Embrace Fearlessness: Art Tutorial

you know a lot of days I just don't know what to paint and I just show up at work I do a feelings check I go how am I feeling and then I start there and sometimes I don't even know how I'm feeling that's how disconnected I am from my emotions so in that case I just fake it you know the way most of us do how are you doing great fine am I great am I fine I don't know so we'll start with the most iconic un unversal symbol for joy and happiness a happy

face right is that how I'm feeling today I don't know let's find out so there's that you know it it is weird if you look at it here's the happy face uh which emotes the emotions of joy happiness exuberance well let's let's keep going once I can identify or at least fake how I'm feeling then I go to what color color am I feeling am I feeling and I feel a little orange today so I add some orange and then as I look at this another emotion comes up which is this is a lie cuz

I'm not feeling I'm I'm feeling very frazzled and annoyed and frustrated so this this is not working for me so I start to blot that out I'm excited right now why am I excited because I'm a little bit nervous I'm a little bit scared and I don't know what's going to happen with this painting and it's always a strange experience to paint on camera cuz you don't know what's going to [Music] happen I'm feeling I'm feeling kind of like a trickster today a little bit mischievous a little bit immature and I like it and some

of you are very immature I asked you what I should paint and it's like all fart and flatulent and toilet humor and I like it so here we go I'm feeling some pinks I'm feeling some greens where are you going with this well I I don't know I don't know so you just go and sometimes I just don't even like white paper so I just like start blotting that out all right let's just let's start with that okay when you're lost let's just let's just get get get grounded and just let's get a background going

huh well you call that a background well I don't know I don't know what it is it is what it is this is a sky well if that's the sky the is the grass why is the well sometimes you feel a little feel upside down this is if this is your impression of doing like a Bob rosting it's going horribly well that's not a good attitude to have here's a little a little beautiful tree here's another little beautiful tree wow Dave you really don't know how to draw I I actually do I'm really a good

artist and I don't appreciate that kind of negative selft talk you know we could play this game I could tell you why you suck at Art but I'm not going to do that oh you do want me to tell about you okay let's get into it Dave please tell me why you think my art sucks well I don't think your art sucks I know it sucks it's bad well that's not positive no [ __ ] Sherlock your Art's not that great either Dave well you don't think I know that of course I know that but

we're not talking about me right now we're talking about you and I'm telling you why your art is dog and horrible but it doesn't have to be well can you please enlighten us then Master teacher why you think our art looks so so horrible well the reason why your art sucks is cuz you kind of suck sorry had to say it the reason why your art sucks is cuz you're kind of a [ __ ] wow really coming in with the negativity today well look this is what I need to say okay like if you're

an artist and you're watching this right now then and when I say artist like whatever whatever your art is ballet dancing Ceramics making plates painting music music designing logos or cars or I don't know I don't know what your art is and you have become well known in your community and your friends that that's what you do and that's what you're known as right you don't think I know this looks like [ __ ] right now you don't think I know that you don't think I'm not aware of how horrible this looks well guess what

it's the best drawing I've ever done in my life because I don't care I'm free and I'm expressing myself and whatever is coming up I'm not judging it and I'm just letting it happen can you say the same I don't think so and that's why your art sucks because when you create you're constantly judging yourself is this good is this good is this good and your ego is attached to it and then you start getting scared because you already know what you already know you don't know what you don't know when I know then I

know when I don't know then I don't know you already know what you already know muscle memory technique proficiency whatever you want to call it you already know that but there's another side of you that you're scared of you get a little bit nervous and by doing that you may look like a damn fool you may look like a damn fool when you go there because you don't know how to do that and by taking that chance by taking that risk you may fail you probably will fail but only by taking that leap can you

grow so if you're listening to this today and you're and you just got this on in the background and you're like I'm about to get into some [ __ ] but I'm a little bit nervous good harness that nervousness and go with it what do you mean there's something in your art in your craft that you can do today that you've never done before and by doing it you may ruin your car you may ruin the painting you may ruin that glass you may ruin that dish but by doing that you're going to challenge yourself

and you're going to put yourself out there today I already know how to draw an eye easy for me easy work this is easy I don't even have to look while I do this I already know how to draw Ane I could draw a nose there it is I could draw another eye there it is easy this is nothing for me but what if I put an eye here what if I put the mouth here what if I put another nose here did I ruin the painting or did I just make it better it doesn't

matter you got to separate from good the worst why it sucks it's the best want we want to get past that today and have it just be the art of art making Mark making whatever it is it's not good it's not bad well you can't do that with food Dave people got to eat it what if I just do what you're doing with food and then I create poison and someone dies well don't eat it then I'm just talking about in this kind of situation where it's not like for death we just make beautiful art

all right we just make a circle that's the other thing you know how to make a shape everybody knows how to make a circle sometimes you don't know what to do you just start making a shape all right just start making a sick shape and then try not to think too much how many of you out there have gone skydiving right it's a parachute right you're not going to die well I guess some people do die but most of you are not going to die right so if you just think about it like that just

think about it like that today take a leap for nobody else but yourself take a leap and jump out that jump out that window and see what happens see what see what comes up see what you feel then when you take that big shot that big chance right everyone here took that shot right but at some point everyone in here has to take some kind of a leap of faith when they ask someone out when they say I think I'm good enough to try like you know how much courage it takes to take a piece

of paper or canvas and hang it on the wall and say look at what I did look at what's inside me right so that takes courage so today I want you to harness that same courage that you had once now that you're not set in your ways I want you to take that chance not for me not cuz I'm telling you but just because you care about yourself and your growth not just as an artist but as a human being and you want to see yourself grow right and take that shot take that chance take

that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance take that chance and see what happens I mean and and even what I'm doing right now it's not the most natural Comfort comfortable thing to be talking while drawing I like to focus on one thing at a time is as we all know there's no real such thing as multitasking right something's going to suffer if I was sitting and just talking to you then that's more powerful for

me at least than to to talk while drawing something so something's got to give but right now this is the choice I'm making for myself and whatever is happening right now just moving these pigments around you know it's always a bold move to start introducing the color black into something cuz it's overpowers everything but this now is a more accurate depiction of how I'm feeling inside today which is not that happy I mean the and the and the and the healing thing here is I'm never going to hang this painting on the wall and you

guys already know I'll probably rip this up after I'm done but by accurately depicting how I'm feeling through the just the motion of Mark making and creating shapes and using colors I already feel better so actually this is a lie now cuz this is how I felt at the beginning of this but this is actually not how I feel now actually I actually now I do feel [Applause] happy and so this is how I feel now charge