| ARTBYCP.COM • FEATURED ART: NO. 002 Posted: 8-1-17 • Updated: 4-25-18
Pearls For You:
Immediately following high school, I decided to opt-out of my first and long awaited summer vacation in order to begin collage. I would attend the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, located in South Eastern Florida, USA. This decision would prove to be a proud moment in my life, as a beginning artist.
Being anxious to start my career studies in the arts right after high school had been a wise choice to make in order to fast track my art career. Summer classes at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale were very small, which in turn allowed teachers to spend more time with each student. This comfort setting effect would cause a better student to teacher relationship to emerge and provide a better communication process to learn academic courses easier. The advantage obtained in a fast track education could not have served me any better. I was learning art and design in a totally relaxed environment, in a school that was right across the street from a South Florida prime beach. I would also repeat opting out of school for the following summer vacation period. This decision speedup the graduation time even more, and in two years I would complete my studies and graduate. A commitment that to this day I am very proud of for doing. My seriousness in learning translated into over achieving with all my art studies and projects. A great example in this of moment time is "Pearls For You Painting." The art project filled me up with pure excitement and a heart-filled challenge. Never had I ever airbrush painted an original concept in surrealism before. I had only done test projects using shapes with colors, and one other airbrush painting prior that was the first complete art project of realism depicting a close-up of the front side of a popular European car at the time and which would be titled, "BMW Auto Painting" (view artwork). Let me be even more honest with you, I was still a pure armature in regular brush painting. Yes, this was a nerve racking experience for me in many levels. Yet, it was so much fun and it still is in thinking back on exciting times. As youth has one feel, I was invincible...with any art medium! This would be my first scheduled 'airbrush painting' class to which I had great interest in and anticipation with, since entering the school. My artistic skills would be tested, as would my mind in order to come up with the next surrealistic metaphysical art. Then while looking for reference images and resource information the idea for the painting concept and theme unfolded in my mind, and "Pearls For You" was envisioned. Anyone that grew up in the 1970s will tell you that the 'art of airbrushing' was a very popular thing back in American pop culture at that time. From canvas, to clothing to autos and especially vans! Creating art onto these things were cutting-edge, not to mention a lucrative business for the artist that had the touch. So, I was really looking forward into learning the new skill in class. In no time at all, I found it more scary of mind than of actual process in achieving its mastery. My God given talents in the arts was no match for the art form, and I soon became quite good at airbrushing. By late 1981, after airbrush and painting basics skills had been taught, the teachers let students loose to create whatever we wanted. Just like my good fortune in high school, I was able to have this unique 'freedom to create,' once again and I would take full advantage of this precious opportunity to become a proficient artist in airbrush painting. Using the knowledge obtained in airbrushing with the use of colored pencils, thanks to my other mastered skill of drawing, along with some brush painting in which high school had engaged me with, I was able to incorporate all these skills with temporal messaging to create several art pieces that made me feel blessed and even more driven with purpose than before. The moment I picked up the airbrush and crossed the fear barrier of the unknown, it was as this is too easy. Their was a feeling of, that mountain I just climbed was not tall enough ... give me a taller one! Afterwards, in the years to follow, my desire to airbrush would wind down. It just felt as if I was cheating the fact of being an artist. My goal was to be a "true artist" and even if at the time it was not fully making sense to me, the heart and mind was unfolding the value of being this type of artist. Other areas of learning were also being adapted by my curiosity, such as, the advertising and marketing aspects in the world of art. My learning curve in the early 1980s was quite steep and the advantage of a young heart and mind was ripe for the task. Taking in all the new education from other classes was riveting for me as well. I seem to really enjoy anatomy for some strange reason. Learning about the human body fascinated me ... and I did not even like whatsoever biology in high school. The art school course of Anatomy turned my attention to a couple of important areas in life, "mind-body wellness" and "being inspired" which would in later years have a huge effect in my journey of discovery and my mission in life. This is something I will discuss in my upcoming blog posts. The first year in school was going great and was serving as important technical and philosophical processes that were activated within me. I was learning to define and gradually perfect this process in all my art pieces to contain a metaphysical construct in various states (minimal, mid & maximum) in layering of messaging, symbolism and meaning, which at times could not be fully comprehended, but eventually each artwork would reveal itself by a 3D construct of philosophical art messaging. The newly created art piece "Pearls For You," at its minimal state-of-being in metaphysical construct, would be my first airbrush painting with a serious complex tone for the philosophical art messaging (view chart) in my art creation. After creating, "Man's Own World Drawing" (visit featured art), and having reached such a euphoric feeling after its completion, I wanted to reach the same peak of glory again with this airbrush painting. Also, to bring another complex art messaging into another art piece with a representation to obtain one of the pearls of wisdom in life–the act of giving love from the heart by sharing. This happy metaphor would be incorporated with nature, and who does not love nature. |
 Pearls For You Painting, Copyright © 1982, Carlos Pijeira. All rights reserved. www.carlospijeira.com |
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