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I don't make new year's resolutions (so what are you doing on this thread, then?) - the pressure to keep them just unsettles me and makes me permanently crabby: I know this is impossible to conceive. It's said the Vatican doesn't think in years, but in centuries.... well, I think in decades: if I had to re-order my priorities every year, I should go madder. <div>
</div><div>What's interested me about the poll, though, is how few people say they want to take a course, or painting holiday.... Which is rather what I should like to see on a forum like this: painters should spend more time painting, because you learn more by doing than you'll discover in most art courses, however good they may be. A bit of inspiration now and then, a glimpse at how others approach a common enterprise - a nice read of an e-book, perhaps: not a hint, really it isn't - is probably the way to go if you're after a style of your own, rather than hoping to emulate someone else's. </div><div>
</div><div>Well, that's what I think: mind you, this could be at least partly because I'm too mean to go on art holidays or painting courses.</div>
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Have done several Art Safari hols with Mary Anne Bartlett who is now a good friend. i consider myself very lucky to have done them. Zambia, Malawi , Namibia and Kenya. all of them were just magic. Sadly cannot aford them these days. But if you can they really are amazing Just "DO " it .
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sadly ,I could afford these Africam holidays but it would be the equivalent of climbing
Mount Everest in my slippers. I would need to be accompanied by a doctor and a
stretcher party the spirit is willing but the effort would be severely life threatening. any way I'd rather go to somewhere I ain't been ,like Rome but that too,would deadify me.
Deep gloom........Syd
PS I have no more territorial demands as Adolf the Hun said,,,, Syd ;-)
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Er... this year, I quit my job on the first day back after new year. I'm working my notice period, so I'm not free yet... but I figure that makes me a full time artist. As well as full time mother. But I insist that I am only a part time housewife.
I intend to try and make something approaching a profit from the art.
