Rasta Is Adamant On Painting Oliver Mtukudzi Despite The Social Media’s Outcry

Speaking to TshisaLIVE well known painting artist Rasta explained that he will definitely do a special painting for the fallen legend Oliver Mtukudzi despite what the social media had to say. For the past years people have been expressing their disappointments at how Rasta paints artists in a peculiar and unmatching way of their looks.

“I have been drawing for a long time, since my high school days and it’s my passion something that I live for. What people don’t understand is that painting is a process and it’s not a fast process. There’s a lot of steps that must be taken from the first sketch to the final product. The problem now is that the minute I sit down, someone takes a picture of my incomplete work and says to Twitter, ‘Look at Rasta’s painting!’ but at that stage the picture is not done, so it doesn’t look great because it isn’t done. But Twitter doesn’t care, they go ahead and judge anyway,” Rasta said.

He confirmed that he was definitely going to paint Oliver and would travel to his memorial in Zimbabwe.

“I will definitely do something for Oliver. Maybe at the memorial service I will be able to complete the drawing and hand over but I definitely have to do this one.”

Rasta said it would be a great injustice for him to not paint Oliver because of the impact his music had on him.

“I’ve been listening to Oliver’s music since my primary days and when times were hard his music kept us going. I always loved that he remained a true African and a true Zimbabwean no matter how famous he got. He sang his Shona songs proudly and made his people proud. That Senzeni song is my all time favourite.”

Source – TshisaLIVE