You know you are an artist when. . .
1. You can't stop thinking about the art you are working on.
2. You can't stop thinking about the art you want to create.
3. Petty things like life changes, job changes, poor health, or just day-to-day life do not stop you in your quest for creating art.
If you are an artist. . .
You are never too busy. You are never too over committed. You are never too stressed to
CREATE ART! Right?
Isn't it true Vincent painted the day after cutting off his ear?
Didn't Monet paint even after blindness set in?
No matter how many women Picasso had to juggle, didn't he keep painting?
Grandma Moses started in painting at the age of 76 after the death of one of her grown children.
These are tough people. These are my role models.
I feel like a real lightweight.
So why is it that I had 2 months off, it is more than 1/2 gone, and I JUST NOW started up again? I seem to paint in fits and starts. Is that normal in the 21st century -- I mean those with full time jobs--I mean in this economy--I mean with cell phones and facebook and 200 TV channels??? Am I obsessed with my job? (I spent the first 2 weeks of my vacation editing A Christmas Carol for my middle school actors.) Do I spend too much time worrying about
e v e r y t h i n g (my health, my children, my dogs, my parents, my sister, our financial future, the plight of teachers, the plight of the arts in society and education, our government, human rights, etc.) Am I too scattered? Do I need focus?
Well, at least I did start up again. . .
There's a positive point of view.
It's a slight departure for me -- bolder colors, a new direction. Maybe I needed the hiatus. Maybe my subconcious mind was working on this piece for a long time. I just didn't know it.
So if you get in a creative slump, just keep plugging, and the magic will come back. It happened to me!
Whimsically yours,
Charlotte
PS Coming very soon,
Sunshiney Metro Domino. Here's a detail:
PPS If you haven't seen it, I recommend Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. The film features Hemingway, Cole Porter, Gertrude Stein, the F.Scott Fitzgeralds, T.S. Eliot, Picasso, Toulouse L.T., Dali, and the City of Paris in all its stunning glory.
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