It has to start somewhere

Here it is, my first actual blog. Hopefully my ramblings will be interesting to some of you and give pause to others to perhaps see things a little differently than you're accustomed to. 

Life as an artist can, as any artist will tell you, be both amazingly satisfying and crushingly frustrating. It's almost an allegory for life itself, isn't it. Who hasn't had periods of prolonged happiness (prolonged and be anything from an hour to weeks or months at a time) and then experienced loss or disappointment. The creative process is much like that. When you have an idea that is clear in your mind and you get it on paper, or canvas or the computer screen, all is well. But, when that same idea refuses to translate to the medium of choice and nothing you do comes to fruition life itself seems dark and hopeless.  

Yeah, I just reread that. A little too severe maybe, but that's the creative mindset. We tend to go to extremes pretty fast. 

So, now I have a forum in which to share success and frustrations, the light places, the grey places and the dark places. I may not always speak directly about art or the creative process but both will be in the background of these posts.