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| Part of my 365 Challenge |
I have now painted 338 paintings. How many are good? Are any brilliant? Maybe only 2 or 3. I was hurt to see a comment on my FB art page today - 'Some real kindergarten stuff...'. I wrote a long reply justifying myself. Then I went back and deleted it. Instead I replied - "Yep, so true. Of course.'
Of course there will be more bad paintings than good paintings. Of course. But buried in amongst them will be some gems, worth celebrating. And I could talk about the journey and the showing up, the discipline. Or even about sickness, lack of resources, and squeezing painting around commitments. But instead, today, I will celebrate what I have painted well.
This painting is on its way to live in Ontario in the famous Tiny House there!
Peace be with you my friends,
Asta x
*Sean Gentry's article at petapixel.
Hi Asta,
ReplyDeleteI just had to comment on this. I started 2013 hoping to do a drawing a day - and I can tell you for a certain fact that if someone thinks your paintings are "some real kindergarten stuff" then my stuff wouldn't even be - let's put it this way. I've always wanted to draw/paint but have very rarely let myself try. I find it so hard to even put pen/pencil to paper with all the negative stuff in my head. When I do draw I'm actually quite proud of it - it's nowhere near as good as your paintings - I can't draw/paint people or animals - but I feel so proud and excited to actually get something out and onto paper. So I did maybe a week or two of drawing at the start of 2013 and then gave up. I'm hoping to get a bit more done this year.
I'm glad you could just 'let go' the horrible comments someone made about your painting. I don't know what they expect when you're doing one painting a day! Surely paintings like the ones you've been doing are meant to take more than one day! Anyway, I really appreciate your paintings and thanks for sharing them with us, Robyn xx
Robyn would you consider giving me your email address (I moderate all comments here so I won't make that public) or contacting me at my fb art page - astalanders365paintingschallenge. I would really love to mentor you through 365 drawings in 2014. I know you can do this!! How? Because I did it!!! I did what was in my heart. Asta xxx
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