Musings of an unhinged mind.

Hi friends,

To create the art that is yours alone requires that you turn off the outside world and listen. Listen to you.

Perhaps you are about to start work on a landscape....do you have the urge to paint the late afternoon sky pink? Forget about that time in kindergarten when the teacher admonished you for painting grass purple.

Other people's opinion of you and your art does not have to be your reality. It's easy to be swayed by other's words.....the whole science of advertising and influence has gotten very subtle and sophisticated and permeates our culture in almost everything we do. So it's easy to be swayed into an "acceptable" mold of how to do your art.

What you need to ask yourself though, is this the real, unique, one-of-a-kind, original you that you're expressing?

Do the hard part.....listen to you.

"You have the answer.

Just get quiet enough to hear it."

                       ~Pat Obuchowski

Keep Coloring Outside the Lines,

Sandra Haynes

(p.s. To understand how subtle influence is, pick up this book: Influence--The Pyscology of Persuasion. You will be amazed at how hard it can be to think for ourselves.)