Epic Failures

  Good morning!............So where is this year going? It's racing by at warp speed and taking me with it. It's August and everyone is already talking about Halloween. Before ya know it, Christmas will be here and I haven't put all my holiday decorations away from last Christmas yet.....I guess I won't bother to at this point.

  This has been a weird couple weeks here in my studio. So much is happening, some good, some not so good and I am bouncing off the walls trying to wrap my head around it all.

  I'm not going to go into detail about the not-so-good stuff. It's just family stuff. Isn't that what family is for anyway?, to drive ya nuts? Suffice it to say that it is "Survive-able" and everything will work out for the better in the long run. This is life folks and it too shall pass. It's precisely the bad stuff that tests our endurance and makes us stronger right.

  It's the good stuff that matters!......no one wants to dwell on the bad and thankfully,  there is a lot of good happening too.

  I have my grand-dog barking at me from the studio bed as I am trying to type this post because I'm not paying attention to him. This is one very spoiled dog..........He wants me to come get him because he is too lazy to walk five feet to get to me. I'm babysitting him today and  will probably spend most of it holding him. It's a good thing he's cute........I hope he likes the smell of paint.

  So anyway, I have had a couple of failures, art wise, this week. Yes.....I have failures, on a regular basis.

  Here is what I have to say about art failures.......

  At first, everything is going great. I arrive in the studio, I take time to relax and enjoy my coffee, get out all my supplies, prep the surface of what I am working on, pick up the pencil or brush or charcoal, get ready to make that first artistic, well thought out mark and I have all these pre-conceived ideas of award winning art that I am about to create, paintings and drawings that will gain world wide attention, I might even manage to get my own IMDB site not to mention a star on Hollywood blvd. I will be the "Who's-Who" of the art world ...............And then, this happens.....................

                                              I can't draw anything to save my life!..........

   My eraser ends up getting a workout, over and over..........Five attempts later, I finally have something that might pass for a drawing, despite the hole in it from the erasing, It just might pass.

   What is my issue!!.............This not only happened once, but twice in one week. I had the same problem with the next drawing too.

  You know what..............crap happens. just like family problems arise, so do creative ones. The worst thing you can do is give up.

  What do I do when crap happens? I walk away, take a break and then I come back to it. It's not the end of the world. The sky isn't falling, it's just a drawing. Yes, I know, it is annoying.

  Eventually.............I get to the point where everything falls into place beautifully, like in this great, amazingly accurate,  drawing rendition of the human form I created, the worlds best stick figure................

   See,  perseverance pays off. Everyone is going to have an off day, or in my case, an off week. You just gotta hold onto the safety bar and ride it out.

  Even with all this past weeks set backs, I did manage to get three ACEO's finished, which I can't post photos of at this time, but soon,  and my second drawing in the "Child's Play" series is moving along nicely........

  Maybe one day, I will be the "Who's Who of the art world. Right now, I won't hold my breathe.I will just hang out, here, in my humble little studio and continue to buy erasers in bulk.