{"id":1147,"date":"2015-01-30T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2015-01-30T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:02:48","slug":"on-painting-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"On painting daily&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I paint or draw everyday, as I would drink coffee when I wake up. There are few days I miss, and when I do &#8211; I am contemplating color, form, shape, and my work ethic. I do this religiously, and find hope and &#8216;God&#8217; (for lack of a better term) when I create. Good or bad, it doesn&#8217;t matter. There are times when I paint and hate it &#8211; hate the color I choose &#8211; feel I am not thinking, too heavy headed or achy &#8211; not centered. I still trod on, like the lion &#8211; toward the unknown food source. I need to eat even when I am sick. I need to paint or draw even when I don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>For me it is not an issue. This is my life and how I manage to balance it. If I do not drink my coffee &#8211; I am off. If I do not paint, I am off. I know the outcome, and see it clear &#8211; but fall short of the mark every time I try. Each day I get up and try again. I do not let my lack of sight deter me &#8211; and I continually love my muse, if not myself.<\/p>\n<p>The balance of being a full time artist is determined by how much energy I put on spirit, earth and craft. I love what I do but do not always love to do it. I am lazy at times and find myself longing for smaller goals, tiny pursuits &#8211; video game mentality. This helps temper the lofty idealism that taints my productivity. When I look at Zorn or Levitan or Rembrandt, I feel I can do that too. Why? Because I am trying. I am failing and then I succeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-31-at-8.15.15-PM.png\" rel=\"lightbox[1147]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-1148 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-31-at-8.15.15-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-31 at 8.15.15 PM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I paint or draw everyday, as I would drink coffee when I wake up. There are few days I miss, and when I do &#8211; I am contemplating color, form, shape, and my work ethic. I do this religiously, and find hope and &#8216;God&#8217; (for lack of a better term) when I create. Good or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}