Welcome! I am so excited to be officially saying my site is live!! Oh she’s a little baby at the moment but soon she will be over-flowing with creativity, fun and inspiration.
I have learned a lot the past 2 months as I have delved into the creative project that is this site. I learned that:
*Too much inspiration can lead to comparison.
*That there is no theme, algorithm or business strategy that will replace putting pen to paper Each. And. Every. Day.
*That I often get lost in the end vision and forget that it takes the daily steps to reach it.
*And, again, nothing replaces sitting down and making art Every. Single. Day.
*That the daily journey, the play and exploration of art is what I love the most.
I read a quote attributed to Dave Grohl (if you don’t like cursing you may want to skip this paragraph) that said “Musicians should go to a garage sale and buy an old fucking drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they’ll suck too. And then they’ll fucking start playing and they’ll have the best time they ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they’ll become Nirvana. Just a bunch of guys that had some shitty old instruments and they got together and they started playing some noisy ass shit and they became the biggest band in the world. That can happen again!”
So often we look towards the end result. We seek the end game the goal of getting to a certain place where we believe, “yes! That is when I will have arrived.” The truth is there is no end game. No final destination except for the actual final destination. I am reminded over and over to not discount the journey.
The real goal for me is to remind myself daily how much I love to create. To feel the love and passion flow through me as I touch paint to canvas or pen to paper. To some days leave my art table ecstatic with what I have created and wanting to share it with the world. And other days to leave wondering when I forgot how to draw a stick figure.
It’s all good, it’s all perfect and it’s all part of the journey. Everything that happens between birth and the final destination is what matters most. The experiences, the passion we feel when we create (even if that passion is passionate frustration wondering why the stupid paints won’t do what you want them to when they did it just fine yesterday!) are what matters most.
So I will try and remind myself when I am distracted with end product type things (like learning how to turn the art I haven’t yet made into stickers) that perhaps it’s more important to sit down and make something. To enjoy the process again, to not worry so much of what purpose the art will have at the end of it’s journey and to instead, thank it for allowing me to tag along.
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