Inspired…. That is what I’ve been, inspired!  It is now 12:19 a.m. and I have been trying to go to sleep for over an hour now and finally gave up the fight.  It is because of this new found inspiration that I cannot sleep.  Until today I did not even know what a “blog” was and am still not sure that I do now, but I have decided to start one.  But this will be no ordinary blog this simply will be my accountability partner.  I have decided to set a goal for this new year , however, the new year timing was simply a coincidence, so I will not call this a resolution so that I hopefully will not jinx this. 

In the past 11 years of being an artist and many before that if you count the constant doodling on everything in sight, I have found that the hardest thing to achieve is inspiration.  There has always been a pressure to produce something for someone else that someone else might enjoy.  Whether that be a painting for someone to buy or even a gift that I’d painted for someone.  It has been very hard for me to just paint something simply because I wanted to, it seemed like I would be wasting time better spent on something else (i.e. house chores, making money, visiting friends or family, etc…)  But today I decided that I still have my full time job of producing art for others through my mural painting so why not produce some for myself to simply enjoy the process of painting. 

So I am challenging myself to producing a new painting every 2 weeks for the next year,  that will be approximately 24 paintings.  The rules are these: paint only what I want to – things I think are beautiful, inspiring, touching, whimsical, etc… The results may not be pretty, I certainly hope they are but that is not the point of this challenge.  Every 2 weeks I will post a picture of my most recent project so that I am not allowed to be lazy and slack off anytime throughout this project, so please, help to hold me to this!