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RE: Developing Your Art: Finding Time for Everything!

in #art6 years ago

This is a really cool article @alchemystones, thanks for using the #artzone tag. Your stones are beautiful!

I call what you’re referring to ‘lack of instant gratification.’ Like the guy who joined the gym last month, didn’t lose any weight and isn’t at the department store buying tank-tops—his instant gratification wasn’t met. All good things take time.

I can see you have a lot of time into your rocks—thanks for sharing this with us.

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Thanks for the kind words and encouragement @dandays!

I think we live in this world where everything around us has slowly been reduced to the length of tweets and text messages... and it seems like a lot of people fall into the trap of thinking that somehow we can shoehorn created by hand into the that box. You just can't.

I started painting on stones some 10-12 years ago, and before that I have drawn mandalas as pen and ink on paper since my teens. It's only in the last few years I have started "taking myself seriously enough" to consider turning this into an actual occupation, and this blog is part of describing that journey...