Painting.

One of the great joys of life is watching children paint.

Children paint wholeheartedly without tension, because they are not aware of what people think, only of what they are doing and feeling.

When a child paints there is no right or wrong, no thought about perspective, tone, balance, tension, complementary colours etc, these things do not come into the equation, for them it is about painting.

What is always important to them is that they are painting, in reality the painting that they are doing is not even as important as the action of painting, only after it is finished do they want praise for what they produced.

But for adults so many things come into play even before we pick up the brush to put the first colour onto the canvas, for many a real battle takes place because of the pressure to produce a masterpiece.

Stop, before you paint and allow yourself to just paint, nothing else is important, just paint.

Of course there will be days of good painting and days of bad painting, but what is important is that you are painting.

What you feel, paint it.

What you think about, paint it.

What you see, paint it.

That you are painting is what's important., your life, your feelings, your journey.

I truly believe that it is not about any one painting, it is about the act of painting.

Concentrate on painting and feeling like you did as a child, live in today and paint.