little berry bites

The first post.

I've always considered using the very best tools to be the only way to produce the best product. I've changed my mind on this though, realizing that when you are truly an artist without an income for art, you force your creativity into an area of further discovery requiring patience galore. Discovery is part of art, but I had always assumed that it came as a type of "self-discovery" encompassing more of the pathos, with the logos coming from the great tools..."how could you not see this as valuable! I used the BEST such and such!..." See what I mean? It's like buying the best brand of icecream versus making homemade in my mind. My art has taken on new meaning for me. I have to search and search again for the idea that will cost $0 but only my time, which for an artist is one of the joys and difficulties associated with it. I share my time %100 with my family and my daughter in particular has become my number one "painting friend" as she says. I no longer view my personal art time as a loss but more with hollow meaning and look back on it as only incorporating half of me and half of what life has to offer.

"Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself."

-By James Allen from As a Man Thinketh