When I’m not painting, I’m always writing.
Greetings fellow Steemians,
You know whenever people ask me if I ever run out of ideas or things to paint, or experience an artistic drought; writing always comes to mind.
I never stop writing.
When I’m not painting, I’m always writing.
At a very young age, I felt fortunate in the realization of the absurdity of what we define as an “artist’s drought”.
I am confident in that considering how much I’ve written so far, I won’t be able to LIVE long enough to be able to paint and draw everything I want to.
Even if one were to just write what would appear to be a few “random key words” everyday, that will take you very far.
Personally when I practice that, I can just look at it and everything will just click together in what I’m wanting to depict. As I continue to write everyday I know I’ll never experience a dry spell. I’ll ALWAYS have something to work on!
Additionally, there are plenty of instances where these small insightful moments merge together with others, and that’s okay too.
I never underestimate the power of the written word.
Besides for always having plenty of creative material to fall back on, the very act of writing sharpens one’s ability to think in the first place. Hence the more you write, the better your ideas will be.
Of course not all ideas are all that great, or even equal for that matter. Some remain perpetually foggy, half baked or even constantly in the way until were able to sort them out by writing about them.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of seeing the results and having the ability of clear thinking!
And this I owe to the continual practice of writing.
Please feel free to let me know what you think?
Thanks for reading Everyone!
-James Hansen