Well things have been interesting since the last time I wrote. (Has it really been a week already?) There’s been some hard stuff, but I’m not ready to talk about that yet. Maybe soon. Jesse’s gone home to visit family, and I’m spending the next 2 weeks alone, for the first time ever. It’s taking [...]
Tags: Art, balance, Business, Creativity, marketing
I’ve discovered that getting up at 4:30am is actually quite lovely. Jesse’s started a new job at work, working 6:30am morning shifts. Since he has to walk (buses don’t run that early!) he gets up at around 4:30 to be ready in time. I hate waking up alone, so I decided to get up with [...]
Tags: Art, Creativity, learning, life drawing, nudes, progress
Sometimes I wonder if I am, in fact, one of the densest people alive. Really and truly. But maybe this is just the lesson I need to learn right now. Again and again, if I don’t do anything creative for longer than 3 days, I’m seriously cranky. The sad thing is, I then wonder why [...]
Tags: Art, Creativity, dreams, Happiness
This week has been fantastic as far as studio time goes. I am back on a creative roll! I just kept finding that flow. I contribute a lot of that to the Dance of Shiva. It just gets my brain all wired up for creativity. But the most important thing I did to go from [...]
Tags: Art, Creativity, dance of shiva, painting, productivity, shiva nata
Well, my stomach finally seems to be healing. Between the trifecta of omeprazole, the probiotics and the digestive enzymes, as well as a carefully monitored diet, it should have all the help it needs to start setting itself to rights again. My body, on the other hand, has been left in a much worse state. [...]
Tags: CFS, Coping, Creativity, exhaustion, me, pacing
So I thought that I was officially over the whole gallery fiasco. But then yesterday I woke up feeling thoroughly discouraged and crappy all over again. I’d been trying to get back on the creativity horse and doing little drawings. I had all these plans about drawing from life every day and painting from life [...]
Tags: Creativity, healing, inspiration, rejection
I’m dancing again. Very few people know that when I was younger, I used to dance all the time – I was a classically trained ballet dancer and I loved it. But then I got sick, and I had to let that passion go. I thought that door had closed forever. If someone had told [...]
Tags: Art, ballroom dancing, Creativity, inspiration, Passion
I started painting this morning and 40 minutes in, realized I’d made a real mess of things. Sometimes it happens. You get bogged down in the details, and you lose sight of your greater vision. Whenever this happens, I sit down and brainstorm what I can do to save the painting. In some cases “save [...]
Tags: Art, Creativity, inspiration, painting
It seems that a focused creative output has some side effects. Since the first week of April, I’ve finished 4 paintings and I’m about half way through 2 more. I’m feeling really good about my productivity right now. I seem to have found the sweet spot – a routine that works well for my creativity [...]
Tags: Art, Creativity, painting
In my current extremely burnt out state, I’ve been contemplating ways to prevent ending up here again, which brought me to ask myself the question – what nourishes my soul? What makes me feel alive? Happy? Exuberant? What gets me really excited about life? And how can I add more of that to my life? [...]
Tags: burn out, Creativity, healing, play
