"Don't sell yourself out"

Mark Licari

Acrylic and Pencil on Wall

2011

Back in the day when I was in high school I used to have an obsession with charcoal and pencil drawings. I used to draw skulls and very creepy angels with broken wings (no I was not an emo) I stopped doing pencil drawings because the idea of getting too technical with my drawings was boring me. I have always been a perfectionist and drawing became more of a tedious work I had to 'get right' rather than something I really enjoyed. Licari's work reminds me of the kind of drawings I used to make. There was a point in high school where I transitioned from drawing to abstract painting where I even started doing both (drawings on top of an abstract landscape). It wouldn't be a bad idea to go back to the old ways in the future.