Making Art is Always Worth it

It had really been too long since I’d picked up a brush, and put it to paper. Unforgivably long? Maybe.

For whatever reason I found motivation to try again.

I’m glad I did.

I mean, I purchased this awesome Windsor Newton travel watercolor set for a reason. Right?

So I set up my temporary workshop on the kitchen table and went to town.

My goal with these pieces was to just get back into moving a brush across paper. I wasn’t really trying to say anything deep. I was just trying to do something to reaffirm my existence as an artist.

I’m not just a traveller; I’m a creator, and that aspect of myself had been neglected until recently.

Painting these scenes, was the equivalent of writing an apology to my inner Georgia O’Keefe, and let me tell you Georgie pie was NOT HAPPY.

Until she saw how great they were turning out!

 

Ah yes, I lost track of time layering reds and oranges to create the dusty rust colored roads of the Australian Outback. It was cathartic; shoot, it was practically medicinal.

I ended up pretty pleased with the result. Making art is always worth it.

Ange