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The joy is indescribable. I made a monumental leap in my painting tonight! I am so excited right now that I don’t think I can fall asleep tonight!

Lately I’ve been doing lots of reading, thinking, reflecting, and listening to other artists. I have a critique group and that really helped too. After weeks of meditating on some thoughts, there’s finally a break through today. I know now that from this day forward my paintings will be so much more alive, and engaging, than before. I am working on the 3rd painting in my Zion series right now, and boy, this third one is worlds above the first and second. The improvement is such a great leap that now I don’t like most of my recent works anymore.

To be honest, the past couple of months have been frustrating creativity-wise. Perhaps it was the busy life I lead, or the expectation I give myself, or the upsetting changes at work, I felt quite constraint. The creative energy that once infuse me seemed to have gone dried. I was quite frustrated with myself that I dealt with it not by taking a break, but by painting more, which probably added to the stress.

But today that layer of grey fog is officially gone, in replacement is the long-awaited rays of sunlight! This newly rekindled energy came just in time for my serious deadlines too, as I’ll be in two shows in December, then one in March 2010 (overseas), then another one in June 2010, then another one to get ready for in March 2011.

Yay!

Posted on November 18th, 2009 under Painting talk • RSS 2.0 feed • You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed