I know it's been a long time since I have posted. Life has been interesting for the last ten months to say the least. I finally finished one of the paintings I had started a year ago after IMC which I will post later. That one was an emotional experience as it been started in a painful time of my life and touching it again brought it back. Powering through it I regained my serenity of emotion and broke through to the place I had been when I had painted the Tarzan painting two years ago... And I cried with joy to remember it and watched this painting just flow off my brush...
On Tuesday when I worked on a private piece... It was a small watercolor that I was doing for someone special - and the love I felt while doing it made the piece so effortless... I realized that while I have been studying so hard to learn how to paint I forgot the most important skill of all - throwing my heart into the work... And that was what I had been doing on the Tarzan piece - I was in love with it and in love with the people I was with and that was the magic that made it happen.
So many people think you have to suffer for your art - and I have been doing that for a long time. Fighting to learn fighting to find the time and mental space to do it ...
But the secret that all the masters have known is you must be passionately, openly in love with what you are doing and WHY you are doing it ... And I have finally discovered what that means. Now I know what throwing your heart in really feels like...
