What a relief, six weeks of daily painting completed. It is a great feeling to set a goal and then achieve it. I am going to enjoy that feeling for a moment. Ahhh.
Daily painting has been an amazingly positive experience. It has been an exercise in discipline; it forced me to make making art a priority in my routine. It developed my thinking as a painter; now I see things differently, like in brushstrokes or shades of light and dark. Also, I learned how to paint without the freedom to make and leave a big mess, to share the creative process with people who felt like picking up a paintbrush with me and to tackle subject matter which I had avoided out of fear of failure.
Now I can look forward to painting without the artificial constraints I placed on myself through this project but with all that I gained from my summer of daily painting.
