I am enjoying your posts, especially your art and thoughts on art. I learned recently about jealousy being an indication of appetite. We really don’t need to spend time shaming ourselves about being jealous. We can simply welcome the information “Oh, you are really interested in working with gold leaf.” or “Wow, I never realized I liked lace up red boots like boxers wear so much.” It is just your appetite growling…paint paint paint. I love the ache you describe so well. I am a full time Mom and artist living with boundary-less quality of my work- when I am making dinner am I more Mom and less artist? I’d love for you to look at my website, just to see some of the work I do and the exhibit I am showing right now. We have a discussion I’d love you to be a part of on April 10- a day long workshop on the Daily-ness of Art and that evening we will watch the movie “Who Does She Think She Is?” about women artists. Maybe you can turn the RV towards Massachusetts? Hope your day is great. I am going to link my site to yours. Sincerely, S

For the record, I have a degree in sculpture and battle with feeling like I’m not a “real” artist. Currently my fight is with calling myself a “writer”. But I write. I write a lot and I love it and I constantly work on a blog and two books. So that makes me… a writer? Tyler coaches me on this a lot, and it’s very tough to get over feeling like a fake.

Oh, and I also do not feel adventurous or hard-core and I am certainly not the “biking around the world type”. But it doesn’t really matter! You suck it up and do it anyway and that is the important part.

Keep it up!

I know exactly what you mean about the art learning curve. I’ve been painting all my life, but only started calling myself and ‘artist’ about 2 years ago. I still sometimes feel like a kid who’s pretending – that I’m not really an artist because of all the things I can’t do. I love doing it though and trying new things. Keep up the great work!