I don't think I'm ever going to paint anymore ever. Not because I don't like it but I don't think I'll ever have the time & patience to deal with the mess. Besides, I'm a person with many interests and painting had been one of my past interest back in secondary school. I upload these paintings on the blog coz I hope to show to my grandchildren, see... hot grandmama also used to know how to paint (a little bit)
To tell the truth, all of these paintings are copied from pictures I saw from magazines, wrappers, etc. I have exactly no imagination of my own. Anyway, copying had not be so easy either.
I used to get Cs and Ds for my art subject, & then I read about the pitiful story of Vincent Van Gogh. It's about a man who had a deep love for art and he attended some sort of an art school and his teacher told him that he had no talent whatsoever. Luck was never on his side, his paintings can't be sold for even the cheapest price and he also failed miserably in his love life to the extent that he cut his own ear. But when he died people start noticing the value of his works.
Reading his autobiography suddenly spurred the interest in me & suddenly I started getting As for my art subject. But I can only copy other people's works and thus I admit I have no talent. The moral to me was, even you have no talent, if believe that you can do it, you surely can do it. Just like Nike slogan which I like very much 'Just Do It'. Having no talent only means that you do it at slower pace and at slightly lower quality than those who have got the talent but... YOU STILL CAN DO IT!!
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