the way of life.
Creativity is as natural to a human being as eating, to obstruct your own creative effectiveness, to block the desire, is to create a sickness in the mind that psychologists have recognised as a major problem.
The jury is out on this, but there is some truth in the idea that what you suppress, will pop up somewhere else in the personality, and normally, in a negative way.
If I want to paint, and I have many years of intense experience as a painter, I’ll paint.
If the camera looks tempting, and the ideas pop up and spark in my mind, I’ll grab the little black box of tricks and go and take photos of whatever it is that is attracting my attention. It could mean something that can only be understood through taking action on it.
Below is a Conti Pencil drawing that I did using my memory, a self portrait, sketched in a few minutes.
There was scrap of paper at hand, and the urge to sketch myself felt important. Instead of analysing, and thinking deeply about why, I just went ahead and started drawing quickly.
