art every day…4/30
“looking”
© 2007 kelly angard

I recently realized that June 1st will mark two years of blogging…two years! When I started my blog, I didn’t know anyone else who had one, nor did I have a “plan” for my blog; I did what I usually do…I just jumped in and started swimming! Since I was feeling nostalgic, I read over some of my earliest entries and felt like I was looking back in a old journal; amused at what I decided to post and surprised at some of my early insights. I thought this entry was worth re-posting because no matter how long we’ve been creating art (or blogging for that matter!), it’s easy to take what we do for granted. Maybe now is a good time to take a break…and give yourself a bit of extra credit!

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you do?
Creating art requires us to think outside the box, whether it’s about the objects or elements we select, how we use our supplies, or the way we assemble it. It requires us to creatively combine unrelated thoughts and materials with nothing but a vision of what we think we’re going to create or believe we can create. It takes a leap of faith.

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you create?
I’m not talking about how good of an artist you are, I’m talking about the fact that you sit down and face the blank canvas, paper, etc.! Creating anything takes courage; it takes belief in yourself to know something, even if you feel that you don’t know enough. I think it says a lot about the human spirit of each and every person…despite the unknown, we know we must move forward, no matter the fear or anxiety, we must create art…and so we take a leap of faith.

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you know?
We show our humility and our sense of humanity when we put our art out to be seen and make ourselves vulnerable to others’ opinions and criticism. We are at our most fragile when we display what has come from inside our hearts and minds, and we show our belief in humanity when we do; believing most will be honest but not brutal. It takes courage to be able to hear what someone has to say and not have it reflect how we feel about ourselves. We must believe in ourselves enough to know what we know, and we must believe in ourselves enough to take that leap…

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Now it’s time to give yourself credit for all that trivial knowledge you learned in 5th Grade!!!
Here are the answers to “Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader” quiz I posted last Monday…
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. meter
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. 36
10. inside
11. Katmandu
12. B
13. A
14. 1,000
15. true
16. C
17. B
18. C
19. 150 degrees
20. A

(i missed five…#4, #11, #13, #14, #20)

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