The Creative Journey

I've been reading and rereading your comments on this post and thinking about all the good wisdom you shared with me and all of us, really. This has spawned quite a few blog post ideas as I want to share my thoughts with you.

First of all, I was reminded by you that this is a creative journey. Not a destination. It is a becoming, which implies movement. I've been so focused on the end result, the paintings I create (and don't create right now), that I was missing the deliciousness of the whole process.

Painting is so new to me that for some reason I didn't realize that it also has a rhythm to it, just like the rest of my life. I've gotten used to most things coming to me in waves, like the high and low tides I see at the ocean.

And when it's low tide, I'm never afraid that the high tide will be forever gone. I know it's coming again. The same, I take it from your experiences, is true for the creative muse.

You've also reminded me that this is bigger than just cranking out paintings. This is my life. I am expressing all of me in this art and, again, the ebb and flow of all of life will be present in my
creative journey.

Now that I 'm writing about it, it seems so obvious. Thank you for pointing it out to me. So, forward I march, simply being me - whether I paint today or not. All of life is art really, isn't it? And how we live it makes us an artist, not just if we can paint on a canvas.
What do you think?

(I took all photos on a beach outing on Tybee Island a few days ago. Click here to see Daniel's finished sketch. It's really beautiful!)