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I'm stiff Obama, and welcome to another podcast. Today we discussed with one of my students a topic that is very close to my heart and that is to touch, move and inspire to touch moving Inspires been the essence of who I am on the basis of my company. And I believe with all my heart that if you paint to communicate toe others to inspire others to move there, that your work will just grow in itself, become meaningful. So sit back and listen to a conversation I'm having with one of my students about the importance of inspiring others, not only just to inspire others to paint and enjoy art, but to inspire others to live with passion. Um, you
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know, the model for my company is to touch, move and inspire millions of people to touch, move and inspire millions of people that drives me for that Makes me. Now if you notice I'm not talking about making money when I ask people, What do you want to do with your life? They tell me I want to make financial success. I want to look good. I want to be this. I went. I went on a winner. And you, in fact, that's the problem with Amy Clover Short, who's running for president? Is that all she does is I want to do this and I want to do this. And I'd like city there in the morning show going. I I I said no. What, are you gonna lose this? Because nobody cares what you want. Yeah, it's like I did this. I did this. If you notice if you listen to Obama and boo Davidge, you know, when you listen to him, he talks about we and the people and us and as a community and, you know, you know, and and he rarely brings attention to himself and for some reasons, because a lot of people don't approve of his lifestyle and stuff. So, you know, he doesn't talk about this is what I want. Nobody cares what you want, what you what? And but the thing is, it's kind of like that conversation I had with that student. Nobody, really. You know, it's like, I'm sorry, but that's that's your issue. Um, it's you know, when people when I myself, the way that I worked my life with is that my my model for my company's to touch, move and inspire millions of people. It has nothing to do with me. It's what I want to do for others. And when you're in the service of others, when you move others, when you actually become a person that touches people to the point that they cry, you start feeling what what art is. A lot of people, they say. So what is art? Art is communication. Well, what do you want to communicate with? Something that that is a subconscious human emotion, that you ca n't touch in a way that it makes other people move and they're inspired? And you, when you look at really great art when you look at really great art in other ways writing Thea, other poetry, music if you can create somebody tohave emotions, it doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't have to be anything. I don't care that you want to paint a simple little pretty Rose. I mean, yeah, that's okay, But if you paint a rose in such a way that it causes somebody else to go, Oh my God, that rose really makes me feel that I can smell it. I could be president reminds me of my grandmother when I would go sit and walked through her Rose Garden and that Rose there was a rose that she had. Thank you. Thank you. That that moves me. I can smell it when you can create artwork that stimulates people's memories that inspires them. Spielberg turns a stupid clay figurine and chicken wire into something that makes you cry and you're like going E t phone home and you're in your friggin tears. You can't even tell the story without related to it. You know, that's really art. And I'm so glad you got an opportunity. T feel the power to feel the power that you
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have. I sent the picture to the lady. I did the book cover. I said, It's all drying out because I did the varnish on it and it's been sitting here drying and I Finally it was dry enough. I put it in the frame and it looked so pretty. So I sent her a picture and I said, I'm shipping this today, but I just wanted to send you a picture. Look how beautiful it is she was She was so excited. She she cannot wait. She's getting it Wednesday. She cannot wait together,
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huh? Yeah, yeah. And and see it. And it's not just her, you know, it's this other guy that you had today too.
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I was one of those days, like, Holy holy mackerel.
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You know, people ask me, they say, Why do you stick all your are your animals on the edge of a cliff And I go because it makes people feel like their life is off balance. Yeah, I love every time I draw something has gotta be on a cliff, And it makes people feel like, wow you because, you know, when you're sending on the cliff, usually this sensation is get back or watch out or you have a real vertical kind of feeling that you feel more life than if you just standing in a field. Though I like paintings that have that kind of feeling. I like the moment when ordinary things become extraordinary because those are the moments that other people wake up. Most people go through life in desperation and and not paying attention. They're not they're not living their life in a lot of people say, Oh, my God aside, the effect of light is like recreating the essence of God. And so when we actually see that that moment, when life becomes extraordinary, we sense and feel something that's bigger and grander than us. And that's the point that you want to try to strive when you're working with people is to get him to that point. And I think you just opened up the box of possibility. Yeah, if I talk to you weeks ago, it said, you know, you're gonna paint something that's gonna make somebody actually like, Sit down and, you know, be emotional over it. You would have said, Ah, yeah, right. But you realized today that is possible. And this is not even like a major piece. You know, this is this. This this piece is just the opening of that. I mean, I found this out when I was when I was How old was 16? 15? 16. And I lived in a lagoon lagoons up in like top. We lift. I didn't live in the lagoon. I'm not I'm not a monster, but I really I lived. I lived, elect our we had keys and the keys were in lagoons. They carved these lagoons out of a swamp ruined like Tao, but still and so I grew up there. I've always been really connected with a wildlife. And so what? We're living there, and I was young and stuff. We had an early freeze, and the mountain ducks that were in our lagoon were frozen into the ice, their legs, It couldn't get out. So the Humane Society went out to go shoot them all, which just absolutely, as a young kid just destroyed me. Just absolutely, just like, Yeah,
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I know.
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No, there wasn't. And so, you know, they're doing that humanely. But for me, that was just uncredible thing. So what did I do as an artist? This is I mean, this is me as a young boy, I get a huge canvas. I mean, we're talking six feet by eight feet,
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you know,
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stretched and I stretched myself, and I didn't know that much about stretching canvases at the time. And I painted a painting of the mallard ducks that were being killed, freed and flying, um, across the view that I had in my backyard, you know, I released them through art, and it's just, you know that that kind of emotion came through in my painting and people who looked at it was they were moved, especially when I told this story painting that has that kind of power. Music has that kind of power. All of the arts are that power. It's trying to communicate two people in a different manner and paintings, paintings, visual. Yeah, so? So you felt what that's like to touch, move and inspire. Somebody
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was really cool was really cool, and I want to do so much more of it. I didn't do it. It's, like, addictive. I want to do more.
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It really is. I mean, yeah, you know the things. They say that the purposes, like the purpose of life, is through servitude by doing things for other people. If you are in the service of other people, you will have a grand life, you know. And so if you use your art in such a way not to make money, fuse you art for other means of communication to help people to donate Thio Thio bringing cause to bring a moment, um, record something to enrich other people's lives Now where you are to be better, but your life will be. You know, when you started this painting for this basketball guy, he was probably, like going Oh, yeah. Well, okay. You know, you're gonna do something. Uh huh. Sure. Yeah. Pat you on the head and go Well, you know, But the thing is, you went beyond that. He was touched, you know? He was touched.
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He was so much. If he's going to use the logo, he's changed. He's literally changing this Lego and doing that for and copy
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you had you fit. You've had nothing but good luck since since we've been working.
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Get to you.
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I, um no, I think it's I think a lot has to do with just, you know, that energy comes because you caused it. I think it's I think it's amazing. It just kind of shows you that, you know, we're working on these other projects, and what I would like you to do is is to kind of tune in where you're working. T not just get that what you're doing here. It's not just pretty pictures to hang up in, You know, somebody's hallway. Is that Yeah, These These paintings could be all Marge's. There's there, Uh, really a moment to capture the essence of these monuments of thes buildings. I mean, your forte is buildings and structures and things like that. And with what you're doing with these, it's like you could see a whole collection of If you're out painting of a building just because it's a building, you're you're not quite as connected. But if you actually thinking about, you know, I'm gonna paint this painting for this somebody and they may or may not want it. But I'm gonna paint it in such a way that there's there's no option they'll have to want it. Yeah, there's just there's just no way that they cannot. And you painted you painted two anonymous like this is you know, this is to glorify the house and you get the lighting on the effects and the feeling that's there trying to capture the feeling. I have a wonderful student by the name of Virginia Largo. She she paints, she's painted my my dog, and the pains that I see that she she does is just extraordinary. They have. She captures the essence of them. Are there a lot of animal painters out there that paint animals and pets, and none of them can key into that. The emotional since when she would I open up my painting that she did of my dog. I was like in tears. I just I was like when I opened up, it was like Oh my God, that's it. I've never seen anybody be able to do it that well, Same thing with doing houses and stuff. And I've got to say, You know, I've been in a lot of houses in a Mount Shasta. It's always a guaranteed sale, definitely if you if you're gonna paint somebody's house. But I think it could beyond that because that's kind of a real short sighted thing. I think. I think if you go out and try to capture the essence of Savannah through these houses so that it records records, thes magical places now for Jin this generation but the rich that future generations where these places will lose touch. Let's see, I think I think then what you're going after is your connection with that area, and they shouldn't be just postcard pictures of these places. It's the
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human experience, e. I know, I
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know the thing is, though, part of the story of it is, is the glamour of what it was once. But it is still kind of got a story of the its life now, you know, I think part of it is capturing the decay of grandeur and the hypocrisy of homelessness and kind of like having those two worlds collide. I think you could You could tell a deep story, an emotional story that doesn't have to mean that you have the resurrect the glory of once, Waas. But it could have us understand, you know, sad. The decay of this is, and unfortunately, how our relationship with these historical wonderful places become like destroyed because of of elements that now inhabit it, you know? So I think there's a deep emotional connection that you could bring. But if you don't have any emotion for anything, you really should be painted in the first place.
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You
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know, s so I I asked people. So what were you thinking? And for the most part, you know, people don't think very much. It's like they're not very deep and they're not very educated either. And so it's interesting when you try to present something in such a way Sometimes it's hard for people to really get what you're trying to say. But, um, but the thing is, what's what's fun as an artist is to try to capture that for people to try to make them think, to have him see, because in in that process, you could actually cause people to rise up and try to restore or rise up to try to help the homeless or trio rise up. Your painting could be the beginning of conversations that, you know, cause things that happen, just like with with your friend here, he wants you to have an art show, right? Isn't that kind of the way that you're doing this right now?
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Yeah, he said, Lana, things
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that all happened out of your working with him at first and then actually causing a painting to to be to inspire him to actually do that for you. So it's like like I say, My my purpose in life is to touch, move and inspire. And you could see that's the same thing that your work has done is detective
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move on this wire? So there you have it. In order to create great art, you have to create paintings that inspire others. It's not about you. It's about the work that you generate in what impact that has on the viewer. If you'd like to get more information about coaching or information about my PBS television show, you can do so at my Web site at w w w dot stephan Hamann dot com There you can also rich for a free book. Everything you need to know about painting. If you like to see more information about painting, please go to my YouTube video station. If you'd like to give me a call, please do so at 4156069074 And I'd love to discuss with you the possibility of coaching. Until then, keep your precious wedge your cameras bright and enjoy painting with passion.