Comments on: Doing it for me http://smlacyart.com/doing-it-for-me/ Sarah Marie Lacy is an artist who paints moody landscapes and delicate figures in oils and acrylics. Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dugfresh http://smlacyart.com/doing-it-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 dugfresh Mon, 10 May 2010 23:26:29 +0000 http://smlacyart.com/?p=1746#comment-1011 i just finished commenting on your "rejection" post. i wanted to point out something, call it a simple truth, but i just couldn't find the right phrasing. and then i land on this page. you said it perfectly in the first sentence of the second paragraph: "When I do something for me and my own reasons, I succeed." sometimes, as artists, we can feel the need to overthink the subject, to presuppose what potential viewers want it to look like, and we ignore the _connection_ to what we're trying to capture. i see you walking out on a bluff overlooking the sea, grass blowing in the breeze, waves churning and crashing on the shore below. You set up your canvas, stand, and paints, and you wait. it's just you and the landscape. no distractions, no busy thoughts. just you. and the earth and the sky. waiting. in that quiet, it will come to you. you won't see the scene as much as you will "feel" it. then you start painting. no thinking, no planning. no worries, no thoughts — just your heart operating the paint brush through the use of your hand. will you come up with something that sells big in a gallery somewhere? maybe. will you come up with something that you will forever have a connection to, something that stirs a wave of emotion in you ever time you remember, something that you know you can call your own? definitely. and that, to me, is success. cheers, — doug i just finished commenting on your “rejection” post. i wanted to point out something, call it a simple truth, but i just couldn’t find the right phrasing.
and then i land on this page.
you said it perfectly in the first sentence of the second paragraph:
“When I do something for me and my own reasons, I succeed.”
sometimes, as artists, we can feel the need to overthink the subject, to presuppose what potential viewers want it to look like, and we ignore the _connection_ to what we’re trying to capture.
i see you walking out on a bluff overlooking the sea, grass blowing in the breeze, waves churning and crashing on the shore below. You set up your canvas, stand, and paints, and you wait. it’s just you and the landscape. no distractions, no busy thoughts. just you. and the earth and the sky. waiting.
in that quiet, it will come to you. you won’t see the scene as much as you will “feel” it.
then you start painting. no thinking, no planning. no worries, no thoughts — just your heart operating the paint brush through the use of your hand.

will you come up with something that sells big in a gallery somewhere? maybe.
will you come up with something that you will forever have a connection to, something that stirs a wave of emotion in you ever time you remember, something that you know you can call your own? definitely.
and that, to me, is success.

cheers,
— doug

]]> By: kal http://smlacyart.com/doing-it-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-985 kal Tue, 04 May 2010 10:29:28 +0000 http://smlacyart.com/?p=1746#comment-985 Good morning Sarah, It has been so long gal that I am feeling a bit embarassed contacting ya :-) Still, I am in the middle of setting up some - o so fantastic - goals and I came to your page looking for your help and here you are talking about "goals"! Is that a synchronicity or what? I wont be forgetting these goals as - quite literally 20 minutes ago the page went live to the world... www.Kals3Goals.com ... I am going to be asking all of my mates for help with this so - be expecting an email in the next few days - or go over now and add your gracious support. On an entirely different note - I climbed to the top of Dinas Bran yesterday - and me with vertigo an all! Have you ever been that way? It would make lovely paintings... http://www.castlewales.com/dinas.html It is nice to connect with you again Love, Kal Good morning Sarah,

It has been so long gal that I am feeling a bit embarassed contacting ya :-)

Still, I am in the middle of setting up some – o so fantastic – goals and I came to your page looking for your help and here you are talking about “goals”! Is that a synchronicity or what?

I wont be forgetting these goals as – quite literally 20 minutes ago the page went live to the world… http://www.Kals3Goals.com …

I am going to be asking all of my mates for help with this so – be expecting an email in the next few days – or go over now and add your gracious support.

On an entirely different note – I climbed to the top of Dinas Bran yesterday – and me with vertigo an all! Have you ever been that way? It would make lovely paintings… http://www.castlewales.com/dinas.html

It is nice to connect with you again

Love,

Kal

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