Suhirman

The Painter

When The Painter stopped painting for two days and set back to study the painting basic tachniques, he found sentences about how important for a painter to have a self critic. The sentences said: “It is an old axiom in painting that it requires two people to paint a picture: a painter to do the painting and another (large) person to knock him senseless before he ruins it. There is more truth than humor in this. In practice, an artist is both of these people, he must be his own ruthless critic.”

For a few minutes he agreed with that statement which was stated by his “teacher”. But his relaxed mind was aware that those sentences contains negative sense. The Painter is aware of the effect of words onto his mind, his cells, and his life.

The Painter agreed of the importance of critic and self critic to produce good paintings. However, instead of a large and ruthless person who is ready to knock him senseless, his critic is a wise mother who allows him to walk alone and dare to make mistakes. Only by daring to make mistakes, to stumble, to fall down, human beings are able to walk. Only by daring to make mistakes The Painter is able to produce better and more creative paintings.

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The Painter

The Painter is reviewing the direction of his life by asking questions to his heart: “ What do you mean by “great”? The root of that question is his intention to become a great artist. During his quiet mind the question emerged in his mind, and asked him for a bold answer.

And he needs to have a deffinite answer, since it is a very important thing for the direction of his life. He knows that he wants to be a great painter instead of an ordinary one. But he wants to be free from any body’s judgement. He wants to have his own criteria for his greatness.

Certainly, a great painter is not an artist who stands above other painters or human beings. A great painter respects people regardless of their professions, colours, or languages. A great painter is the one who masters the painting technique as well as respects people and nature. Respect needs undestanding. And understanding needs study.

Studying. The Painter love it, since it is the source of happiness.

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The Painter

The Painter, How to Start a Day

The Painter understands that his way of starting the day is important for his success. Yet he needs to improve his awareness to implement the understanding.

Getting up at six oclock  in the morning and straight starting to work seemed to be good. Straight to his painting without cleaning his body seemed to be efficient. Directly toward his work without praying and meditation seemed to be time saving.

When his mind was still and his body relaxed, his awareness suggested that those are not the case. It was important to start the day with proper steps, since a few first early morning steps determine the brightness of his heart, and so the productivity of his day.

Praying, meditation, exercise, cleaning his body are the foundation of his daily success, so that he needs to practice them as early and regularly as possible, prior to his painting business.

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The Painter

The Painter felt unhappy without understanding its reason. It had just slipped into his heart when he got up in the morning. The unhappiness hindred him from making any activities. When he started his day life by swimming, he felt that people in the swimming pool were so many that they interfered his swimming. His fungal inhabited google blurred his sight and made him go deeper into his unhappiness.

Back home from swimming, he wanted to start painting, start to express the ideas and pictures onto his canvas. But he had not found the book of elephant to study its anatomy, since the day before.

Although at last he found the book, his unhappiness is still dominating his heart. He took a nap for one and a half hours. He had his lunch. But sleeping and eating could not change his unhappiness.

He did not give up. He did not call his unhappiness negative or positive. He just accepted it. It was just like his dark paints in his painting. With his careful treatment it could accentuate a point of interest to produce beauty in his canvas life.

With that acceptance he was able to take a black pencil and a few pieces of paper, and started to make a few sketches for his coming painting. And the sketches gave him some happiness.

In the evening, he called his friends, just to have a chat. One of them was his aikido friend who had had just realized that he is a painter, and she ordered a large painting which depict paddy harvesting.

His acceptance of his feeling, his sketching activities , and his friend’s order of painting had made him back into his life focus and diffused his unhappiness.

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The Painter

In order to become a painter, he needs to be a learner. Yet he does not consider learning as a duty. Learning is an enjoyment.

He has just finished a painting of a fisherman’s daughter on the beach, carrying her baby brother. He feels a deep satisfaction in his heart, because the painting is the result of a long journey of learning. He has learnt, indirectly, from other painters, from his wife, daughters, friends, and from nature, animals, see, mountains, clouds, bacteria, fungi. He not only had seen or known his object, Surya, the fisherman’s daughter, but he had talked to her, intensely, gave her a little present, respected her, and admire her, but he had also listened and and learned a piece of life from the eleven years old girl. A piece of life which enriches his own life.

It is the energy of those experiences, those feelings and respects, that produces the painting that makes him and his painting disolve into each other, to become a unity.

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