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The Artist's Journey

Paintings by Christine Schub

I have many friends who are artists.  For the most part they paint what they see around them....landscapes and flowers and people.  Sometimes I am a little envious because when they want to make a painting they can look at an object or person and take brush to canvas and away they go!  It doesn't work that way for me.  I can sit at my easel and  I can slap paint on a surface until dinnertime and it comes to nothing!  I guess for me that is the backdoor definition of inspiration.  So, when the feeling is right I just know what colors to use and the blobs and lines on the canvas begin taking shape and  and it it is like seeing animals in the clouds.  Then I continue to work adding this and that until I come to a certain point where I am empty and it is "quitting time"....is the painting finished?  No, not usually.  Most of my paintings take weeks or even months to complete and even then I look at them and I often see something else that needs to be added or changed!  And every once in a while I gaze at a painting and I am like Goldilocks.....ah, this one is just right!



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