Artist Interview With Blue Bliss
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Blue Bliss From Brooklyn, New York.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Blue Bliss: Since I was 4 years old… I vividly remember that was when I first realized I was an artist, even though I hadn’t yet made any art.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Blue Bliss: I started making comic drawings when I was 4, the first one I did was a response to the question “is it true blonds have more fun?” (being a brunette myself, I must have wondered if I was missing out on something important that only blonds could experience, how unfair that would be!) I did a comic strip where the first panel showed a robot thinking about the question; then in the next panel it puts on a blond wig. In the last panel it is rushing forward, laughing and saying Whee! because it turns out to be true that blonds really do have more fun…
After that I filled many notebooks with comic strips and copies of pictures I saw in books and magazines. Pretty typical for an artist starting out in life I suppose. I also had a mentor, which was a stern old man in my head who would scold me if I weren’t making enough art. Don’t know where he came from, perhaps he was the spirit of a dead artist who had adopted me as his apprentice…?
