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[chirtescu]

Forgive my absence yesterday as it was my first day back to school for the winter semester after a nice month-long break. So weird to be back!

I take my cues today from the artist whose blog inspired me to start keeping a daily paint-blog. You can see Carol Marine's blog here (she's really good!)
Through this activity I'm finally finding myself

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[anonymous]

you are getting better and better, so please do not stop. I will even help you with the supplies.

[chirtescu]

Thank you Sarah for taking the time to comment, it really lightened my spirits this evening to hear from you. I understand jealousy all too well, having felt it a lot in my life too. I don't know, but when I turned 30 (God, that's so weird to be saying) a few weeks ago I really started to feel a new-found urgency to get off my duff and do something, which also entailed my lowering my standards and trying to go easier on myself-- which is definitely not an easy thing to do. But you know, I started getting into it and I'm seeing that my work ain't half bad-- outside of school that is. I probably am learning a lot in there, it's just hard to really see it when you have some teacher breathing down your neck and you have all this performance anxiety. I think the best thing is just to shut your eyes and go forth regardless of the results-- heck, aim to be bad, make mistakes on purpose and just the enjoy the process. It gets easier once you can shake off the hang-ups, believe me. I hope you do manage to get back into the creative