It’s no good priding yourself on walking your talk if you’re not actually doing that.
I confess I’m still learning about how to integrate a consistent art practice into my life while doing all the other things. And in all honesty, I actually think it’s unlikely that I ever will be completely consistent. I’d love to be the kind of artist who spends every spare waking moment drawing and painting, but I’m too curious about all sorts of other ways of being creative to do that.
I don’t think I have quite the optimal balance yet ~ I haven’t painted just for me in weeks, and this is the first piece of art I’ve made in quite a while ~ but I’m ok with that.
The photograph is by the awe inspiring Gregory Colbert, who I featured a few months back.
I lost myself in it and felt good afterwards, and that, my friends, is what I call a good way to spend your time.
Now to just do it more often… {which we all know I’m probably not going to, at least not for a little while.}
Oh Tara, you picked the wonderful winged motive by Colbert…and I love your painting actually even a bit more than the photograph, because this face of the boy just has a “I want to be in a painting” written all over him.
Best wishes,
Nicole xxx
This is charcoal? Really awesome! I love your work with the photograph.
Thank you Chris! I find working from a reference an interesting exercise in the tension between defaulting to trying to copy exactly, and simply just using it as a reference!
Stunning piece Tara!! I can’t be consistent in anything in my life so I don’t expect it in my art either. Would be nice I suppose….but maybe that’s just too boring? 🙂 xx
Ha, yes, for me it’s a constant balancing act between consistency in some things and a desire to REALLY NOT have to stick with something in others. It’s a work in progress always!