Build Your Pyramid

I used to feel guilty for not finishing most of my ideas.  Not anymore.   I’ve leaned that having more ideas than I have time to finish is not a weakness, it is a strength.   An artist should be creating a small mountain of unfinished ideas, half-baked attempts & false starts, abandoned projects, screw ups and do-overs.    I created the pyramid doodle to remind myself.  I’m sharing it here in case it may encourage you, too.

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

- Linus Pauling (1901-1994, American Chemist, Bio-Chemist, Nobel Laureate)

From the pile of ideas, we select the best ones to experiment with.

From the pile of experiments, we choose the strongest results to refine.

From those come the small number of works anybody will ever see.

The viewer will never know what it took to produce the work they see,  but I’m confident that they will sense the honesty in it and feel respected.

 

 

To paint better
PAINT MORE.