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I recently decided a few things.<\/p>\n
I decided to switch mediums.<\/p>\n
I decided to do larger work.<\/p>\n
I decided to try to actually sell my work. Eeep!<\/p>\n
I had an art show recently and realized my work is so small, it is not very noticeable in person. I like working small, I like the intimacy. And it is so much easier in so many ways, less expensive.<\/p>\n
I haven’t painted on canvas in decades. Maybe once or twice. The last time I did, I was in my twenties<\/em>. So I drove 2 hours in traffic to buy new acrylic paint and canvas, a new set of brushes. I bought a few 12″ ready-made canvases too.<\/p>\n Those ready made canvases filled me with fear. So perfectly made, so clean and empty. So it felt a lot better just to rip off a hunk of canvas and clip it to an old crappy piece of plywood. No real<\/em> art being made here!<\/p>\n The self talk we go through as creative people is ridiculous. Mine goes from grotesquely overconfident to pathetically self pitying in a matter of microseconds. But mostly I am saying helpful things like this:<\/p>\n It’s just an experiment.<\/p>\n You don’t have to show it to anyone.<\/p>\n You can paint over it later.<\/p>\n Go ahead and try it, it’s just a practice piece.<\/p>\n You can make 4 more of this same image and pick your favorite later.<\/p>\n No one will ever see this unless you want them too.<\/p>\n I take this approach for all my artwork because art making has to start out as a very personal interaction, just for me. If I think at all about what other people think, I won’t get into the flow of creating the way I most enjoy it. <\/p>\n So, it will be a while before I show ya’ll my paintings. I don’t know what<\/em> the heck I’m doing!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently decided a few things. I decided to switch mediums. I decided to do larger work. I decided to try to actually sell my work. Eeep! I had an art show recently and realized my work is so small, it is not very noticeable in person. I like working small, I like the intimacy. And it is so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}