sarahfox

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Thanks so much Rosie! You need a blue canvas award for the most welcoming and encouraging BlueCanvaser!!

:)) This is my great pleasure Sarah XXX

Your photography is lovely :)

Nice to meet you too! Your paintings are absolutely beautiful!! I'd love to hear your thoughts on starting a new piece of art.

Thank you Sarah! That's a big topic - if you'll forgive some impersonal text, I have lengthy explanations for two of the main bodies of work I'm painting right now here:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-maidman/partial-painting-series_b_1567805.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-maidman/blue-leah_b_1428383.html?ref=arts

Thank you for posting those articles! Really interesting reads, both of them. I really love the blue Leah series. It's also great to think about a some paintings in a series. I wonder if this would help the cycle of artist block I seem to find myself in whenever I finish a piece.

I'm glad you enjoyed them! Working in series does reduce the frequency of what-next panic, but it took me a few years of considering the concept of a series to figure out anything I liked enough to do more than once. Good luck with it if you try it out!

I like the idea of trying to quickly, and carelessly make a few images after a great one. It would almost serve to loosen you up and get brainstorming. Thank you for responding! :)

Thanks for responding Rose! I feel like your viewpoint on it and it is interesting to hear about "the blank canvas" syndrome from a photographer's perspective. I like the idea of nothing being a failure, just something that needs more time. I think with me, I have trouble starting a new painting following a really successful one. I still sometimes feel like those really great ones are still just flukes or something, and I won't be able to do anything that good again.

Totally relate to the Fluke Factor! haha... and surprised it is the same for a painter!

oh... after a success, the trouble comes...??.. the self-doubts... they are such an interest of mine, and I decided not to listen to my own that much , though i am still practising not listening... i realised everyone i like suffers self-doubt, so maybe it is an ok thing to have too ;) xxx

ha ha ha, I know we are the nice ones I guess. Maybe the key is to have the self-doubts, then just keep plugging along in spite of them. :)

Thank you :) I'm a drawer by heart too...so most of my paintings are drawings with really thin layers of acrylic over them.

Thank you so much! I met that sea turtle snorkeling :)

Let me guess,,,you were snorkeling in the Gulf?

It was in Hawaii on my honeymoon! He was a very cool old turtle :)

Thank you very much! I'm digging the blue canvas so far :)

Thank you! :)

for the stars too :)

Thank you :)

Thank you, the Blue Lounge is very fun, so much great work!