From art for fun to art as a career

What do you do when you feel you need to take a step back and see how you can improve your project/plan/process/life or what needs to change in order to get the desired result?

What is your outlet of creativity? Where do you get your inspiration? Where do your ideas stem from?

What do you try to do differently in order to get closer to your goal? What motivates you to keep going when you feel down and see yourself stuck?

Do you take a day off to clear your mind? Do spend that day doing something totally unrelated to your project? Or you push yourself even harder, choosing to go out of your comfort zone by performing some new challenging tasks or activities?

Whenever I hit rock bottom or when I feel lost for one reason or another, I write or I paint. The ink, graphite and the acrylics have been my guiding tools, enabling me to assess my situation and reconnect with myself, achieve the inner balance.

Lately I dove into a full-time art career and to my surprise, I enjoyed working even on the weekends. It actually did not even feel like work! As far as I know, my day started at 8am with a canvas and some paint and ended late in the night. The hours flew by without me realizing it.
Thus I found myself absorbed into my work for long stretches of time, just like before becoming a Lymie.

Having gained my motivation to create daily helped me cope with my symptoms and it also increased my artworks inventory.

Although I experimented with abstract, conceptual and figurative, I couldn't make up my mind which one I liked more. All have their pros and cons. Actually more pros than cons.

The image above is in fact one of my latest acrylic abstract paintings, Colour Splash.
Yes, I know, not a very creative title for it. It's pretty straightforward. :0)

Is this something you'd hang on your wall?

Drop me line in the comments section below if you like it or any part of my rambling here made any sense to you.

Have a great day/ evening, wherever you are!

If you would like to see more artworks from this series or other ones, or support my art, please visit my website lavipicu.com or check my Facebook account: Lavi Picu Art.

Here are some other art related posts that you may enjoy reading:
JAZZ SERIES
DROWNING FROM WITHIN
ALL LIFE MATTERS
EQUILIBRIUM
SERENADE - MAKING OF
WHAT MAKES ONE AN ARTIST?
RAW MINDFULNESS
CORONA CHAOS
LOST BOY, MAKING OF
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF DOODLING
JAMAICAN MAZE
THE WORLD IS MINE - MAKING OF
DRAGON STEPS, MAKING OF
THE POND - MAKING OF
FLUID ART
BLAZE - MAKING OF
VANITAS SERIES
LET YOUR INNER CHILD IGNITE YOUR CREATIVITY
UNDER THE BLUE -MAKING OF
DRAGON - MAKING OF
ART THERAPY, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
FUN WITH ACRYLICS
MAGICAL UNICORN- MAKING OF
MUSHROOM TABLE- DIY
OTHER PAINTINGS
WHAT SPARKS YOUR CREATIVITY?

If You Are Interested In Purchasing Any Of My Works,
check out my Saatchi online art gallery page HERE
or visit my website: lavipicu.com.

Lavi Picu is the author of four soulful poetry collections: Whiteless Thoughts, Burden of love, Tales of a moody heart, Lyrics for sale. She is a Canadian writer, majored in Linguistics, with a background in translations and writing. She’s also a ghost writer, a blogger with a focus on arts and health, a Lyme disease advocate, a mother and a self-taught artist.

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