The daily struggle.

Well it’s a new day and the thief might have been defeated yesterday but it be back even stronger today.

That’s what I love about Art, the constant daily struggle, the sense of a life and death struggle with the “thief”, the scary, that’s what makes an Artist, knowing every day if you want to make great Art that you will need to fight and win the day and then again the next day and the next day and the next.

To accomplish great Art it will be a daily battle with the “thief” it is tenacious and will not stop.

The thief is sneaky and will use lots of tricks to stop you, it will use procrastination, excuses, self criticism and if these don’t work it will use shame, “ Who do think you are to think your work is so good, you are not an Artist, you are a fraud” very powerful or “ People will laugh at your work and criticize you.”

These tactics cause people to retreat and get into safe comfortable places, yes you will still paint but it will become repetitive and average and you will wonder where the thrill has gone.

It is in the daily battle with that scary “thief” that great bodies of work are created, not in the common, average and mediocre.

When the thief arrives greet it and say “ You have arrived I must be doing something good now I will continue doing it.”

To be an Artist, you will need to be ready each day for the battle with the enemy within, defeat it today and create beautiful original Artwork.

Tomorrow is a new day, continue to be victorious over the enemy within.