A new phase...

A new phase...

I feel like a change. (Blame Bob Ross...)

Just that. I feel like a change. A new phase, as the title goes. I had a few months there with a creative block. It doesn't help that I work nightshift so that messes up things right there, sleeping patterns, mental health, etc. I thank Bob Ross for this. This is the second time he's pulled me out of the quicksand, so to speak. I drew when I was a kid but, like most kids got caught up in other things so it got dropped . Then a few years back I caught Bob Ross on the TV. Just sitting watching the afro-haired dude spread some paint on a canvas somehow reawakened the long dormant art streak. For a while I pottered about and did my sketches and dabbed out a few watercolours. And that worked for a while. I started to put up a picture or two up on Blue Sky. They got a few likes. For fun I put the same picture through a filter or six and was fascinated with the results. Looks like not all AI's bad. I was happy with that. And then I hit that damn creative mist again. For a few months, both writing and drawing. Nothing. Nada. Not a thing. Not even Bob Ross ASMR videos got me out of it. But it did get me trying out palette knife painting with acrylics. The mist seemed to go. Or that have been the disciplinary I got. But that's another little tale...

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Hi Edward. I enjoyed your blog. I have a friend who started painting for the first time due to Bob Ross. After two years she's producing some very nice pictures. I have helped her a bit with perspective and where the horizon should be, but she's a huge fan of the guy. I think he's given confidence to lots of people to start painting. I would like to say there have been tines in my life when I've hardly picked up a pencil due to that mist you talk of. Also as a person in my mid 70s looking back on when u was working. The art comes and goes. I feel it's part of the process. Also working nights can't be easy when trying to create. But I enjoyed your honesty in your blog.