Paint-a-holic

  When painting is brought up, my mind instantly wanders to that semi-catatonic state of feeling that painting feeling, right in that moment. It's a combination of the preparation (and anticipation) that goes into the next painting, as much as it is self medicating with my life's blood.
   It's sort of like an addiction, only worse; This one, you cannot let go or quit. The good thing about it is, for one, it is legal, LOL. The other good thing is that you don't have to do it to feel it!
  Painting is something that many, many artists try, at least once. While many of them move on to other media, few of us hang in there and find that it is, in fact, our grounding and has permanency.
  In my painting, it has survived many trials and tribulations, but no matter how long it is between paintings and explorations, I always come back to it.
  There is an acrylic that I'm working on, right now, even though I haven't touched it since last Summer. I can talk to you all day long about how the rules say you have to paint every day and do so many paintings per day to be a real artist. BAH! To be a real artist, you just have to have it in your blood, that your heart would stop pounding without it. There truly aren't any rules and I dare you to scoff in the faces of those that tell you there are.
   Start with guidelines to help educate your fixation, learn and grow into your own artistic self, then set your own reality in this amazing realm. Go ahead, just do art. Just do what it is you do.
Love outward.