AVOIDANCE

Did you ever avoid yourself? I mean like avoid your own gifts, talents, and abilities? As if, maybe of you stepped into them a bomb would go off or something worse like you might keel over?

I would guess that you have! Well, this is because I have seen it. People being afraid of themselves, their own shadow. It stems from "not good enough" even though that story is all made up like Winnie the Pooh.

How else do I know?

Because I have been doing it! Uggha

Yes, I have been dabbling in abstract, never having done it before and frankly, I thought it was those who did not know how to create real art. Silly me, art is art and abstract takes more than one would think as they look at it.

My avoidance?

Avoiding my style, the beautiful art I used to create! Now, do NOT get me wrong. Art s like life and EVERY part of the journey is the journey. In art, there is no wrong or right way. However, when we think for a little bit that we somehow LOST it, that gift we had, we might avoid going there.

Yep, you guessed it! This is what I was doing. Worse yet, I did a few times, compare my art to another. That is a losing game at the paint store door.

MY MOTTO NOW...? 

AVOID NO MORE! STEP INTO IT ALL!

HOORAY!

p.s. I am AVOIDING THIS TREE! It scares me lol Actually I began this and haven't got back there yet!

Artist Bette Shaw

of Artgirl's Daydream Brushworks

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