I started this blog and hadn't even written on it yet! Wow, that is a whole new level of lazy for me. I guess it is hard to blog about art when you are too busy to make it. Getting married and moving to a different house, I had new priorities - getting furniture, keeping the house clean, and keeping my husband and pets alive and fed. I just sounded like a fifties housewife, didn't I? Anyway, one priority I neglected for a long time was myself and what I needed to be happy. Creating art is happiness for me. I just love to draw, create vectors, and paint. It took me a long time to get my studio organized and find a place to paint, but I finally did it.
As I was trying to clean up my studio, which is really just a small bedroom, I came across a very heavy box of my old paintings. It was a lot of fun to go through them and remember the times when I could paint for hours and sometimes come up with something pretty cool. I pulled out a few paintings to fix and a few more that I thought would be cool to recreate as vector images (in Adobe Illustrator).
It didn't take long for the ideas to start flowing. Sketchbook pages were filled with ideas! I was going to make paintings for every room in my house! I was going to make paintings to sell! I started to have fun with it again. Even though most of what I have painted so far doesn't look like what I pictured it would, it still felt great to get out the old paints and to give it a try. My painting area still needs some work - a better way to protect the floor and a good old chair to sit on, but I am getting there, and I am determined to make it work! :)
