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Fear

We're all afraid.  Some of us more than others.   The fear either holds us back, or it doesn't.  The thing to know is that we can push it aside,  or push through it.  We won't know how and we never will.  But we have to do it at some point.  Otherwise we are stuck where we are. Things will happen to us,  But we won't know what to do with them.   Here and now, I am trying to let my fear go.  To face fear and do the things I need to, to get where I want to be.   It won't be easy. Will you join me?

Facing the Drawing Board...

...and applying myself to my goals.  It seemed to have just hit me that yeah, in the future, this is what I'm striving for.  But if I never take the right steps to get there, I will have lost all that time and practice to actually be the artist I want to be. So how do I do that? One way: draw and paint when I don't feel like it.  Draw through the frustrations and challenges that face me.   Also known as FACING THE DRAWING BOARD.  Literally. 

My New Crutch

FINALLY!  Thanks to Muddy Colors ( http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/ ) I have nude models to draw!  Now don't get me wrong, I love drawing any person/body, but everything is so different with nudes.  I can't even begin to describe how amazing it is to see and feel every curve or corner of someone's body with a drawing or painting utensil.  Not quite the same as real life, but I will take it.  But if anyone decides to volunteer (you don't even have to be fully nude), I will gladly take you up on it!  Now I know most reading this probably don't care as much, but for any other artist out there who is in desperate need of models, look no further! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVEPOWEOgmo

New Year, New Inspiration

Creativity, Inc.  By Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace      I'm barely into the book, but knew from the second I saw it, that this would be and will be amazing.  Ever wonder why Pixar has been and stayed so successful?  Want to increase your creativity?  This book is for you.  This year will be full of many varieties of artistic projects.  From wedding gifts, to wedding planning, to the usual projects of mine, to whatever may come my way.