“No one made me do this. I love being an artist and wouldn’t do anything else. But it’s strenuous. We artists don’t just shake things out of our sleeves. It demands mental concentration, and at the end of a hard day of painting, you are drained. The positive thing about being an artist is that every once in a while you make a breakthrough, and you really see the possibility of new horizons in your work.” - Woody Gwyn
Today I need reminding of this. I started a piece that was a risk, and I don’t like it. Which means I don’t like my studio, or my career, or my ideas, or my life at the moment. It happens. Woody is right, BTW - a hard day of painting (whether good or bad) is tiring. The muse never lets go, though.
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