Bunny Brain

What's Up Buttercup.

I have recently been lovingly told that my art and most of the things I entangle myself with is all over the place. I can honestly say I can see that to, I do tend to hop jump from one thing to the next, often I am asked what I've doing during the day and I really have to think about it. Not because I'm generally busy with one specific thing so it's easy to pin point what I did but I just think so much. I think my art and all the projects I am currently involving myself in are so vitally important and broad but yet in some strange why they all come together.

I have so many paintings waiting for me, I have this blog, the youtube channel and Facebook page, all in which have their own importance and specific needs. I am designing and working on my own T-shirt collection and I want to design and write my own kids story book soon.

Oh and then I read, and I have my graphic design studies I need to finish within the next month or two.

So yes I know its all over the place, you can see it in my art as well, I don't have a specific niche, I think it's because I do a lot of commission work so it's paintings for family and friends. I know finding a niche will be pivotal to my own art. This will send my work from being average and just another artist into what I believe it can be.

But in all honesty that's why I'm doing what I'm doing, I am enjoying being a bunny brain because this is how I will discover my niche. I'm exploring everything that excites me and peeks my interest and in the end my niche will find it's way. My Barbara art will be discovered and I cannot wait. I also think that this is who I am, I enjoy life and where my life is heading at the moment. So I am embracing the bunny and all that it is.

Watch me draw

Watch me draw, just posted this on my Youtube channel. Will be doing more video's like this.

Figures

What's up Buttercup

It's been a rough day today, I did a lot of driving, met some people and now I'm just in bed and getting ready to unwind.

I bought a book, the fundamentals of figure drawing. Reason being that even though I studied art and had done a few nude drawings in the past, I did a drawing just for fun last night and realized I suck.

I had left this part of my muscle  memory unsupervised and now it is a complete mess. Really it's utterly sad.

This was once again a reminder that if you don't use it you lose it. I had in recent months really discovered how much life can carry you away if you're not careful. When I was younger I had it all planned out, was going to work, do graphic design, get married have kids all before 30. I'm 28 and I'm not even close. All my dreams and plans for my art had been placed on hold because I so badly didn't want to disappoint. I wanted to be part of what seemed the natural flow of life.

Only to discover that my art was and had to be so much more then I was allowing. The more I started placing art back into the central part of my being the more caotic I felt and life became. It was like taming a wild beast.
I realised how much I still have to offer my first true love.

That's why this blog is so important because I want to have a platform I can express and share this love.

I hope you will to!
Lotsa love
Barbs