”Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
So it is a new year begun. As I look over the past year I think about all that went on, mostly just daily life stuff, things that may not seem so exciting- the ordinary family things. Watching some of the children grow into adults. I am thankful that I get to serve this huge family. There is nothing like hanging out with the most important people in my life. I am at a point in my life where the most important thing is just to treat others right and to trust God more completely. Good goals for 2020, right?
Sunrise over the river hills.
One of my art goals this year is to just pick up a brush every day and work on a painting or sketch. I do not always make a conscious decision to do this and I think that it is simple enough goal for me to reach.😊 Also, just to have fun with it. There’s is nothing more disheartening than to try to make everything perfect and not be able to realize that. One of my weaknesses is to compare my art with others. But really what I should be doing is comparing it with my own and asking, “Am I growing as an artist?” Am I portraying those emotions that are deeply veiled within each one of us? That is one of the best things about being an artist is to be able to touch something deep within that each of us feel. Maybe words cannot even describe it. Anyway, just a few of my random thoughts on the new year and art.
One of the landscapes of Lancaster County. For a city girl like me, I never tire of the beauty of the country landscape. It is something I am grateful on a daily basis.
There are three paintings that I was working on New Year’s Eve. One that I pretty much finished. It is the top image of a sunrise. Second is this one above, of a field in Autumn. I had started it a while ago and am now completing it. The third is one that I began last night as a gift for someone, and I will show that one after I have given it to her.
What are your goals? Do you have a bucket list of them? I know that that is how it is with me some years. I would love to hear from you, please leave a comment below! Hope you all have a truly blessed New Year, and that no matter what may come just take one day at a time. Each day is a gift and let us treat it is such.
Love,
Holly
