Welcome back! So great to read that you bullied your numbness away, especially with making art.
I know exactly how you feel when you say you get lost in the process of painting - it's exactly what happens to me. Unfortunately, all too rarely lately, as I have been feeling also a sort of numbness, lack of motivation to create or blog that stems from my work stress. It's a work in progress I guess.
Skillshare - I signed up for it years ago when they were actually still looking for 'teachers' and reached out to me. I even started outlining a class but then stopped. But I haven't stopped my subscription to Skillshare and am using it on and off.
I hope you continue to paint and enjoy its process!
What class are you going to be teaching? Cuz YOU SHOULD!!
And yes, stress does not help me create anything. I found out a lot about myself in the last 4 months that someday I will write about...when it is not so fresh? in my life.
we all have our safe places where we can relax and let go enough to do creative things. WE need that, I at least do, and I was getting angry that once home I could not find my happy place again.
I do not think it is a lack of motivation but knowing you do not have time to slowly create. To enjoy the whole process and the joys that all come with it as you go. 15 minutes here and there, for me, is not enough time to enjoy creating anything....
Then the question is do you spend forever holding off or do you bully your way into doing anything creative?
we all have to find our own answers to that question. I think it changes throughout our lives.
HUGS!
This comment has now been open on a tab for four days - sigh - I, too, need to find a way to make things balance better again. I am way too occupied with work - and I don't like it!
Being that occupied with it, not the work - that I like :)
In painting I've actually done it, this paint/draw/whatever for 10 minutes a day. And that was actually fun to do. But these days I do prefer the longer sessions as you say.
I don't know - it's a work in progress...
HAAAAAAAAAAA!
I have a painting I want to do and should have started over an hour ago and haven't cuz.... time...
so I get it. I really do.
Go paint!
NOW!