Artistic authenticity: The CreativeMindClass Blog

The process of connecting to your authentic self, the essence of what a person is.

Angela Maria Sierra, a Spanish-born artist, portrays true herself and the emotions she's going through. This is reflected in figures with rich emotional lives, full of sensitivity, ease, and joy.

She is known to the world of art as Riso Chan, the portrait artist as well as an art teacher currently living within The Netherlands. She just started her new creative journey through videos as well as her own creative YouTube channel! This is something she's wanted to do for a very lengthy time. With courage and determination, she fought through uncomfortable conversations with a camera, she released a fun-to-watch video about herself working, her life, and her creative surroundings.

Riso Chan about embracing her true, sensitive self through artwork:

My work is extremely emotionally charged. My work is based on portraits which depict the emotions I am feeling. I have always been a sensitive individual. From the time I was a kid, it has been something that always felt a bit uncomfortable and I tried to get it out of my system. (...) As you mature and realize that everything is fine and everybody feels different. I decided to make use of all of the emotion I bring to my everyday life and start painting. It is a way to boost my creative juices and generate fresh ideas. This is astonishing because of something that I was trying to push down for all of my life, all of a sudden I was able to put it on piece of paper and was like a huge release. Finally, there is the possibility to use this sensitivity, I can use these emotions, pains, and joys and put them on paper. It felt really awesome and brought me back to my place of gratefulness. It started resonating with a many others. It was a time of opening myself up and putting things on paper I'd never thought of previously. In lieu of trying to be the same as other artists who have were already "made it" I was really listening on what I would like to convey and who I am as an individual. I took on something that I didn't like about me and realized it is actually my superpower. I'm really content being my authentic, sensitive self.

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