As a painter that went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This also resonates. The pursuit of prestige has brought me mainly mental illness. As I consider going back to school for my education licensee. I’m trying to learn how to only expect happiness from my art.
OOOF "the pursuit of prestige has brought me mainly mental illness" Solidarity on that for sure. Art education is my main income stream as a freelancer and I love it (but its also vv exhausting) Wishing you the best on the path of expecting happiness and joy from your work.
I work a full time job (retail) that gets fast paced on the weekends. For years I’ve been observing people trying to go faster and faster through their lives, rushing toward some end point that no one knows. In retail, you get all the next season’s goods before the one you’re in has really even started. No one has the chance to slow down and savor any season at all anymore. It’s like some giant motor wound everyone up and is pushing them faster and faster. No one sees anymore. Except the ones who have deliberately pushed back, deliberately slowed down, to enjoy the moment before us. And we get warnings, “better keep up or you’ll be left behind. You’ll Miss Out.” Miss out on what? This crow feather right in my driveway is all I need right now. The three hawks circling and singing in the sky above me are all I need. Rain, in the morning, sun in the afternoon, a trip to a local beach where the very air restores my soul in a way I can’t explain, I can only say, if you know, you know. The pandemic was frightening and awful. I don’t want another. But it slowed people down a little. It was wonderful, for that. More people need to push back on this relentless motor and slow down, and See, and Be. We could all benefit from some soul healing, I think. Thanks for your video, it felt like a hug to me. ❤
awww thank you for this comment! as a former retail worker (15 years!) this hits home for sure. The fast pace is such a wacky farce and our bodies will eventually yell at us and tell us to slow down! So glad this felt like a hug : ) hope that more crow feathers show up on your driveway soon.
I've just finished a foundation year and one thing it's taught me is that professors, teachers, mentors etc are just human beings with opinions. They may have alot of valuable insight, but you know what you want better than anyone else ever will. Peace
I’m sorry but someone has to say it or we are too used to see vlogs this quality… but wow, WHAT A MOVIE. So beautiful! Thanks for putting in the work and sharing!
Thank you so much! These videos are my favorite collaboration between my partner and I. Our slow deliberate pace is the only way we can capture all this for you. Excited for you to enjoy more! Cheers!
Yes! You stated this all so beautifully! It was calming just to watch this video. And totally agree about how nature and being out in it helps you reconnect with yourself without distractions...love!
I love that you describe yourself as an adventure artist. Another artist who hikes and records those hikes in her paintings is Sarah Burns. Like you she does lovely panoramic videos and is very real about her experience. I live in the remote Central Highlands of Tasmania and when I came here for the first time I felt as if I had finally come home. I escaped here from a big city on mainland Australia and it's the best thing I ever did. It's 20 years now living in this wild place and any trip off this mountain is preceded by 2 days or more of dread and panic attacks. But then I come home to this wild place, to my husband and animals and wilderness that nurtures us and I can breath again.
I love Sarah Burns! Thank you for the comparison! Thanks for sharing about your experience moving into nature. Someday, we hope to leave the Bay Area to do this same thing. What a wonderful peace you're able to cultivate at home!
@@MelMitchJackArt I'm so glad you follow her. And I love how despite watching her videos, no doubt for a long time, you have developed your own unique videography and narrative style. I really look forward to where you take things here.
This really resonated with me. I am not an artist, in the conventional sense, but a big part of me longs to be creative. I found a lot of peace, out in the wilderness, living in my minivan for about 6 years. But I'm back in sticks and bricks now, and i don't really know what to do with myself.
Excellent Presentation. Bravo! For the past 21 years, I have been in the midst of an artistic expression that began by stumbling into abstract photography, moved into digital art where I began writing my thoughts out on the abstract photographs, morphed into an equation for time emerging, and culminating in a 1100 page Anthology about my life and thoughts generated with the help of several Ai large language models. I think that I have forged a true artistic expression like not other in history. An expression that I have done for my own peace of mind. An artistic expression that the art world care nothing about. I greatly appreciate your world view that you have so eloquently described. Thank you, David Noel Lynch ~3K
Loving your channel, your vulnerabilities are no match for your energy and your maturing skills. We see you thinking and it's fun to watch. California is always calling, you'd be perfect here. Nice cam and edits, good job. It would be nice to see more of your work too.
Thank you glad to have you here! I love California, always have and live here now! Feel so lucky. I have a bunch of painting process filmed that I will be sure to share soon! Cheers.
I find I enjoy hiking alone with a camera, sometimes I have an idea of what I want to photograph sometimes it's whatever strikes me as I'm on the trail. I find it relaxing and invigorating to be out and observing at my own pace. Great video!!!
A reply to your previous video about art schools closing and the price of tuition: I am dumbfounded listening to these numbers. I will give you THE reason tuitions everywhere are so high. Up until the 1990s, there was a cap on how much you could borrow on a student loan. ie in 1980, the School of Visual Arts in NYC had a yearly tuition of $3800. Yes yearly tuition of $3800 or $1600 per semester. The most a student could borrow on a student loan was $2500. Not to blame because I’m not sure who is directly responsible, but it was during the Clinton Administration in the 1990s, who removed the borrowing cap. This is when tuition sky rocketed. Once the schools knew the student could borrow more, they started ratcheting up the tuition to where it is today.
Don't go broke, get your fundamentals, get accredited if you want to (formally) teach. Beyond that, find your bliss and make your art! And, if there is a non soul sucking job to be had (that allows you to get livable cash) to complement your art career... take it until you need no day/night jobs! It is really awesome to get support from the gatekeepers in the art world, but not at the expense of your peace of mind or your life savings. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art” - Warhol. Warhol and Richard Prince are the embodiment of everybody is an artist. They experimented, bent and shattered the rules and were aligned enough to make serious money in the process. One thing I have observed about art.... Good/ Great or something even described as art is subjective. They don't teach follow your instincts in art school because they would loose control. It's best to get your art history and your fundamentals and your accreditation (if you are teaching) from school and be a creative mad person once you finish your formal education. I just finished a digital piece with the quote. We buy Sh!* we don't need - with money we don't have - to impress people we don't like. The title of the Piece is " invest in yourself and do blissful things." I am a true believer in that title. Invest in yourself and do blissful things! As an artist, I got things (tools) that I wanted to use and learn on. I experiment and make stuff. If I like it I put it online. If people like the work I get commissions. I keep my day job because it's work that I can do and it's consistent cash flow. I don't obsess on whether I'm an artist or not. Most of the time, when people ask I tell them I make stuff and for those who express interest I give them a link to the work.
Hi Mel. I'm not to your channel bit love your videos. One of the things I struggle with the most is the 9-to-5. Like probably most people, I work so I can survive, not because I have any passion for the job I'm in. It can be quite soul destroying l, especially when you don't feel your art is valued, which, in the modern world, is very true. I would love to know how you feel about/ deal with this. Cheers.
Such a fair comment. I just wrapped up a contract that I could qualify as a temporary 9-5 and it was tough on me to the point where my back seized up the second to last day and I almost couldn't finish the job. As far as finding your art valued, I'm working on a few videos that will discuss this (coming soon) and I think I should make something about how I handled my art practice when I was working FT. That job really was soul-destroying but the art practice itself was required for my survival and rebirth. Fantastic ideas. I just started a Discord server and this would be a great thing to discuss at one of our upcoming Sketchbook Club gatherings. (see the link in the description for more)
feel this. Im constantly in that "gotta be productive mindset" and I do think it can put a dampener on my art. as when I just create out of that mindset. it ends up being art I love most.
It's so tough to turn off that ~*~little worker brain~*~ as I call it. Especially since both 1. I've been conditioned to work as hard as possible all the time and 2. if I'm "doing what I love, why wouldn't I be as productive as possible?" to its detriment. But, when we rest and remove ourselves from the pressure we can make. So with you on this and happy to know you have strategies to create OUT of that mindset.
You're getting wisdom. Prestige means nothing. There are people who really think the most important things in life are: status, money, sense pleasure, attention, and power. They forget: meaning, love (not just sex), Creativity, wonder, harmony, serenity, tranquility, focus, drive, imagination, positive habits/thoughts/feelings, etc
Wonderful! Freedom!! .. Mel, art itself, not just life as an artist - and not just "art world" fake prestige, also has a reality getting into which requires an orientation change. Anyway: BRAVO!
I've no clue why the algorithm suggested your channel to me. Well, I went to RISD. And, what I mean by that is, I walked around the campus when I was in Providence visiting HP Lovecraft-related sites a few years back. I have zero connection to the art world besides looking through the windows of the (strangely numeous) art galleries in my small town. Luckily my town also allows for me to explore nature, and I believe having that outlet is the only reason I'm still (somewhat) sane. "Stop and smell the roses" meant nothing to me as a child; now I treat that as an imperative. After watching a handful of your videos, I've "belled" your channel and am very much looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
I just found this channel like just now. And I immediately subscribed after a few seconds of one of your videos. I don't know why, but your aura seems so nice. The video I saw was you quitting your job to purse art, it kinda inspired me as a person who also works in tech with a hobby in art. I love what I do in tech, but I haven't had a chance to draw in months because of my focus in tech. I really hope you succeed in your full time art journey ❤
This was a very relaxing video to listen to, even while relating to numerous anxieties that many of us young artists go through. Also, gorgeous scenery all around.
drawings used to flow out of me. now it is like my soul is actually a butthole and my creativity is constipated from flowing through it. its annoying me. i am sorry that you suffer from a chronic illness. i tend to avoid scary and anxiety which is probably part of why i myself am stuck. it also does not help that when drawings could still flow easily i was noticing that my abilities were not where i wanted them to be. some things i just couldn't draw. so that all slowly stopped me. then the climate and politics gets involved and its all derailed. what you are describing in the video is important. and something i want to do. to feel freedom and be on my adventure. but if i cant even get one drawing out, it seems far away. id love to be a famous artist. that can live off all the paintings and drawings i made, and that is famous for what he is saying in his art and no other reason. but these days it seems far away. i also love photography. photography is my good friend. in my dreams i become a well known photographer/painter/drawer/writer and my whole world is in all of it.
oh noooooo! creative 💩 can be hard sometimes. Heading out on my own as a freelancer last October definitely gave me a fair share of the scaries and anxiety. As far as the struggle to do A drawing, do you work in a sketchbook? those have become really important and intimate spaces for me to goof off. Same goes for procreate, having the ability to trace and undo works wonders. trace some of those amazing photos you've taken too, its not cheating! Vermeer did it! Also, check the description i started a Discord server and i think you'll dig it!
@@MelMitchJackArt i do have a sketchbook. i have a couple. but what seems to be the case is that i end up either doing what i call over glorified sketches or i look at the blank page and dont know what to do. i somehow have to undo whatever this is that has me stuck. you know printing out and tracing some of them could be nice. i like that idea. procreate is something i dont have. i tend to only physically draw. though digital art has amazing possibilities and i think could be fun. I will have to get myself a discord and see about getting on it.
Ha ha haaaa - you’re young and bright - you will rally but “toil” is a must. I’m a ditch digger after 7 years and three schools with nine brilliant kids in marin county - you have a gift and YOU ARE ART -
I went to university because I thought that’s the thing to do, and I realized it didn’t serve me as much as people claimed it would. However if I didn’t go I might be claiming today my lack of success on the fact I didn’t have a degree and connections etc. but it didn’t really guarantee work and money. Now you know both perspectives for sure and you can allow full faith in your own intuition. It was a necessary experience to have this perspective. By the way, while I love hiking, recently I discovered rockhounding and lapidary work. There’s something about finding a beautiful stone in the wild that polishing it into a gem has been an immensely satisfying art. I’m learning to carve small stones I’ve found but I don’t do it for money, it gets me excited to go out and explore the world.
I feel you on the "following the thing to do" in regards to getting the degree. Our experiences always inform the person were growing into and becoming. Rockhounding and lapidary work isn't something I've known about but that sounds SO cool. Especially as you go out and experience so much of the beauty around you. Thanks for sharing!
Mel, great work. I'm going through lots of the same things, living and loving the same questions. It's nice to know I'm a normal human going through normal human stuff. Cheers.
As a painter that went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This also resonates. The pursuit of prestige has brought me mainly mental illness. As I consider going back to school for my education licensee. I’m trying to learn how to only expect happiness from my art.
OOOF "the pursuit of prestige has brought me mainly mental illness" Solidarity on that for sure. Art education is my main income stream as a freelancer and I love it (but its also vv exhausting)
Wishing you the best on the path of expecting happiness and joy from your work.
I work a full time job (retail) that gets fast paced on the weekends. For years I’ve been observing people trying to go faster and faster through their lives, rushing toward some end point that no one knows. In retail, you get all the next season’s goods before the one you’re in has really even started. No one has the chance to slow down and savor any season at all anymore. It’s like some giant motor wound everyone up and is pushing them faster and faster. No one sees anymore.
Except the ones who have deliberately pushed back, deliberately slowed down, to enjoy the moment before us. And we get warnings, “better keep up or you’ll be left behind. You’ll Miss Out.”
Miss out on what? This crow feather right in my driveway is all I need right now. The three hawks circling and singing in the sky above me are all I need. Rain, in the morning, sun in the afternoon, a trip to a local beach where the very air restores my soul in a way I can’t explain, I can only say, if you know, you know.
The pandemic was frightening and awful. I don’t want another. But it slowed people down a little. It was wonderful, for that.
More people need to push back on this relentless motor and slow down, and See, and Be. We could all benefit from some soul healing, I think.
Thanks for your video, it felt like a hug to me. ❤
awww thank you for this comment! as a former retail worker (15 years!) this hits home for sure. The fast pace is such a wacky farce and our bodies will eventually yell at us and tell us to slow down! So glad this felt like a hug : ) hope that more crow feathers show up on your driveway soon.
I've just finished a foundation year and one thing it's taught me is that professors, teachers, mentors etc are just human beings with opinions. They may have alot of valuable insight, but you know what you want better than anyone else ever will. Peace
I’m sorry but someone has to say it or we are too used to see vlogs this quality… but wow, WHAT A MOVIE. So beautiful! Thanks for putting in the work and sharing!
Thank you so much! These videos are my favorite collaboration between my partner and I. Our slow deliberate pace is the only way we can capture all this for you. Excited for you to enjoy more! Cheers!
Yes! You stated this all so beautifully! It was calming just to watch this video. And totally agree about how nature and being out in it helps you reconnect with yourself without distractions...love!
I love that you describe yourself as an adventure artist. Another artist who hikes and records those hikes in her paintings is Sarah Burns. Like you she does lovely panoramic videos and is very real about her experience. I live in the remote Central Highlands of Tasmania and when I came here for the first time I felt as if I had finally come home. I escaped here from a big city on mainland Australia and it's the best thing I ever did. It's 20 years now living in this wild place and any trip off this mountain is preceded by 2 days or more of dread and panic attacks. But then I come home to this wild place, to my husband and animals and wilderness that nurtures us and I can breath again.
I love Sarah Burns! Thank you for the comparison! Thanks for sharing about your experience moving into nature. Someday, we hope to leave the Bay Area to do this same thing. What a wonderful peace you're able to cultivate at home!
@@MelMitchJackArt I'm so glad you follow her. And I love how despite watching her videos, no doubt for a long time, you have developed your own unique videography and narrative style. I really look forward to where you take things here.
This really resonated with me. I am not an artist, in the conventional sense, but a big part of me longs to be creative. I found a lot of peace, out in the wilderness, living in my minivan for about 6 years. But I'm back in sticks and bricks now, and i don't really know what to do with myself.
Thank you! I love this! You might like my videos on sketchbooking, as its a great and portable way to start and work towards finding your voice.
Excellent Presentation. Bravo!
For the past 21 years, I have been in the midst of an artistic expression that began by stumbling into abstract photography, moved into digital art where I began writing my thoughts out on the abstract photographs, morphed into an equation for time emerging, and culminating in a 1100 page Anthology about my life and thoughts generated with the help of several Ai large language models.
I think that I have forged a true artistic expression like not other in history. An expression that I have done for my own peace of mind. An artistic expression that the art world care nothing about.
I greatly appreciate your world view that you have so eloquently described.
Thank you,
David Noel Lynch
~3K
@@3KnoWell thank you! So glad it resonated with your artistic voice!
Really love your videos - in art school currently and listening to you is like giving voice to my inner thoughts
Thank you so much!! I’m glad I could make you feel seen! You got this!
Loving your channel, your vulnerabilities are no match for your energy and your maturing skills. We see you thinking and it's fun to watch. California is always calling, you'd be perfect here. Nice cam and edits, good job. It would be nice to see more of your work too.
Thank you glad to have you here! I love California, always have and live here now! Feel so lucky. I have a bunch of painting process filmed that I will be sure to share soon! Cheers.
Thank you for this beautiful message to spend time in nature and connect with what's more important than prestige.
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I find I enjoy hiking alone with a camera, sometimes I have an idea of what I want to photograph sometimes it's whatever strikes me as I'm on the trail. I find it relaxing and invigorating to be out and observing at my own pace. Great video!!!
Amazing! This is so great! Walking slowly is the BEST! : )
A reply to your previous video about art schools closing and the price of tuition:
I am dumbfounded listening to these numbers.
I will give you THE reason tuitions everywhere are so high.
Up until the 1990s, there was a cap on how much you could borrow on a student loan. ie in 1980, the School of Visual Arts in NYC had a yearly tuition of $3800. Yes yearly tuition of $3800 or $1600 per semester. The most a student could borrow on a student loan was $2500.
Not to blame because I’m not sure who is directly responsible, but it was during the Clinton Administration in the 1990s, who removed the borrowing cap. This is when tuition sky rocketed. Once the schools knew the student could borrow more, they started ratcheting up the tuition to where it is today.
Don't go broke, get your fundamentals, get accredited if you want to (formally) teach. Beyond that, find your bliss and make your art! And, if there is a non soul sucking job to be had (that allows you to get livable cash) to complement your art career... take it until you need no day/night jobs!
It is really awesome to get support from the gatekeepers in the art world, but not at the expense of your peace of mind or your life savings. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art” - Warhol. Warhol and Richard Prince are the embodiment of everybody is an artist. They experimented, bent and shattered the rules and were aligned enough to make serious money in the process. One thing I have observed about art.... Good/ Great or something even described as art is subjective.
They don't teach follow your instincts in art school because they would loose control. It's best to get your art history and your fundamentals and your accreditation (if you are teaching) from school and be a creative mad person once you finish your formal education.
I just finished a digital piece with the quote. We buy Sh!* we don't need - with money we don't have - to impress people we don't like. The title of the Piece is " invest in yourself and do blissful things." I am a true believer in that title. Invest in yourself and do blissful things!
As an artist, I got things (tools) that I wanted to use and learn on. I experiment and make stuff. If I like it I put it online. If people like the work I get commissions. I keep my day job because it's work that I can do and it's consistent cash flow. I don't obsess on whether I'm an artist or not. Most of the time, when people ask I tell them I make stuff and for those who express interest I give them a link to the work.
Love this and the perspective you share here. I appreciate a good Warhol quote every now and again too. Glad your job supports your bliss!
Hi Mel. I'm not to your channel bit love your videos. One of the things I struggle with the most is the 9-to-5. Like probably most people, I work so I can survive, not because I have any passion for the job I'm in. It can be quite soul destroying l, especially when you don't feel your art is valued, which, in the modern world, is very true. I would love to know how you feel about/ deal with this. Cheers.
Such a fair comment. I just wrapped up a contract that I could qualify as a temporary 9-5 and it was tough on me to the point where my back seized up the second to last day and I almost couldn't finish the job. As far as finding your art valued, I'm working on a few videos that will discuss this (coming soon) and I think I should make something about how I handled my art practice when I was working FT. That job really was soul-destroying but the art practice itself was required for my survival and rebirth. Fantastic ideas.
I just started a Discord server and this would be a great thing to discuss at one of our upcoming Sketchbook Club gatherings. (see the link in the description for more)
feel this. Im constantly in that "gotta be productive mindset" and I do think it can put a dampener on my art. as when I just create out of that mindset. it ends up being art I love most.
It's so tough to turn off that ~*~little worker brain~*~ as I call it. Especially since both 1. I've been conditioned to work as hard as possible all the time and 2. if I'm "doing what I love, why wouldn't I be as productive as possible?" to its detriment.
But, when we rest and remove ourselves from the pressure we can make. So with you on this and happy to know you have strategies to create OUT of that mindset.
You're getting wisdom. Prestige means nothing. There are people who really think the most important things in life are: status, money, sense pleasure, attention, and power.
They forget: meaning, love (not just sex),
Creativity, wonder, harmony, serenity, tranquility, focus, drive, imagination, positive habits/thoughts/feelings, etc
Wonderful! Freedom!!
.. Mel, art itself, not just life as an artist - and not just "art world" fake prestige, also has a reality getting into which requires an orientation change.
Anyway: BRAVO!
I've no clue why the algorithm suggested your channel to me. Well, I went to RISD. And, what I mean by that is, I walked around the campus when I was in Providence visiting HP Lovecraft-related sites a few years back. I have zero connection to the art world besides looking through the windows of the (strangely numeous) art galleries in my small town. Luckily my town also allows for me to explore nature, and I believe having that outlet is the only reason I'm still (somewhat) sane. "Stop and smell the roses" meant nothing to me as a child; now I treat that as an imperative.
After watching a handful of your videos, I've "belled" your channel and am very much looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I just found this channel like just now. And I immediately subscribed after a few seconds of one of your videos. I don't know why, but your aura seems so nice. The video I saw was you quitting your job to purse art, it kinda inspired me as a person who also works in tech with a hobby in art. I love what I do in tech, but I haven't had a chance to draw in months because of my focus in tech. I really hope you succeed in your full time art journey ❤
This was a very relaxing video to listen to, even while relating to numerous anxieties that many of us young artists go through. Also, gorgeous scenery all around.
So glad you liked it and can relate! My goal was to make something relaxing and inspiring! So glad I did it : )
Another great video filled with kindnesses and truths! Awesome!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
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drawings used to flow out of me. now it is like my soul is actually a butthole and my creativity is constipated from flowing through it. its annoying me. i am sorry that you suffer from a chronic illness. i tend to avoid scary and anxiety which is probably part of why i myself am stuck. it also does not help that when drawings could still flow easily i was noticing that my abilities were not where i wanted them to be. some things i just couldn't draw. so that all slowly stopped me. then the climate and politics gets involved and its all derailed. what you are describing in the video is important. and something i want to do. to feel freedom and be on my adventure. but if i cant even get one drawing out, it seems far away. id love to be a famous artist. that can live off all the paintings and drawings i made, and that is famous for what he is saying in his art and no other reason. but these days it seems far away. i also love photography. photography is my good friend. in my dreams i become a well known photographer/painter/drawer/writer and my whole world is in all of it.
oh noooooo! creative 💩 can be hard sometimes. Heading out on my own as a freelancer last October definitely gave me a fair share of the scaries and anxiety. As far as the struggle to do A drawing, do you work in a sketchbook? those have become really important and intimate spaces for me to goof off. Same goes for procreate, having the ability to trace and undo works wonders. trace some of those amazing photos you've taken too, its not cheating! Vermeer did it!
Also, check the description i started a Discord server and i think you'll dig it!
@@MelMitchJackArt i do have a sketchbook. i have a couple. but what seems to be the case is that i end up either doing what i call over glorified sketches or i look at the blank page and dont know what to do. i somehow have to undo whatever this is that has me stuck. you know printing out and tracing some of them could be nice. i like that idea. procreate is something i dont have. i tend to only physically draw. though digital art has amazing possibilities and i think could be fun. I will have to get myself a discord and see about getting on it.
❤️❤️❤️
Ha ha haaaa - you’re young and bright - you will rally but “toil” is a must. I’m a ditch digger after 7 years and three schools with nine brilliant kids in marin county - you have a gift and YOU ARE ART -
beautiful storage. i love your message. Take time to paint the flowers 😊
thank you so much!
I went to university because I thought that’s the thing to do, and I realized it didn’t serve me as much as people claimed it would. However if I didn’t go I might be claiming today my lack of success on the fact I didn’t have a degree and connections etc. but it didn’t really guarantee work and money. Now you know both perspectives for sure and you can allow full faith in your own intuition. It was a necessary experience to have this perspective.
By the way, while I love hiking, recently I discovered rockhounding and lapidary work. There’s something about finding a beautiful stone in the wild that polishing it into a gem has been an immensely satisfying art. I’m learning to carve small stones I’ve found but I don’t do it for money, it gets me excited to go out and explore the world.
I feel you on the "following the thing to do" in regards to getting the degree. Our experiences always inform the person were growing into and becoming. Rockhounding and lapidary work isn't something I've known about but that sounds SO cool. Especially as you go out and experience so much of the beauty around you. Thanks for sharing!
Mel, great work. I'm going through lots of the same things, living and loving the same questions. It's nice to know I'm a normal human going through normal human stuff. Cheers.
Thank you so much! Cheers to being humans living similar timelines! Glad it resonated.