I have been painting, and painting, and painting. Three weeks ago, I gathered my unfinished paintings and put them in a stack-the oldest attempts at the bottom. Then I made a plan to finish, reconstruct, or throw away each painting. One by one, I began to attach the stack. Happily, I have not had to throw any paintings away. I have completed four paintings that were unfinished because I began the paintings and left them unfinished before starting another one. Bad, bad! I used to never do that and I resolve NOT to do it again. Once a painting is put aside into a stack, the passion from which it was born is lost and may not be rekindled. Some of the paintings in the stack are fraught with design problems and if I can resolve these problems, I will have learned valuable lessons.
I have been painting EVERY day. That is the key to the success I am having. I am on a roll. I have put aside unnecessary tasks and have gotten into my right brain. This process has not been a struggle as of today; it has been a productive learning exercise. I have taken care of necessary responsibilities, but I have spent time before my easel each day focused only on painting.
I write this particular blog because I cannot stop painting long enough to write a more informative blog and I want my readers to know that I am alive and well and painting. Soon I will have paintings made anew from my stack of unfinished work to add to my gallery of paintings and a blog about the symbols that I use in my work will be posted soon.
So, the two main ideas of this story that you may find beneficial are 1) finish what you start and 2) don’t give up, keep working until you resolve your problems.
