
How do you fail to utilize your gift and talents? How do you feel at those moments? Are you unwilling to act? Is it that you are afraid? What is really going on? How can a few simple steps change you? What do you need for that happen?

For years I have failed to utilize my drawing ability. I was born with this talent for a reason, and I used to truly love it. I'm not sure if I ever consciously knew what I was supposed to do with this gift. I do know that it was not laziness that killed my love of drawing and painting.
I started drawing when I was 4 and eventually, all of the doodling paid off when I was accepted into talented art my freshman year in high school. Every year I entered competitions. I so badly wanted to win the top prize which I believed would validate my whole reason for being an artist. I won a ribbon in mostly every competition I entered, but never the top prize. Finally, the last competition of my high school experience, the end of Senior year, I won Best in Show.


5 comments:
I am making some mom's day cards. I have a few listed in my shop now but will be adding more this weekend.
Take a look ;)
thanks so much for sharing this !! i know its sometimes hard to stay in the groove !
www.bethquinndesigns.com
Beth
wow, this is so therapeutic. Sometimes I think that awful "protestant work ethic" from the Puritans is so much a part of our culture that it tends to destroy the creative inner child in us all. I really like that painting with the fortune-telling elements; hope your creativity gets flowing again as you'd like it to.
Hm hmm hmmm
recognising what's holding us back or disappointing us is a good step to getting back our 'creative mojo'
Your work is inspiring and beautiful!
Have a great weekend~
Gabi
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