You’ve been #blinddrawn
This is a particularly special piece to me. Not because it's exquisitely executed and beautiful, but because it represents someone of emotional value. I really spent a lot of time working on creating paintings for instagram. Drawing stranger after stranger trying to attack them with paintings (albeit usually to make them look good). But what I found was something truly special, people felt a sense of self confidence when they were painted.
In this case, this is my first international commission. Again the girl didn't want to have a physical copy, but wanted a digital one. I found that through reading her posts and seeing her images that she was partially confused. Her photos of herself were good, and her images of travel and food were good. But what I noticed was that after a few weeks, she had deleted all of her images. She had an emotional panic attack. But she still must have seen something in herself that she liked if she wanted to see an artists take on herself. What I saw in her was something else than she saw herself, and that I think we all do this. It's a self-defeatist condition that we're never fully satisfied with ourselves unless others fulfill that.
I found that she LOVED the art of her, and the goal of making one person happy and a perspective from someone else about who they are is hugely impactful to one's self-confidence.
This is something that I'm proud of and helped keep me going early on to pursue painting strangers.
I am an artist who finds portrait photographs of people on social media, paints them, and posts it. I love the reactions and surprises that it gives people. I think there's a sense of self-esteem boost when someone is painted (even when there are mistakes or it doesn't look identical to them). The goal of my art is to surprise and spread love.
