It’s shocking what you can see on TV today. It can be disturbing, violent or just plain weird. Kids are, undoubtedly greatly being affected by this. But this is not about the effect of television on America’s youth. Because I however was always an exception to the rule. Nothing from TV has corrupted me. For this is what I learned from TV:
Okay, well partially. See those mountains? They were painted a few years ago after I watched some guy on PBS teach me how to paint. It was so awesome, I was sitting there home, sick as a dog, watching the show and at the end I thought, “this guy is such a liar not everyone can suddenly paint a mountain just because he showed them.. Idiot”. So once I had recovered I got out a canvas and started the painting using his techniques to the best of memory and capability. I was in middle school I believe. And I had to admit, it turned out moderately stellar. Go figure!
I pulled it out the other day looking for new (or well old) art to display on my blog or paint over with something that could be displayed on a blog. It made me crack up. I decided to sit down and work on it, improve some of the basic forms in it. The mountain/tree scenario is the same from that fateful day. Because my mountain turned out awesome-tastic. And I remember doing the trees with a fan brush convinced they wouldn’t look good, but I have say I didn’t really think I could do so much better now. The water was, however, well dreadful. Nothing good about it. So I spent some time jazzing that up as well as the sky. Overall I think I re-touched for about an hour.
I must say, I was proved wrong. PBS guy you Rule!
Kids, you have my permission to watch lame local cable TV shows. You never know what you’ll learn.
NOTE: This painting is available for purchase at http://rmf-designs.com/Paintings.html
