house finch bird

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I tend to hyper-focus on things. I become obsessed and fixated, spending every waking moment giving whatever obsession I have atm my undivided attention. And then poof..out of the blue, for no reason, I get bored and move on to the next thing, and the cycle starts all over again. 

nerdy body portrait painting
wip

I was overly obsessed with my art journals, and painting portraits all summer. I realized this a few weeks ago. It made me start to feel bad about neglecting my other ongoing series – abstracts, florals and birds.

floral paintings 
wip

I love painting emotion, so I won’t be moving on from portraits any time soon. Instead I’m now trying to give equal time to all my different projects and painting series. To hold myself accountable, I’m going to be posting at least one photo of something I’m working on besides portraits here on my blog each week.

I’ve been successful for a couple weeks now, and I’ve never felt so balanced, and off balance at the same time. It’s hard to me to mix things up sometimes, especially when I feel pulled in another direction, and portraits are still calling my name loudly. I’m coming around though, and I think this is helping me slightly with boreout, so I must continue doing it for my own good. 

Before I read about it I had no idea boreout was even a word, let alone that I’m suffering from it, but I definitely have an acute case of it. I decided quite a while ago to not worry about it tho..does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? 

I hope you’re well.