Daydream - New Painting

Are you one of those people who easily finds back to their routines? I am not! Whenever something out of the ordinary happens, like our past weekend with friends, it always takes me a few days to get back into my routine.

I admire people who, as soon as things are back to "normal", they get stuff done and go right back to their usual activities. I'm just not that way. I sort of have to always find my bearing again. But I find that in those times, I tend to be quite creative.

So, I have a few paintings in the works and this is one I finished. I tried all kinds of crazy things with the background, but none of it looked right. In the end it wanted to be plain. My sister commented how much this girl looks like me - it's probably because I worked from a photo of me when I a kid. As usual, it only vaguely resembles the photo (actually, not much at all).

I'm linking her to the very fun and inspiring Paint Party Friday. Click here to see much more fabulous art!

Daydream
12 x 12 inch acrylic painting

Available here in my Etsy shop. 

She does, however, remind me of myself when I was a kid. I was such a dreamer. And I was really, really good at it. At some point, society (and school) convinced me that dreaming was bad and action, action, action was the only way to go. I should have kept count of how often the adults in my life told me to "stop dreaming and pay attention."

Now, I'm trying to unlearn that. I have come to the realization that daydreaming is probably one of the most important things we can do. And when those dreams inspire me into action, nothing is better than that! And that's where the good stuff happens...

I hope you are all doing well!! I've started making the blog rounds again and hope to get to all of you in the next few days... It's so much fun catching up on all the great things you've been doing.

In the meantime... happy daydreaming!