I am an artist who enjoys painting portraits. Portraits are my focus (as of now) since I find myself effective in conveying ideas through them. Also, cos painting human anatomy is interesting.
I have drawn and painted still life and landscapes too, but I don't enjoy it much. Mainly because I can't really convey my ideas through them and also because painting them is challenging, especially when you're painting trees or grass. There's too much repetition and I don't like it cos I don't have the patience for it lol.
One thing I'm also not a fond painting of is painting buildings. To me, there's just a lot of straight lines going on and it triggers a bit of perfectionism in me, that it eventually puts me in a box and one wrong move and I get frustrated a lot. There's too much details and you have to pay a lot of attention to each of them, otherwise it will look like shit. Unlike landscapes, they are more like free-form kinda thing, that even mistakes won't be too noticeable.
This painting that I'm currently working on involves everything that I don't really like dealing with: inside a building, with lots of straight lines, focuses on perspective and reflection.
Haha. I don't know why, but I felt like challenging myself and it's also because I really wanted to paint a hallway because to me, hallways are meaningful.
Anyway, the photo you see above is the first layer of the painting that I'm currently working on. I don't usually use grids in painting cos I wanted to exercise my eyes for them to get used to drawing without the use of guides. This time though, I used grid lines to guide me, and a meter stick to ensure the lines are straight.
The first strokes, there was instant regret of why I was underestimating it. It was harder than I thought. I had to ask myself many times why I even started doing it.
Those are the wonders of painting and even though I get challenged every now and then, I never regret the path that I chose. Making art is fun!