I Remember Your Small Room
12×12 acrylic mixed media portrait painting on canvas
Was $300
Now $180
Shh! Don’t tell my husband..he loves this painting, and would kill me if he knew I marked it down. 🙂

The 40% off portraits sale continues in my Etsy shop. I can’t remember the exact date I set as a cutoff, but I can tell you, the sale will be ending soon. I don’t know when I’ll be featuring a sale like this again, so this is basically your last chance to get a great deal while you still can. 

© Katie Jeanne Wood
Art journal page
daily painting: 365 day art project
Day 316
Empowerment
Prints are available here

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Pele

Make no mistake, being an artist takes great sacrifice. There always is, and always will be, something standing in the way between me, and my studio. There are a million other things to do, and a trillion excuses I make daily to try to weasel out of putting in the hard work.

“I don’t feel like painting” being at the top of my list most every day. If I told you that 9.9 times out of 10, I never feel like painting, would you be surprised? I paint anyway because I refuse to let how I feel physically or emotionally stand in the way of what I know I need to accomplish each day. If I did, I’d probably never get out of bed in the morning. 

Oh, you’re tired?
Not in the mood?
You don’t feel well?
There, there.
Poor baby.
Now, go paint!! 

The voice in my head isn’t always kind to me. What can I say? It knows me well, and doesn’t fall for my BS excuses. It knows how to get me up off the couch, and painting.

Looking back on the past 316 days, some haven’t been easy. The resistance to paint daily has been strongly felt, and I’ve wanted to quit too often to count. Underneath it all, I’m tenacious (INTJ to the core, what can I say?), and when I commit to do something, I follow through to the end.

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
– Mary Anne Radmacher

I know the disappointment of letting myself down, letting other people down (not that anyone cares if I paint daily or finish this 365 day project, but still..I pretend, and tell myself they do), and feeling like a failure/loser will be far worse than feeling a little too tired, sick or moody to paint at the moment.  

Are you making the right choice today, and every day? If you really want to do something in life, no matter what it is, let nothing stand in your way.