Is there anything left of our new year‘s resolutions now that January is over?
I finished this acrylic painting as well as the one below in January 2017, a few days ago; in a time where most of us look at the year we left behind and also look forward to new projects.
The “Let me get the bird part right” painting above, is a bit of me laughing at myself, at this human tendency to tackle things that are not so important instead of directing our efforts to the actual task at hand. Have you found yourself doing so?
I surely have. I started making daily drawings in Instagram in August 2016, but I didn’t touch the app until after I made a mini course about it, read interviews, spoke to some people about it, read a manual… ***laugh*** That’s me, afraid of social media. But you see, I didn’t even touch Instagram that whole year until I had done everything else.
In my country you say: You have to take the bull by the horns. I try to remember that when I want to tackle what’s essential.
With “Punch it out” I ask myself:
“To inform myself and find understanding or to react in blind fear?”
This is something we’re seeing so often nowadays in the world, fighting violence with violence and hate with hate. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said:
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