Original painting for Steem. Drawn on thick paper using Faber-Castell lead Pencil, Derwent color pencils, Staedtler markers and Acrylic paint. 10 hours work total.
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The Artistic Process
Have you ever been so obsessed with your work that nothing else make sense except the work? This state is well known for any artist who loves to create. For me this feels like the drawing has its own will. It wants to exist and I am only the tool to make it happen. This redhaired lady would not leave me in peace until she existed.
Being an artist is both a blessing and a curse. The pain, struggle and forgetting your needs is the price you pay for the experience of losing yourself in the work. All thoughts disappear and you become the pencil, the line, a shadow on the cheek. I love the creative process and welcome it as often as I can.