I am so in love with Graphic Design but this year especially I have found myself longing for part of my past, the Fine Arts. I didn't even notice until 2020 that because of the cost of living life, the lack of time I had, and lack of space, I had let my first and greatest love go, my hobby, my childhood passion. I had stopped doing Art altogether.
It seems nuts to me to be in this spot, knowing I haven't picked up a sketchbook or brush just because, or let the therapy and joy of creating and getting my hands dirty out of my system. It just happened, I wish I could say something different, I let the stress of adulthood and living come before all else.
I am so ready to have it back though... so ready, but in some ways, I know it will be like starting over. Art/Painting/Drawing, it sticks with you, but it is like a muscle, if you don't exercise, it gets weaker and weaker and it is really hard to build it back up. Oddly my hands actually miss the exercise and I am ready to get back on track.
In doing Art lessons this year with the neice and nephews it ignited and reminded me of that creative side, it lit a spark again inside of that 5-year-old girl who wanted to be a Disney Animator, the 5th grader who wanted to be a, well in my words at that time,"Part-time Drawer." ha ha ha ha. The teenager who lived and breathed it all, attending Art Programs and painting every second I could. Sometimes you have to reconnect with that child inside and I am ready.
So as I begin this journey again it will be fun to document it and show the progression. But not as hard as someone who is truly starting out. I still to this day remember everything I learned in classes. I love Art History and techniques I still remember. I even have been developing a series of projects and art classes for doing Art Projects with kids. I just need to get my hands busy again, take time in the day to do so despite working so much.
"When you are creative, you are walking into the dark, you have to get back up for a living since not every day goes well. It's finding solutions to the world. Unused creativity is not benign, it metastasizes."
(Text taken from a blog post I did on my blog about my love of art)
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