It has been 2 months since I began this blog, and I must remind myself of why I started...to encourage the creative process and progress in my amount and quality of painting.
I am pleased with part of my progress...I see where I am being creative. I am starting to find out WHEN I am at my most productive, so that I can start to structure my days better. However, I can also see that I am leaning heavily on past creations, and need to step up my productivity a LOT! I don't know how any of you out there do it! Are you focused, and schedule your day? Do you tune out the distractions? This is where I really fall down as an artist. The truly obsessed artists that I know are constantly trying new things, are excited about what is coming next, and can't NOT create. I still find myself at that tentative stage...afraid of greeting that blank canvas, and not really sure what I want to paint, or communicate.
I was told by a long-time artist and teacher that if I don't communicate with the viewer, I am wasting my time, and my painting is a failure no matter how pretty it is. That stopped me dead in my tracks for weeks!
So I will focus on the positive points...I have learned so much the past 2 months of blogging, and feel that I am on the brink of a real breakthrough in my art. I am starting to understand what I want to accomplish visually, what I want to say with my art, and where I want to go with it. That is a 30 year bonanza in my mind! Knowing that I can blog it out, put it down in words as well as pictures is helping everything to come together.
I look for great things ahead...or a lot of little things. Progress is progress!
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
---Louisa May Alcott
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