Cro has gone from being just a musician to being a visual artist. He spends the amount of free time that Corona has recently given him painting pictures. He now brings this to the people under the name Carlito.
Since the Corona period, Cro has been more concerned with painting. “I tried many things and made my first works of art public,” said the artist. “It’s a bit of a small step that I’m taking seriously right now and that I want to perfect.”
He always liked to paint, even at school. “I’m more of a visual guy,” he said. “Even if I explain something, I paint it.” He could do a lot more with a picture. “If someone reads me something for hours, I listen less than if they show me a picture,” Cro said.
Creativity and inspiration for art cannot be forced. The most effective is an interplay of “just do it and put a little ego back and don’t always have this claim to perfectionism,” said the artist. “At some point you have to say, okay, that’s apparently good enough, so out with it.”
However, it is not always easy to find the right balance between lying around in the sun for three hours and then working three hours again. “I’m a workaholic, if you’re not careful I don’t eat all day and work all the time,” said the 32-year-old. But sometimes it could also be that he doesn’t do anything for two weeks. That’s not good either and he quickly gets bored. “You really have to learn that and force yourself to do it, it’s like going to the gym or something,” Cro continues.
In any case, Cro does not see himself at the end of his painting career, there are a thousand ways of adding color to something. “I paint with acrylic, the next day with oil, then I have oil pencils, then airbrush, then you stick something with tape,” he enthuses. “Everywhere I go I buy pens, I’m a bit addicted to them too.” Cro publishes his artwork under the alias Carlito.
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