Paulesas

I have started drawing when I was 16, completely self-taught from scratch knowing nothing about art, techniques, colours, composition. What was interesting when I started to draw, I started to experience a feeling of calmness and inner balance, which was unusually strange for me. My journey has started with graffiti. I saw graffiti as a completely free art form where people express their personalities and show it off in style, lots of style. Well being a kid that wanted to feel the same kind freedom I dived straight in, just trying anything, copying, experimenting and just seeing what's going to happen. This would just go on non-stop, late nights and not enough sleep, but this feeling was always there. Whenever i would put myself into the art process I would just feel ecstatic joy and calmness, but being a 16 year old the deep realisation was not there. And so the years went by and now i'm 24 years old and finally this has hit me like a ton of bricks, for solid 8 years I could not recognise that art