Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Sour Grapes?

Hello all,

I'm really sorry for how this all looks.  I did a few bad pieces and disappeared.  But I wanted to let you know that's not the whole story.  Sure, part of it is that those hands did leave a bad taste in my mouth, but another part of it is that I got lazy and started spending my lunch time skimming uninteresting articles about topics I could care less about...

I can't help it, I'm a procrastinator by nature and very often have to force myself to work on a drawing or a painting, in much the same way one might force themselves to go to the gym or go running.  And like in those situations after I've done it I always feel glad I did so, but it doesn't make it any less difficult to get started.  (I think a common mistake people make is that if they 'aren't in the mood' they don't work at their craft.  You will get excited by a project here or there, but you'll stall out quickly when you encounter a difficult problem so you really do need to get over that and just push through.)   

And of course the third part of the 'Hey, where did he go?' equation is that I don't ONLY work in watercolor.  While at the time I thought it was a good idea for this to solely be about watercolor I've found that it would be significantly more productive for me to convert this blog into a general art blog for myself. 

I'll have a new post up for Friday.