Illustrations & Expressive Abstract Art

Creating art has been a part of me as long as I can remember. I can’t imagine me being without art. As a child, I was always drawing things in the way I saw them and the only time I was able to sit still and not run around do something crazy. Till this day, it’s the time when I become so absorbed into creating, I forget about everything around me.

 

What I love the most about creating art is seeing how my work develops in front of me and what it makes me feel. As I am about to start, I have some colours in mind that I want to use and an idea of what objects I will draw. From then on it is a very impulsively process, letting my heart and intuition guide me where to put the next paint stroke, how to make the soft ink drips, the harsher charcoal or oil lines and what colors to put where. It is a very unrestricted experience. 

 

I feel I'm just a vessel and the painting happens through me while I feel joy, calmness, frustration, hope, excitement, sadness, or simply said the various emotions we all experience in life.

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I especially enjoy the end when I instinctively know the painting is finished. It is like I completed a journey and I was the observer letting it all flow through me on to the paper or canvas. It makes me smile, to see that just like in life, it's the journey that truly matters, and that everything is guiding you to something beautiful.

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Anika A