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thinking about taking this one off the list. Found a class, see above entry, but resolutely haven’t been, which makes me wonder how much I actually want to do this. Maybe I should just stick to painting large acrylic red flowers alone in my room. I guess I just clicked on this goal because it sounds nice, and I enjoy being arty by myself. I didn’t stop to think that that doesn’t necessarily translate to a burning desire to paint what other people tell me to paint in the style they tell me to paint it.
The painting thing is how I relax, it’s a place in my mind that I find to escape from the rest of my incessant mindfulness. It’s the rhythm of a paintbrush on a page and the narrowing of thought to “where should the next line be?”. I’m not sure that the way that I paint things could really benefit from an art class, due to the simple fact that I don’t care what the things I depict look “like”. I only really care about their placement on the page, the unfathomable dissection of a line moving through otherwise empty space. It’s the thought process really, not the rendering of an object, which motivates me to paint. I’d probably benefit more from a good book about perceptual psychology than I would from an art class.
Having said all that, if I can find a sculpture or life drawing class in Asahikawa then I’ll go along for the challenge, since both are so removed from anything I do at home.
So I’ll give the goal another month’s grace at least.
