Art evolves not just over the passage of time, but right before your eyes - right under your brush, your pencil or whatever medium you happen to be using. Perhaps the art is already embedded into the canvas, and we are just bringing it out, or perhaps it really is the artist that creates it.

Lately and perhaps more often then I have managed to notice, my mind just keeps telling me to give up while I'm painting or sketching. Trying to convince me that what I'm doing wont come out right or will just look like crap. Call it schizophrenia or whatever you like but that's just my mind. I find that if I continue on and just ignore my mind that my art evolves slowly right in front of my eyes as I paint each new detail and layer. It keeps getting better and looking more like what it is I want to achieve. I think that I am also evolving as I continue to work myself and test my skills beyond that which was thought possible.

I'm starting to learn simple things that I should have known all along; things that are common sense yet elude me and hide in the shadows.

"The choice of medium nor Art itself has limit save for the limit that the artist places upon it and upon themselves."

I learned long ago a couple of simple rules about drawing:

Rule #1 - Draw lightly
Rule #2 - Draw lightly

If I had to apply a couple of simple rules to watercolor they would be thus:

Rule #1 - Do not limit yourself or believe that there are limits of any kind.
Rule #2 - Don't give up or take anything too seriously.

And of course have fun! That should be rule #1 but I think it's an obvious one even if we have
to remind ourselves about it every once in awhile.

Anyway I know that hardly anyone if anyone at all reads my journal, but just in case I have a new watercolor painting coming soon. It's called "Broken Wishes" - By the way if anyone is reading this leave a comment or something will ya? It gets lonely around here!


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