start painting again

creating is joyful

Well. I bought two paint-by-number sets because I thought they’d be fun. It’s definitely not my kind of painting! I got bored really quickly, especially with the fact that nearly every section required me to mix colors together. I’d much rather be painting my own canvas with my own colors…but at least it was a step in getting back to that mindset!

When I was in high school, I used to be a prolific and well-respected artist. I was known for my four by six foot canvases and used to paint in eight hour+ trances where I would barely recognize what I had done when I was finished. I got so “in the zone” that I would look up and four hours would have gone by.

For the last year or so I’ve only painted about three or four pieces. Mostly because I got caught up in college and couldn’t even afford real food, much less fifty dollar canvases.

I want to take it up again though. I’m doing sketches for my next four by six foot masterpiece. It will be a historical Japanese portrait called “Lord Asano and Akita”... It’ll go in my new Asian-inspired apartment. :)

My best friend who is still in college has about half of my portfolio hanging in his house. It looks like an art gallery of my work…

I recently picked up the brush again after longing for it for YEARS. It was funny how it happened. I almost didn’t do it, just for the sake of money, but my boyfriend encouraged me to indulge myself, at least this once. The funny thing was, I was looking into getting something to keep myself occupied at his house while he built models one week. When we went to Ocean State Job Lots and we wandered the aisles, I saw the paints and canvases and bit my lip considering it. He encouraged it, and I couldn’t wait. When we got back to his apartment, I began to paint. He was so enthused over it, and so enamored with my skill (which he’d not seen)that it really encouraged me to want to paint more. I sadly left my materials at his apartment, as it was the only place I was really able to sit down and paint. I can’t wait to pick up the brush again, though I have no idea what I am going to paint when I get the chance again.

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I need to start painting again. I loved art in highschool, and even had a portfolio, and admissions packet for Savannah School of Art. Somewhere down the road, I just lost interest. I need to pick it back up!!

Okay so I haven’t painted in over three years and I can’t say what happened for sure. I just stopped, wasn’t inspired, became fearful, not really sure. However, I’m now at a point where all those reasons/excuses aren’t good enough anymore. I’m ready to create and express again… the dilemma now is… What will I paint???

ive been painting again recently so very rewarding and relaxing i missed it so much

I used to love painting so much when I was younger, it allowed me to express myself, and it gave me peace. I want to begin painting again.