More Than Just Canvas and Paint
Feedback from Mariel Ypil
Scribbles on the walls. Drawings on dictionaries and storybooks. Paint between the fingernails. Ever since I was a child I have always been drawing. I didn’t think of it as much because it was just the way things are with me. It was the way I spoke my mind and my feelings, the way I could tell anyone my humble yet quite far-fetched stories. There were always the crayons that could create the landscapes, and the pencils that would magically put the characters in my stories brimming with life. It was, what I could think of at the time, the kind of magic that I could possibly have, even without the sparkles.
Grown up and still living with art, I have had so many struggles with this so-called artist life. The trials and errors, the wrong techniques, the inexperiences with mediums and color theories – there are so many things that have stumped me and left me stuck in a stage of non-progression. …