Dear keine:

It will take a whole lot of time- if you work hard and smart- to silence that voice telling you to do “good art” and not “bad art”- a whole lots of time to wait before you can create art.

What I would do if I was you would be to purposefully create “Bad Art”-

I wanted to create art but lacked the technique. Had a class, oil/ acrylic painting, but one class was not enough. I got the feel of it though, the pleasure of learning a technique and I liked it. I mastered the beginning of a technique and could have gone on but didn’t. So technique is necessary.

And then the topic. This is my most prized painting (no longer have it): a head of a person, maybe me, with a hand coming out of my skull as in reaching out for help (I was very troubled, of course). That was my Real Art- that was ME.

So, coming to think about it (as I type), how about focusing on Me Art instead of Good Art and Bad Art.

The Good Art and Bad Art are other-focused. Make your art Me-Focused.

Your art and your life used to be about others: what would make them happy. Make both about you: it is your time, your life, your art.

anita