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What makes an artist?

Well, in my opinion, it's not the picture, drawing, painting, etc that he creates.
No, it is the message you share, the goal that you have for that creation. It's like: a parent is not a parent, just because he has a child, no, well not entirely... It is one because of the years he invested in his education and the process of seeing his smaller ones grow.

You are not an artist just because you can snap a shot, move a brush or share a picture, not, you are one when after all the agony and the negativity you see around, you try to share and empower beauty that erases and makes that "bad mojo" go away.

The work that you put in doesn't have to be equal to what you receive, no, it has to surpass it, and it has to share a scope higher than your ego of calling yourself an artist, photographer, musician, etc. A doctor is not a doctor because of his title, he is one instead of it, he is one because of the activity he takes and the thought of sharing health and happiness, and not because of a piece of paper and the acclamation of his "species".

Art has a meaning, has a statement, the artist has a goal, to share a piece of "better", and has the responsibility to inspire and share a sense of beauty. Times are changing, art and the artist don't need to stay in the old mentality of premade self-beliefs of less, even art has the power to break those barriers free, by changing that negativity into positivity.
you have to put in the work, you have to spend hours, just to share 5 minutes of happiness, and if that artwork brought a few smiles, then you may consider yourself an artist, and a good one I might say. Then you may say: I am an artist! ... and you may even say it proudly.

Sometimes you put yourself between accolades without even knowing, without noticing that you are limiting yourself just to have an explanation for others. Why put a name on it? Isn't the point of doing it and of feeling the joy of creation? To spend hours, even days in a creative vibration just because, you saw a place for the better?
If art is just putting a title on a person, then we are all artists, as well as more. We are what we say we are, right? Or at least what we put our mind to... But because we do it, and because we do it for the right reason: to expand and evolve!

A body isn't a body just because of its skin, he is one because of the millions of cells and fibers and muscles, etc. that didn't stop evolving and growing. As well as art is not the canvas, the sound, or the pencil, it is the message and its intention of it.

So, what makes an artist? I think it's simply a person who is executing his goal, a person who shares a message... do better!

Best Landscape Photography

Is the name of a great contest held up on the group The Art of Faa, with 262 participants that shared with us more than 400 Wonderful photographic captures.
The contest winners are:

1st place Tom Schwabel with Clouds And Fog In Winter At Grand Canyon National Park
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/clouds-and-fog-in-winter-at-grand-canyon-national-park-tom-schwabel.html

2nd place went to Lynn Hopwood with Pink Lenticular Cloud 3
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-lenticular-cloud-3-lynn-hopwood.html

3rd place was received by Chandler Weber for his capture Sunwapta Falls Sunrise
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sunwapta-falls-sunrise-chandler-weber.html

If you please, you can find more about our winners and the group participants as well as more of their artworks in the links below:
- the winners -
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/tom-schwabel
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lynn-hopwood
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-chandler-weber

- al of the participants-
https://fineartamerica.com/contests/best-landscape-photography.html?tab=members

as well as the group's homepage:
https://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-art-of-faa.html

Fishing for a better life

Fishing for a better life represents a contest with 3 winning places which took place between the dates May 21st and June 1st.

The wonderful winners of the contest are: Sarah Ireland - winner of the 1st place with the wonderful composition called "Spring Fishing" and Hanne Lore Koehler, winner of the 2nd and 3rd place with the lovely artworks called "Gotcha" and "Fish Tales"

The contest was created for sketches and illustrations, both digitally and hand-drawn where the contestants had to share and delight us with their wonderful works of art, and indeed they did. I am honored and delighted to share some o their wonderful compositions, which are a true beauty to see and admire.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/spring-fishing-sarah-irland.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/gotcha-hanne-lore-koehler.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fish-tales-hanne-lore-koehler.html


You may find and experience more of their wonderful artworks in the links below:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/2-sarah-irland
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/hanne-lore-koehler/shop

Why art?

Art makes individuals hopeful with regards to their future. Art can be utilized to assist with spreading a message of motivation, causing individuals to accomplish extraordinary things throughout everyday life. Art represents a type of correspondence between people, a way to share and why not spread some type a feeling to someone.


Art has an impact on society by evolving feelings, sharing points of view and translations of beauty across each ones reality. Art is in this sense is correspondence and it opens individuals from various societies and times to speak with one another through pictures, sounds and stories.

Art is regularly a vehicle for social change.

So, why not art?

I decided to share parts of my creative process when it comes to painting and mixing music.

Painting a mountain landscape with acrylics- a step by step Painting process, made with the main focus on helping and inspiring people to art and it's benefits.

I truly hope you will enjoy the video. 🤞


https://youtu.be/ZwNc2thixzE