Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ~Salvador Dali
recently i took up drawing. i have this ongoing thing about nurturing my creative side, something i feel i never really paid attention to or even acknowledged. in high school i never took art and what i remember from grade school art seems to involve a lot of pasting of construction paper. high school was very much focussed on simply getting out of high school.
what i'm finding is that i can be incredibly concentrated while drawing. time goes by very quickly. i like the feeling of being very focussed. the problem is i get very frustrated. i can see that my drawings aren't very good. and i just happen to be a perfectionist who doesn't like not being able to do things perfectly the first time around. i want to see results - and fast.
when i worked as an au pair, i taught the little girl i looked after how to tie her shoes. she was immensely frustrated by it and i used to calm her down by telling her we would practice a bit everyday and then one day she'd just be able to do it. and one day she was. several weeks later i saw her outside swinging on her swing by herself. something she had had trouble with before. i made a comment about it and she told me that she practiced a little bit everyday and then one day she was just able to do it.
why are these lessons so hard to apply to one's self? i look at the drawings i've been doing and guess what? they are getting better. so kristin? RELAX. of course if anyone else says that to me i may rip their heads off.
unrelated - it's snowing here. a lot.
what i'm finding is that i can be incredibly concentrated while drawing. time goes by very quickly. i like the feeling of being very focussed. the problem is i get very frustrated. i can see that my drawings aren't very good. and i just happen to be a perfectionist who doesn't like not being able to do things perfectly the first time around. i want to see results - and fast.
when i worked as an au pair, i taught the little girl i looked after how to tie her shoes. she was immensely frustrated by it and i used to calm her down by telling her we would practice a bit everyday and then one day she'd just be able to do it. and one day she was. several weeks later i saw her outside swinging on her swing by herself. something she had had trouble with before. i made a comment about it and she told me that she practiced a little bit everyday and then one day she was just able to do it.
why are these lessons so hard to apply to one's self? i look at the drawings i've been doing and guess what? they are getting better. so kristin? RELAX. of course if anyone else says that to me i may rip their heads off.
unrelated - it's snowing here. a lot.
posted by kristin at 11/02/2006 01:33:00 p.m.
3 Comments:
I really want to do more to nurture both my creativity and my memory.
I have this horrible sinking feeling that both are fading away on me.
Drawing I gave up on years ago; I plateaued sometime during high school at a level that was still not decent enough to show anybody. :)
Way to go Kristin! We do so little as adults to master new things. In the past five years, I can think of two significant things I've pushed myself to learn. Driving standard, and singing and clapping (drumming) at the same time.
snowing!!!!???? draw the snowflakes! an infinite number of intricate shapes. I bet you're doing fine, show me your stuff sometime.
xxxTom Scribble
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