January 2, 2005
Happy New Years!
I hope all of my readers had a good New Years Eve. I am not one for making New Years' Resolutions, but here is one:
To paint every day.
I have recently gotten back into a regular painting schedule, and it has been great. Now I have to keep it up, because it is always difficult for me to start a new painting when I finish one. I get this feeling that I have expended all of my ideas on the last one and that I will just end up falling into the formulaic or will find that the well is dry. It is a stupid feeling, but one that I constantly battle. So, I am going to take the advice that I have given to other painter friends and go for quantity over quality. It is too easy to fritter away time fussing over a painting, so I am going to just plow through. Wish me luck!
Posted by erik at January 2, 2005 1:18 AM | TrackBackGood Luck with your goal of painting everyday! Excellent plan. And to overcome the difficulty of starting a new painting after finishing one, start the new painting BEFORE finishing one. Having two or more paintings in various stages can be useful for a whole lot of reasons, but the best reason is you never find yourself stuck in that long dry valley between paintings.
Posted by: Anna L. Conti at January 2, 2005 4:47 PM