The painting and painting.

No one knows how to do what you want to do because you have not done it yet.

No one knew how to paint a masterpiece before they did it the first time.

Picasso did not know how to paint “ Guernica” before he did it.

Nobody knew what “ Guernica” would look like.

Nobody knew what it should look like, before Picasso had painted it.

We start with an idea… “Fly to the moon.”

How do we do that?

Nobody knew how to do that, it had never been done before.

No instruction manual to follow.

Nobody had been to the moon before so they had to make it up as they went along.

There was no map, no instructions, just an idea that they had to turn into a reality and imagine they did it.

So with Art, before Jackson Pollock did “ Blue Poles” it had never been done before.

Before Monet painted the water lilies series, he had never done it before.

Art is a great adventure into the unknown doing things for the first time.

Art is about courage and stepping into the unknown and discovering you just painted your “ Guernica “ or “ Blue poles” and the exciting part is that they were not an end in themselves but a part of the journey defining a certain day, time, emotion and place in that journey.

It is never about painting a masterpiece it is always about painting. I am sure neither Picasso nor Pollock when they were painting their painting never thought to themselves that they were painting a masterpiece, they were just painting, working, because that is what they did.

The painting is a result of you painting, and it is not an end in itself it is just a part of the journey.

You the Artist are more important than the painting because without your creativity and all that makes up you, there would be no painting.

Rejoice in who you are all you are because that determines why you paint and what you paint..