Tag: Windstone

A Whirlwind of a Year!

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Once again I am looking at my website and realizing it has been an entire year since I updated it!
last August, we bought our first home. It needed lots of elbow grease and paint so for months we were working on making it “ours”. Then, in December we got our first dog! If you’ve never owned a puppy, let me tell you – they are a LOT of work! Even now, with a 5 month old puppy, my life is still 65% puppy watching, 35% everything else!

Still, I have been painting (although very, very rarely) and we are working on getting the puppy used to me working from home so that I can actually do commissions again soon, so that’s exciting.

In the mean time.. here are all the pieces that I never uploaded to the website (plus a few bonus puppy pics!). Thanks for still being here and checking on me <3

Motivation and the Ease of Not Trying

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Once again, it’s been a long time. I’ve got no excuses, just the hope that I’ll get better at updating this page and increasing my art output.

I painted this watercolor picture about 8 months ago, and have recently been working hard on getting into painting Windstones again. It’s been refreshing and nice to concentrate on something productive after a year of being relatively unproductive.

Motivation is always the killer, and the most substantial wall blocking me from improving on my art. This last year has been probably one of the biggest motivation killers I’ve ever had.

My goal this year is simple. I need to practice more, plan less. I get hung up on things not being “perfect”, even though nothing ever is, and I let those hang-ups help kill my motivation because it’s just easier not to try. Watching TV is easier. Playing games is easier. If I want to improve I need to learn to motivate myself, even if it is manufactured.

Because in the long run, I love to make art. Looking back at old pieces – as flawed as they can be, and as imperfect as they are – lifts me up. I get a boost of serotonin just from seeing even the smallest improvements. Imagine how it would feel to improve in a major way! It must be achieved in small steps – ones that I may not even notice until I look back.

How do you motivate yourself to achieve things?