tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post8865903611530754440..comments2023-09-25T06:17:27.500-04:00Comments on the accidental artist: Snowstorm!carrie jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post-8218224279008995722010-02-15T17:34:50.105-05:002010-02-15T17:34:50.105-05:00Hi Jill - Your thoughts and observations on my pai...Hi Jill - Your thoughts and observations on my painting are very cogent and heartening. I am working hard at it - and loving every damn minute of it, too - and am, from time to time, making paintings that only I could make. That's a real standard for me these days, I think. If they are indelibly my paintings, recognizable for whatever reasons, then I have succeeded.<br /><br />I think I know what you mean about rejecting "success." I mean, I am striving for success - well, no. I have success. I am striving for financial success, a far different thing. I had success in newspapers - or more broadly, I had success in a corporate setting, where success, by and large, was determined by the overseers, and handed out in raises, evaluations, the occasional "good job."<br /><br />There is no job that can give me what I am taking now from life, or finding in life, or creating in life. None. I never dreamed that I could live in this way. Yes, I moan and complain - and then I feel like slapping myself. OK, so no one is buying my paintings. I say "no one" - in fact, people ARE buying my paintings, just not in the numbers that I had hoped. The fact is that I made the mortgage five times in 2009, just from my painting. That is a miracle. And a lot of hard work.carrie jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post-79319071471764712902010-02-15T07:19:49.818-05:002010-02-15T07:19:49.818-05:00Thanks for the note, Denise, and also for the info...Thanks for the note, Denise, and also for the information. It is so comforting to know that these feelings are not unique - especially the darker ones.carrie jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post-84519256773597720262010-02-14T16:24:50.718-05:002010-02-14T16:24:50.718-05:00Love this. Love abstracts. By the way, feeling los...Love this. Love abstracts. By the way, feeling lost in unchartered waters and kind of like 'where is this going' midway through painting abstracts seems to be common. I experience it and heard another abstract artist say the same thing.Denise Aumickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07965875626366498278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post-55430050693205454982010-02-13T08:02:05.588-05:002010-02-13T08:02:05.588-05:00Thanks, Sheila! About halfway through I thought I ...Thanks, Sheila! About halfway through I thought I should stop, but why bother? At worst, I'd waste a canvas - and instead, I got a cool painting - xocarrie jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848088465428671336.post-48073407895159194852010-02-11T12:17:43.750-05:002010-02-11T12:17:43.750-05:00This is GREAT! I can see the fiendish and devilis...This is GREAT! I can see the fiendish and devilish strokes in there! I agree this needs to be on a bigger scale. Go do it Girl!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05599714103955686190noreply@blogger.com