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PureX

PureX

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Seeker of White Light said:
It has been a struggle all summer, unfortunately.

I might have to give up on my dream.
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That's not necessary at all. I suspect you just need to change your perspective a little bit. Trust me, I know a lot of artists.

Here is someone you might think about ... she has been painting for decades, teaching art classes in her kitchen, and selling work quietly all along. Not for huge sums of money, or trying to be an "art star" or anything like that. She's just a quiet, unassuming housewife with a husband and three kids. Her paintings are inspired by her daily spiritual readings. She has developed a simple style of her own that works for her, and over time, she has developed a small following. I remember when she first started, and her paintings were not that good. But she understood that becoming an artist is a process. Not just an accumulation of skills, but of a kind of inner vision, and trust. And she worked at it a few hours here and there, each day if she could. Now her paintings are quite good and come to her without a great deal of struggle. Being an artist has become a part of her. And she can share that part of herself with others in a number of ways.

One of the things I really respect about her as an artist is that she really has very little ego involved in it. It's a natural, spiritual, expression of her being.

Here's a link to her site ...

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Spirit of Light

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PureX said:
That's not necessary at all. I suspect you just need to change your perspective a little bit. Trust me, I know a lot of artists.

Here is someone you might think about ... she has been painting for decades, teaching art classes in her kitchen, and selling work quietly all along. Not for huge sums of money, or trying to be an "art star" or anything like that. She's just a quiet, unassuming housewife with a husband and three kids. Her paintings are inspired by her daily spiritual readings. She has developed a simple style of her own that works for her, and over time, she has developed a small following. I remember when she first started, and her paintings were not that good. But she understood that becoming an artist is a process. Not just an accumulation of skills, but of a kind of inner vision, and trust. And she worked at it a few hours here and there, each day if she could. Now her paintings are quite good and come to her without a great deal of struggle. Being an artist has become a part of her. And she can share that part of herself with others in a number of ways.

One of the things I really respect about her as an artist is that she really has very little ego involved in it. It's a natural, spiritual, expression of her being.

Here's a link to her site ...

Holiday-28x42-2020-1.jpg
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I honestly do not wish to give up. But at the moment i can't even put propper food on the table due to everything get so expensive.

Also paint and pencil are very expensive now
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Seeker of White Light said:
I honestly do not wish to give up. But at the moment i can't even put propper food on the table due to everything get so expensive.

Also paint and pencil are very expensive now
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Art supplies have always been absurdly expensive. And artists have always been short on money. But keep in mind that you can make art out of anything. A box of crayons and #2 pencils cost very little. Same goes for a cheap tablet of paper in the kids "for school" section. For $10 you could provide yourself with lots of these kinds of supplies. And then have some fun with them, because they're cheap, and disposable. What happens if you rub the crayon markings into the paper with an eraser, or a cloth? What if you use the pencils to draw over the crayon? What if you fold the paper into a shape, and color/draw on that? The possibilities are endless, and all the while you are learning what kinds of marks, and colors, and processes "speak to you". Which of these feel like they are expressing something that you want to see expressed. And it doesn't have to be "work". It can be your "fun time" each day, playing and experimenting with this stuff to see what it can become.

I guarantee that if you allow this sort of thing to become a regular part of your life, you WILL get better and better at it. It's inevitable. And it doesn't really cost that much time or money if you let it happen naturally.

Just my 2 cents on it. I know lots of artists, and most of them have very little money. Mostly because they don't much care about money. It's not what drives their passions.
 
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