big girl license

I love fall.  I love the crisp weather, and all the pumpkin-ness. I’m inspired.

I haven’t painted in a long time.  I’ve come to terms with that.  For the last several months, I was caught up in a whirlwind of “the ideal.”  I wanted a perfect house, a perfect stockpile, the perfect relationship, the perfect conditions for painting. And all this want for perfection drove me into a stagnant state.  My mind was spinning wheels on how to create this perfect beautiful lifestyle, and I wasn’t acting.

Instead of setting unrealistic goals for myself, I’m keeping it simple.  I’m focusing on the things that matter.  All of this new-found clarity came from getting cut back hours at my day job… I now work  3 days a week  (which is scary!)   The scarcity is inspiring.  I now have 4 days a week to fill with things I love and tackle my biggest, fattest juiciest goals along with the trivial activities on my to-do list.  I wrote down goals for the week, so I wouldn’t drift into the fog of “should-do-but-I’d-rather.”  And one of my goals for the week was to paint for five one-hour sessions.  Today, I tackled one session and it felt amazing.  (There are also more mundane goals like “clean downstairs bathroom”-which I hadn’t cleaned in months, and it’s now checked off .YAY!) Bottom line: I have more time to grow as an artist and I am fortunate.

And as for the title of the post… since I turned 24, I finally got my horizontal license.  I’m in the big boys and girls club now.

jamie boyer

alice

2010

acrylic on canvas

12 x 12 inches

$175

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