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May 17th, 2017

5/17/2017

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Living the Dream

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After a year and a half, I have found a new creative home in San Francisco. Creativity in life can be a spill over from creative work with visual arts. Persistence when things look tough, pacing, practicing skills, and testing out ideas can be done on the relatively low impact platform of watercolor. These all help from getting stuck in a repetitive way of painting or of living.
I have seen students become active artists and then making changes for the better in their lives. This is because it takes the same attitude to make better paintings as is does to make a more livable life. I believe the transformation is unconscious. There is  no direct and obvious connection between making a break through with color understanding, and cleaning out clutter in a home, making room for new activities. Maybe it started with clearing space for an art table, but the process snowballs and soon the painter is changing where they hang out, whom they hang out with, and seeking out new adventures.
It works for me anyway. Letting go security for a whole new life helped me become a better painter, I think, too. At least I am painting more in quantity and out of that, eventually comes quality.
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