How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.