"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." -Pablo Picasso
below is a songbird drawn by my friend's grandson who was probably not older than five at the time. I don't need to say anything about it. See for yourself.
Like Picasso, I am also trying to remember how to paint like a child, totally free and uncritical. Go to youtube and search for Picasso painting and you will see how his every stroke was effortless yet deliberate, with complete attention to the life waiting to be born from it.
Well, after a couple years of barely painting and drawing, I did a couple free flow sessions over the past couple days using paints I mixed from powdered pigment glue and water.
I burned the other twenty or so pages I did over the past couple days, just because they were mostly testing out techniques, but here are the two I liked enough to keep...
a portrait of my dog, Sky
