This is the 13
th (We're a bit out of order.) in a series of (hopefully) 52 posts related to the book
Every Monday Matters
. I'd love it if some other people wanted to go through the book with me. Contact me if you're interested.
This week I am here with Kevin Shwarting.
Kevin is an up and coming artist, in the Des Moines, IA area.
How are you doing, Kevin?
I'm doing good.
So tell me a little bit about what you do with art.
Well, one of the things that I've always wanted to do
and one day I just woke up, could have even been a Monday,
and I just said, I've always wanted to paint, and I am just going to do it.
Well I don’t care if I look lame or whatever. I don’t know how people teach
to do whatever, but the way I like to do
is whatever feels most comfortable. I mean, you really can't express yourself,
if you've got rules and restrictions and there are things
that you have to follow, in order to make your art.
I think that’s one of the biggest things. One of my teachers,
in my journalism class, Mr. Piltzer, he would always start off the day,
with us writing. And we would sit there,
and he says, there is no rules, there is no punctuation,
You just go! That’s how I came into painting.
I wanted to find a new venue for my art, I think is the right word.
All right, well show us some of your paintings.
Ok, well this one, there is just this one building I had
with seven doors, and it's like, I don’t know,
that looks really neat. I wanted to get a painting like that
but I don’t want to just paint a building, and so then I just decided to,
draw kind of like an outline, and then completely wreck that outline,
and draw outside the lines, and have a great time with it.
Here is one that me and my friend Harry did, he was the guy who interrupted us,
but me and my friend Harry I did this one, and, the bad thing about paintings,
taking pictures and stuff, you don’t get to really ge t to really see
the deep details of all the paint and the artwork that has gone into it,
and all the shades. There is even depth of paintings,
like some paint, some parts, it's thicker than others,
so it's almost a little bit 3D. It's really enjoyable to look at,
in real life. And that’s why you should actually
go to museums. It was just kind of the ways
they expressed themselves, like this way for me,
doing this kind of stuff, just streaks across canvas,
just being lame. Just having fun, mixing,
and messing with colors was pretty awesome.
That was just the least amount of thought
that I could put in art, and I just did it.
And it was fun, it was enjoyable,
and I felt great about myself afterwards.
And I got to stare at it, every time I walked by it.
Cool! Should we try and paint something?
You think so?
Let's do it.
