The Artist is Speaking today..

Some days it is hard to leave the paints and canvas and go to the "real job" (which I love too!). I'm working on this tribal art with a teeny tiny brush and I know when it's all done it's going to be awesome but it's not easy to commit to. So it hit me sometime yesterday and I found my Groove which was missing for four days. Groove has it's own agenda, it shanghais my heart in other directions or just goes funk on me now and then. So Groove came back and we have been going strong.
There is a large elephant hanging out in the corner though beckoning me. It could be as my dear friend Mat puts it "my next Mona Lisa"...It's in stage two of painting, lines drawn, base colors laid, and its the beginning of all beginnings. Every painting is like a love affair. Your drawn into it, it whispers of possibility, the infatuation, the satisfaction, and then the final end where you look back upon it and wow, if it's the real deal,
you have created something for life.
It's there branded in your mind and your heart. It's a piece of your soul out on display.....
Stay with me awhile Groove, we need this new love...

Lets start with D.H. Lawrence

So I've had Fantasia of the Unconscious now for weeks and I can't get past his foreword. I usually skip forewords. I flip quickly thinking blah blah blah get to the meat of this already. So here I am stuck in his foreword and amused by it. (I have read other books meanwhile ok) He offers no apologies and begins this book by first telling it like it is, really just because you can read does not mean your going to get this. Idiots please exit to your left. Closed minded thinkers to the right.
I always feel this way when I paint. People get excited and say Oh! I want to see your work....well I like to put a disclaimer on it. You May NOt get it... Not my problem! It's like this, that just because you have eyes does not mean we see things the same way.... So thank you dear D.H. for putting it so eloquently.

There is more....(it's a long Foreword)