Friends – What I Painted While Not Online Yesterday

Yesterday I took the day off from all of my normal online activity. As an artist I spend a lot of time on social media sites looking at art, talking about art, and in general getting my art fix. Once in a while it is good for me to just walk away from all of that art so that I can just concentrate on my own art.

Friday evening I was feeling overloaded. Feeling like I was an imposter and that my art just wasn’t enough. It was good enough, it wasn’t detailed enough, it wasn’t big enough. Maybe even, it wasn’t authentic enough. I felt defeated and fed up.

So I decided to take some time off and just be with my art, push myself to create something I would normally not create, and in general just get back to what I enjoy about the process. I started this painting Friday and off and on Saturday I added to it, altered it, painted over huge parts of it. I played. I feel as if I could tackle anything today. I break was just what I needed. My art is good enough, big enough, detailed enough, and authentic enough.