That’s me.

No, is not on purpose I’ve been like this since I can remember.
Usually that didn’t get me in trouble until it did.
Apparently not all the people appreciate the truth. I do.
That’s why I’m honest beginning with me.

And this is a post about the behind the scenes of my art.
I don’t have a lot of pictures right now, because I just bought a new computer, but I’ll tell you what is happening right now.

Social media can be very harmful if you are on of those people that compares yourself all the time.
I know by my own experience that comparing makes no real sense, because is impossible to be like someone else because we are UNIQUE.

So, social media shows the finish product. The framed painting, the claps in the conference, the perfect outfit, the big shiny and white smile.
But amigos, most of the people don’t show the process.

And to me, the real art is not just the finished piece but all the work behind. Theres’s beauty in the process.
Laughs, tears, crazy experiences, the actual art of being in a human body, trying to share our experience through art (in this case).

So, let me share with you what is happening right now with the piece I’mm working with. Well, actually is messy (and don’t get me wrong, I love the mess too) .
I’m painting in my Moleskine with watercolors (because I’m painting something daily, you can see it in my Instagram Highlights), I started to paint some furniture for the guests room, I’m designing and brainstorming for two commissions I’ve been asked to paint and I’m daring myself to paint with acrylics (I’m a watercolor and oil artist mainly).

It is a dare!!
And I knew it was one. I’m not used to paint with acrylics, they dry to fast, I have the oil tendency, the canvas is so little to me! LOL and I’m painting an asian girl and I’ve never painted those features. I’m painting her because I think asian people is so beautiful, like OMG SO BEAUTIFUL.

So I’m a little scared no to show that beauty. And well, all the chaos with the acrylics, also I don’t have a huge selection of colors…anyway.

It’s a dare. A dare that I chose because that’s something I like to do, go beyond what I already know.

So, being brutally honest, the artwork, the beautiful hanged and framed piece has a lot of stuff behind…like not knowing what I am actually doing, sometimes it has tears, laughs, thoughts, being brave enough to let go the thoughts, lower back pains, bad drawings, many sheets of paper in the trash can, doubts, certainties, research, hours of meditation, tons and tons of coffee…and a lot of experiences that not always one shows in social media.

But amigos, it happens.
Art is not just the finished piece.
Art is the process.
Art is being spiritual magnificent endless beings, living a human experience and doing the best we can to manifest it through art.

Dare in progress

Asian girl. Acrylics on canvas