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Maybe this year I will correct that. Perhaps I will post more in 2015. Or maybe I will start a new blog instead - a fresh start for a new person - because I am changed. Or I feel changed. I am a darker self, less light than I used to be. Or maybe I won't blog at all.
I really don't know.
And that is what the coming of 2015 feels like to me. The direction of the year is uncertain, and that is unsettling, yes, but full of possibility too. And I like the possibilities.
Best wishes for a happy and fulfilling 2015 - may all that you experience make you flourish and grow in color and in depth - like a painting in a master's hands.
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Uncertainty means you have choices, means you are aware that you have choices, and means you have energy left to ponder your choices. Hope you continue in someway to share your talent. Above looks like a New Year's celebration to me.
ReplyDeleteWell with all these responses I am definitely encouraged to share! I will paint no matter what and hopefully more of it. Think I will continue this blog, and maybe put it in hyperdrive. (I can say this when I am off work, but come January 5th when I have no time, well we will see..) Above is a celebration - my hope is to bring some of it off-paper.
DeleteIt looks like a happy place, a place of light and joy. I welcome you back to the blogging and I hope you continue because I have missed you. I wish you peace in the new year.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sweet and a very appropriate wish that I truly appreciate.
DeleteYou have made it through 2014. Please continue to share your insights and art.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your encouragement - I think I will.
DeleteKeep doing what makes you happy! Hope this year brings you some serenity.
ReplyDeleteGreat advice which I intend to follow (and hope to bring into the greater part of my life), and thank you - serenity would be great.
DeleteDan, It was so good to see that you've posted one of your paintings again. I hope you continue to hook up with your on line artist's community for support during the coming year. I love this little painting!
ReplyDeleteAfter all of the support following this "whiny" post, I cannot see how I will not continue to look to you and to the rest of the online community - because it is clear to me that you are all great (and needed). Thank you. Glad you love the painting!
DeleteHappy New Year, Dan! Lovely work. Take it easy. A high expectation is harsh on ourselves. I want to make my work in my own way. I hope you'll "enjoy" drawing. I hope you and your family will have a wonderful time. Best wishes, Sadami
ReplyDeleteThank you Sadami for your wisdom and warm wishes. Most of my trouble has been non-art related but I am too hard on myself art-wise too for sure, from time to time. Mostly, though, the art is my joy and what keeps me sane and going.
DeleteLove your celebratory painting and I hope to see MORE of you this year!!
ReplyDeleteWell, Beth, then I'll try to be here MORE. Thanks so much!
DeleteHappy New Year Dan! Love the art and it looks like a carnival, full of joy! :)
ReplyDeleteAlex, Alex, Alex - so glad you are back!! I feel a special connection to you - all the fun we had from the start. I visited your blog a week ago, and bookmarked it to comment later (which I will do). Despite your long break your talent is unmarred.
DeleteThanks Dan :) I am not talented by any means...I just like to mess with my pencils. Glad to be back too. At the start of the year, it's going to get a little crazy too... I'll try my best to find more time to draw. Thanks again!
DeleteHappy New Year Dan. I love your painting. It looks lively and has a happy feel. I hope to see more of your work this year.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year to you! Glad you like it!! Now I am sure I will post more.
DeleteHappy New Year, Dan. I apologize if this is a duplicate comment. I like the choices in your painting. You are bringing the abstraction under control by going back to your own palette and innate style and penstroke choices. All the best to yuo and yours in the New Year.
ReplyDeleteWell, what is interesting..pssst, this is a secret. I pulled a scrap of paper out of my drawer with scribbling and writing on it. Then I thought - this is an abstract painting. Already some colors were on it, then I painted more to give it balance, careful to keep the whites and this joyful piece resulted. This is my watercolor palette. The acrylic palette is different - which is what I have been using for my abstracts of late, since for acrylics I am attracted to some effects that escape me in watercolor, impasto and brush marks. Happy New Year to you Melissa and to your family. You are a great encouragement, in word and deed.
DeleteI wish for you all the best in 2015 Dan. You deserve good things in life.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful painting and I'm glad you decided to share it.
Art is possibility and change is welcomed in art. It's one of the things I love about art... you can change direction any time you choose.
Love you kid. Hang in there. See you soon in blog land.
All the best for you in 2015 too Pamo! I am all over the place in art and definitely need some more direction, but this "whiny" post was about life. Non-art. The life that gets in the way of the spirit of art-making. I have changes in store in my art too though. I am making my own canvases now, and challenging myself to go bigger. And maybe, to get "out there" a bit more. If life permits.
DeleteI do enjoy your ink and watercolor here...It really does look happy. I agree, you can and should do absolutely whatever you feel like doing. It is important in art---and everything else, to do as you want! We can lose sight of that....Happy New Year! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd that is part if it, a tension that results when I find that a majority of time I am not doing what I want. That is the part that is at least partially in my control. Thanks for your insightful advise and always being there to encourage this less experienced artist. Happy New Year!
DeleteDan the Man is back in town. Good to see you!.
ReplyDeleteI love this one as you can spend ages in it, inventing a whole new world which will be different to the next viewer's.
Life can get all snarled up at times ... a change is as good as a rest, they say. Do what comes naturally to your brush, Dan, and leave the world to look after itself!
Happy New Year - I'm really glad your back: the wit of your pen and your brush were missed!
Hi John! Welcome back to you too! And happy new year! You were missed as well. And I of course read your posts! Laughed when the American brought his own ideas to the holidays. I need to comment - there has been much less time for that sort of thing. I wish I could keep the world to look after itself. Working on it!
DeleteThis painting is spectacular Dan. It's got deep space, great color and expert composition. What better way to chase away the sadnesses, the disappointments, the demons of last year--note the 'last' year--than letting it go with paint on canvas? I could have written your post. I've thought of wiping the slate clean, but I must paint, I must write. It's who I am--you too. Post, don't post, but keep on painting jewels like this. The world is going to spin as it spins. All we can do is whatever we can do. Collectively, we may be able to move some mountains.
ReplyDeleteHello Dan.
ReplyDeleteWell I hope you're not going to give up on us with this blog. It is important that not only do you draw/paint but that your creations get seen.
I kind of fell into this painting...right into the middle.
Happy New Year!
Stew
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ReplyDeleteHappy new Year Dan. Keep going!
ReplyDeleteI'll reply to your long message to me soon.
What you're saying is completely true. I know that everybody must say the same thing, but I just think that you put it in a way that everyone can understand. I'm sure you'll reach so many people with what you've got to say.
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