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| San-Marí van Wyk, Let it Go, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm. The State of the Art Online Art Gallery |
We are in the middle of the year now, can you believe it? The past month I broke away a little from painting realism and went crazy expressionism OUTSIDE on a drop sheet. I felt so much more freedom being able to paint outside - I didn't have to be scared of splattering paint all over my "studio space" in the little room by the front door of the cottage we are renting...
If I get a fan heater I will for sure continue my realism over my expression paintings because it gets flippen insanely cold in that small room at night! I tried, it is very very difficult to focus and paint when you are freezing yourself into an ice cube.
The Sasol New Signature competition is coming up soon and I am torn between should I do the whole realism over expression paintings, or just do my expression paintings... It's a very difficult decision to make, because I believe in my expression paintings and the power they possess, but who knows who the judges will be and if they will 'get' my whole concept and have an appreciation for my type of art. This competition could help shape my career, get my foot a little further in the door. I guess it all depends on how much I believe in myself.
I read that successful people are those who never gave up. So if I try and don't get in, I just have to keep working harder and harder and try again next year. Keep trying until they notice me.
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough"
Don't ever stop dreaming, or give up on your dreams, don't ever stop fighting for your dreams. Even if at first no one else believes in you - as long as you believe in yourself you will show them. You are actually way more awesome than you believe.
In other news, most of the time our paths won't work out the way we planned or go the way we thought it would. But we have to learn how to deal with the curve balls life throws at us. Maybe we end up doing something we never thought we would, but maybe it actually works out pretty awesomely. Maybe we really want something, like right now, but it seems there are a thousand steps still to take and things to check off a to do/ to achieve list before we can finally have it. I am a very impulsive person, it came with my personality, so I can be very impatient and want to have what I decided I want right now, but I need to take all the steps first, one by one, tick them off, grow, learn, achieve what I need to achieve [perhaps things I never thought I would achieve] and I've got to learn to be patient. The road trip to the destination can be awesome fun you know, and besides in the meantime I have awesome time to prepare for the future and what is to come. Am I the only one going through this?
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