Wednesday, January 06, 2010

A thousand tiny brushstrokes


I've been working on this painting for quite a while now, or shall I say not working on this painting for quite a while now, and it has been giving me many guilt pangs. But I started it up again earlier this week, and this afternoon have been really enjoying myself. This is what I see when I work on it, because to reach across a big sheet of paper like this, I have to twist it upside down or sideways sometimes.

Sometimes it's easy to think that making art is all about the Grand Gesture, or the Next Big Idea. But I find when I start to get hung up on those things, I just get hung up altogether and stop painting. I have to remember that it's not about making one huge masterpiece for all time, but about making a thousand tiny brushstrokes, lovingly and happily repeated over and over.

2 comments:

  1. Ariel7:04 AM

    hi dear,
    I think,obviously, you're wonderful and so your art, I've only a question, maybe I'm distracted and you've already said it, but, how can you disappear the pencil lines from your drawings?

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  2. Hola Kristin, me encantan tus ilustraciones,ya te sigo, pasa después por mi blog!!!kiss you!!!!tousnimy

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