Consistency.

Successful Artists are doing something different.

Success is not some sky rocket moment in your Art career, success is consistently turning up and doing the things that will make you successful.

The interesting thing about consistency is that with consistent work comes consistent inspiration.

Painting doesn’t just realise ideas, it creates them.

Consistently working at your craft in a deliberate fashion puts you where good ideas can find you.

To often Artists are very stop start in their practice and the good ideas seem to run out and we hear statements like Artist’s block and no inspiration, yet those Artist who consistently turn up every day and paint, find that inspiration turns up with them.

The best advice I was ever given about writing was not to wait for inspiration to write, but to just write.

Then once you start writing, you may have one or two false starts but then it begins to flow, if I know I have to do it every day it amazing how inspiration turns up when I do.

I am convinced it isn’t inspiration that flows it is that consistent work produces consistent results.

The more you do it, the more you can do it.

If you want to become a famous Artist and that is your goal, the way to achieve that is to constantly turn up every day and paint.

The process of painting every day achieves the goals.

The reason that many people never achieve their goals is because it’s easier to make excuses when we don’t commit to working consistently, but rather think big surges of energy and inspiration occasionally will do it, erratic effort will not produce lasting results.

You have to do the work to achieve your goals and it must be consistent work, deliberately done.

There is no magic in the goal, the miracle is in the work.