trinafool

I am working on a new painting, and as with all my paintings, I am dissatisfied. I work full time and am the only one who cooks, so generally I don't have a ton of free time to paint, as well as having a couple other projects I want to work on that aren't art related. Then, too, my job is very mentally and physically taxing, so I don't always feel up to working on painting. All this adds up to not enough practice which is totally my fault and something I just need to make the time for. However, I'm becoming more and more frustrated as I try to paint because I lack a lot of knowledge and skill. I watch tutorials, things SEEM easy, then I tr...

So I haven't posted anything in a long time because I haven't really been creating anything. It's been a depressing year between money issues and not having personal space in which to paint. I've spent a lot of time questioning whether I could really be an artist just because I'm not spending every second drawing and painting. But then I do spend all my time thinking about art and how to create it, does that make up for it? It's sort of a snowball effect: life forces me to buckle down and focus on earning a living, meaning I can't focus on painting. When I try to start up again, I'm rusty, leading me to question whether I have any ability ...