Tell me it’s ok is finished! 14.5 x 11 Watercolor on 300lb Watercolor Paper.
I’ve had this finished for a couple days now. I’ve been studying it, off and on, just to make sure it is done. Yup, it is.
I’m hoping to get this one to the Printer, along with the painting Angels walk among us and have Giclee Prints made of them.
Contact me to find out more info or to reserve your LE Prints. debflood@debfloodart.com
It’s amazing how time keeps on marching. Here we are in November. And I am Thankful.
The Summer was amazing, with the Gallery Openings, Invites, Awards, Trips out West, new friends I have gained, and others that have fallen away. Looking back, I can’t really say the friends who have fallen away, were really friends to begin with. I can now see they were more “along for the ride, acquaintances”, until it didn’t suit them anymore. Many sayings of success come to mind, that I never really understood before, such as:
Lonely at the top (though I’m really not lonely, or at the top, I understand that statement better)
Climb that ladder: (Seems to be about who is waiting to step on your fingers, as you reach for that next rung).
Quality is better than Quantity: (Social Circles aren’t all that ends all. There is so much more quality in a few very close friends, and I am proud to say I have a few of those). This can also pertain to the amount of work that is created and pounded out each day. I have slowed down in the production of my work, but only a tiny bit, and I am paying more attention to getting a work of art right and making it something beautiful, that tells my story.
It seems that people in general ( I find this to be true with a lot of other artists) who have followed my career, whether in my community, or online,have a certain mind set about me. I realized this a few days ago. I was questioned and called upon, and given an Art History Lesson, publicly online, because I asked another artist about their materials and how that artist used those materials. The artist that lite into me, wasn’t the artist I was speaking with, whom created the gorgeous piece of art. I didn’t understand why I was being publicly brow beaten, because this person thought I should already “know” about the mediums used, and how they were applied. It seemed I was expected to “Know it all” already. Well, I don’t know it all. And I don’t ever plan on learning it all, and I will never stop learning. How do we grow as artists and human beings, if we stop learning and asking questions? To presume you know someone to be a certain way with certain knowledge just isn’t fair. But I guess some people want to place others on a pedestal, only to feel let down later on, because the pedestal person didn’t live up to the expectations.
I understand better now, why many artists that are very well known and at the top of their game, do not “do” online social sites. We artists are very sensitive souls, and any little negative, jealous, envious, deviant human being might throw us off our creative psych.
Since I’ve had several of these encounters within the last month or two, it’s time for me to pull back a bit, from the online social networks. I’ll still be posting my works for all of you, who enjoy, collect and share my work, here on the Blogs, and my Facebook Page, and the Google+ page, I am going to be more cautious about the ‘Artists’ that come into my online life. There is no room for jealous, green eyed people, who need to go to their studios and create works of art that can express who they are, and the journey they are on, to be in my life.
Everyone has the power within themselves, to be all that they can be. If only they would stop looking at what others have or don’t have, know or don’t know, and concentrate on making your own life worth living. It’s time to stop studying and picking other’s apart, and time to start creating. Life is just too short for this kind of messiness. Why waste your 100 years on that? And what if you don’t have 100 years? What if your days ended tomorrow? Would you feel good about what you have done with your life? And how you have treated others? Will you be proud of what you are leaving behind?
I for one, will be immersing myself, more than ever, into my creative journey, called Art.
~And what a journey it has been so far. Yes, I am very Thankful.
~Debbie
http://www.debfloodart.com
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