Posts Tagged ‘Red Nails’

CarmineMagazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Red Nails; Wrong City: I create so as not to combust into a cloud of tiny particles of unhappy and gloom. Self-preservation! Inspiration is inescapable. It is everywhere. I love textures and small details. Beading, feathers, branches, cheekbones, shadow. There’s something beautiful everywhere.

CM: Were you formally trained in art or self taught? Do you think it has helped you or hindered you?
RN;WC: I am self taught, and really still learning. I would like to take a course or two maybe, one day in the future, but I don’t believe it is, or should be necessarily a necessity for an artist to have formal training. There is so much out there, so much information and so much to see with books and the internet. I’m always finding something new. I think what hinders me the most is my lack of discipline, which is something I’m sure formal training would have helped a lot with.
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