Wk2-Art Experience-Abstraction Is Freedom

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One of my hobbies that I often engage in is wood carving, and the thing with carving is, it’s really easy to mess up and it’s really hard to fix. Find a knot? better work around that. Chip your piece? Better hope there’s still enough wood to work with. Did the wood split? Time to start over. Carving is all about precision and perfection because really you only get one chance. However, finger painting on the other hand is almost the antithesis to carving. You don’t need a plan, there’s nothing to work around, and you can’t ruin your piece. It was a freeing and expressive experience. Instead of working around your work, all your doing is putting your mark on the canvas. Whatever color you happen to like and whatever shape that’s enjoyable is easily formed and expressed without the need to commit to it. It came naturally and I didn’t have to put thought into what I was creating, all I had to worry about was that I was somewhere on the paper. What I made probably isn’t going to win me a spot in an art museum next to the Mona Lisa but Its creation is the same process that hundreds of other artists have walked through.