Suck It Up And Just do It!
So it is Sunday and I’m trying to get myself in my “happy place.” You know the location where my desire to start a new painting and the actuality of doing something about it finally meet.
I spent the morning playing Lego Star Wars on the Playstation and had a blast. I haven’t cranked up the PS for … well since things got all topsy turvey for me.
Then I came into the gallery and goofed off … But then, then I settled in to looking through like a gazillion giraffe photos. Okay more like 3000-5000 but it still took a couple of hours.
What I got in my head (and whether I can get it out of my head and onto suede board is yet to be determined) is a panoramic of several (5-13) giraffes at varying distances with a plain background.
Kinda like a cross between my Skyscrapers giraffe painting and the Birds of A Feather flamingo piece. Maybe they went out on a date and got a little tipsy and this thing I’m planning is their love child. Okay maybe not. But it’s a close description.
As soon as I have anything on paper I’ll take a pic and post it.
I got a request for a horse portrait and the woman agreed to my many and lengthy list of demands soooo … I really need to get back into painting and I certainly don’t want to start with a commission job.
So I’m sucking it up and just doing it.
Here goes . . . . nothing . . . . and everything
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I think it’s going to turn out great. I loved how the flamingo painting worked out. You can do this. It’s something deep and cool within you that drives you to paint, so go for it. I know that feeling about commissions too, even when you want to do them and love the subject there’s also an inner need to paint something that you chose the subject and planned from scratch.
Lovely idea — have fun!!
Good luck with the commission, I know she will love it — really!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooooo happy to hear you are thinking on a new giraffe picture. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can do it, I know you can. I need a really cool gift for Sabrina this next Christmas so you can plan on printing and framing one for me!!! There, sold before you even begin, now that should be incentive! And I want a bunny mug! Zazzle here I come!
Every day, I look at my own “commissioned piece,” and I thank you over and over. So will she.