Becoming / Being an Artist
Sometimes people ask me if I'm an artist and I usually just say that I pretend. I love making art, but I've always felt that if my job wasn't in the arts, then I didn't really deserve to call myself an artist. I guess I just don't really want to disappoint people or want people to judge me once I tell them I'm an artist. For me, declaring you're an artist means that you are good at art. I've decided that even bad artists are still artists, and hey, I could be one of those! I'll just be forever learning. Sometimes I start pieces where the inspiration is huge. I have this grandiose idea of how it's going to come out. And then I get halfway through, and it's looking pretty good by my standards, and then I start to freak out because I think maybe the result won't be able to live up to my own expectations. My five-year-old son drew this picture of a house and I think it's amazing. This prompts me to want to paint my ow...