Making the Move to July

July...for some the mid-point of the year...For me that is not always true.  The calendar year is not always January to December. I have many calendars, I suppose-there is the 'business calendar', the 'school year calendar', the 'art show calendar', the 'art guild calendar', the 'spring' calendar (also, summer, fall, and winter) and then there is the 'artist's calendar'.
As with so many creative people, MY calendar does not recognize months, days (or even years by this time of my life).  I am motivated by urge...by mood...by request...by suggestion...by weather, temperature and comfort.  You will see my motivation in the work I produce (or do not).  Am I apologetic? Not anymore.  Oh, I used to search for the whys and wherefores of my productivity, but I've outgrown the need to explain. 

Have I become 'of age'? No, I don't think any artist really does that.  I think we never want to reach that point because if we did we would no longer create anything different from what we've done before.  We would stop reading what others say, we would stop looking at what others paint, we would stop considering what might happen if... We would no longer be curious about the world around us or the differences in artistic expression-be it materials or methods.  And really! what sort of creative persons would we be if we were no longer curious?! 

So, if I tell you I've taken a day off or frittered away a month of days you must understand that the mood must have been right for doing so, or the weather wrong for doing otherwise...or one of those other 'artistic' things! 

I hope that you are doing what seems 'right' for you...right this moment and all those future moments that July will bring.

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