sammboukampartworks

Hello...my name is Sam and this is my website...it's about my biggest passion in life: drawing and painting.

I've allways been into arts but in the last few years my love for drawing and painting in particular has increased....it is my way of expressing my feelings and it just works like some kind of stress therapy for me. Drawing is my lifeline....it pulls me through dark periods in life and it brings me great happyness.

I get most of my inspiration from things I see that interest me or people who are just facinating...I listen to a lot of music when I'm drawing and the happyness or sadness in the drawing/painting completely depends on my mood and on the amount of energies and frustrations etc. in my body. I allways have my camera with me so I can take pictures of the things I like and interest me while I'm going some where. My goal in life is to get better at drawing and painting and to leave it behind for next generations to look at etc.

When I'm no more, my drawings and paintings will live on, in every artwork I've ever made I have put a piece of myself, so if people want to get to know me, my advice to you is....just take a look at my drawings...this way I can never really die...I guess it's the closest thing to immortality. Not that I'm planning on leaving it all behind anny day soon^^.

When it's time for me to start a new drawing my body lets me know...I get this itching feeling in my fingers....and it won't stop until I start drawing..this can even happen in the middle of the night, then I just get up and start drawing and try to be as quiet as humanly possible because the other "family" members are still asleep.

I'm not the only one in my family who is into art...it kinda runs in both sides of the family...each side in a different way but still...in one side I have an uncle who makes manny different artworks, and on the other side of the family I have my great grandpa who was a painter (the kind that used to paint the lettering on the shops etc. this was in a time there warn't letters made of plastic you can just stick onto it) and my grandpa was involved in the fashion industrie, he worked in manny different compagnies/factories in Norway and in the Netherlands. I wish I could talk to him about all of this but I can't because he died before I had the chance (I was six at the time...)He still is one of my heroes.

I'm verry happy that I"m finely attending an artschool this year together with my best friend, it's going to be a new start...a fresh chapter, filled with new idea's, inspiration, new people and loads of new techniques etc. for me to learn.

I'm verry picky about my paper and pencils, because it took me a while to find out what materials and brands I like best.

My plans for the future basicly are to finish artschool and maybe more then one, traveling and seeing the world and then finely move perminently to Norway or Finland, I just love the snow, this is one of the things I appreciate much more after that dark period in time/my life I found out that when you reach your lowest point you learn a lot about yourself, and you get happier with the little things in life, those are the things that really matter.

One of the most important things is to be youself,,no matter what, even if your not going to be liked by manny people because of it because what others think of you might be importent for a little while but at the end of the day you are the one you have to face in the mirror...

I'm not an arrogant kinda person, that people have succes etc. is all great but what people shouldn't forget is that at the end of the day we all go to the toilet the same way and put our pants on in the same way.

I started drawing from a young age, at first I was only drawing cartoons from the back of video tapes. We used to have loads of fun drawing together, but now I'm the only one left who is still realy into it and wants to take it to the next level. A few years ago I started to draw again after a few years of not being verry actively drawing.

One of the worst things you can possibly do is to compare your work with someone else's, every artist creates art in their own way, so that's why it's just impossible to compare, everyone has their own style and techniques.

In my work I think it's important that the viewer sees what it is/ who it is but still can have their own idea's and emotions concerning the piece of art. I think it should be loose, chaotic allmost because it comes from within me, it has a lot of emotions in it, that's why it's impossible to just have one idea/ explanation about what the artwork precisely means, because it's made of manny different feelings and emotions.

I just hope that every viewer who sees my work can connect to it, even if only one person likes it, I'm satisfied.

I think there is nothing wrong with making mistakes..because if you make a mistake you can cross off one road on your path that will not lead you to happyness...I believe that in the end one path will be left, and that path will be the right one for you.

I don't care about haters and their opinions just because, all publicity is welcome, then at least it's getting some reaction out of people, and then again....haters make me famous. It's okay if you talk bad about me or my work, it says more about you then it does about me, it means there must be something interesting about me to keep talking about.

Last but not least:

-art fills up my lungs and runs through my vains, it's what keeps me alive, it's the drug that keeps me high, it's the hand that feeds, the sheeld that protects me from the world and the destraction that saves me from an ordinairy life.-