On Vacation

I’m on vacation in the scenic Eastport Maine. I visit here at once every year. I didn’t bring any painting supplies with but did bring my sketch book and a book on cartooning. I have been missing drawing lately and wanted to get back to it. I have some ideas for illustrating my capstone paper from my graduate work but mostly just want to draw without an agenda or concept. I’ve been also reading The Challenge of Aging - Ulyssean Paths To Creative Living by John A.B. McLeish hoping it will inspire me or give me confidence about continuing my artistic journey. At this point in my life, I’m considering retiring from being creative. I don’t feel that I have anything else left to say as an artist. Reading the book has given me insight about the creative process but I am not sure If all of the scraps of projects that I’ve left behind are worth salvaging. No, I’m not giving up on the Truck project but am reconsidering taking a break for awhile until something comes along and inspires me to be creative again. Maybe I’ll spend my creative time working on my art website instead of wanting to created new work and not document it. I have to find the other side of me that wants to cleans up the artistic mess that I’ve created in my studio. I also want to continue writing. Since I’m writing this in the Eastport Library, I think I need to find some information on creative block or about the ups and downs of the process of being an artist. Life is a process and even though I don’t know what is around the corner, I continue to walk on my journey. That’s it for now.

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