| Posted: 17 July 2011 at 6:36am | IP Logged | 5
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I was looking again at this piece, just now, and allowing myself to appreciate it for what it is, rather than beating myself up, as I usually do, for what I find WRONG with it. And as I absorbed the image, I found myself feeling both happy and frustrated.Happy, because I was clearly having one of my all-too-infrequent "Damn, I'm Good!" Days, working on this piece. And Frustrated because they ARE so infrequent. And, to make matters worse, I have no CONTROL over them. I do not have the power to sit at the board and think "Today will be a 'Damn, I'm Good!' Day!" EVERY day! Looking thru the commissions gallery, I can honestly say that, as with 99.999% of my work, there are no pieces I am actually ashamed of. Each one is the very best work I was able to produce on that particular day, at that particular moment in my life. But some are just so much BETTER. This is when I find myself envying those artists whose work has such a strong thread of CONSISTENCY. Even the BAD artists, who, nevertheless, hit the same mark virtually every time. I wish my personal demons would let me do that more often!!!
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