Last night, I attended another Art Battle event. The challenge, as always is to make a painting in 20 mins. The first round, I started painting some abstract geometry, than I destroyed and turned into a face, than I destroyed the face and finished with a huge EYE!! 👁 People said they enjoyed watching how my painting transformed.

The second round, I started painting a portrait, but I changed it and changed it… and the second painting is the result!!

This event is a competition based on votes. And most of the artists rehearse the painting and paint something “people will like” -usually like animals or faces. But I am not a crowd pleaser, and don’t care about winning as much. I never know what I am gonna do. I let the energy and the adrenaline of the moment take control of me! And because of this, I usually go through 3 or 4 different paintings in the span of 20 mins! Transforming from a figurative into an abstract, and abstract into figurative!! I really loose myself in the moment!!

This is what LIVE Painting means to me! Is a Live Performance! Is risking it, putting your soul and heart and jumping to the moment while others are watching!! Every time I do this, I learn more and more about me as an artist.