Painting when things are crazy

I get this question alot...:how do you find the time to paint?" How do you find the time to get into the studio to finish a painting (that you have no idea what to do next on) when the demands of life seem just too much to handle?  There's the mortgage.  Family and calls from the school counselor.  The car needs new brake pads which were just replaced but the first mechanic got it wrong.  And a persistant cough..added to the mess is an annoying hacking cough that won't give me a break.

So in answer to the initial question, How do I find the time to paint?  The answer is I don't know!.  I just go sit there and my hand starts moving.  What I wonder is why I don't get into the studio sooner..how I can endure postponing my calling for an indefinite time...and when I start to work I feel like a thirsty child, oh man... I never realized how thirsty I was.  Are you thirsty?  If so, go quench your thirst...or go get a paintbrush and move your hand back and forth.

Comments

[tommy s]

so true. getting into the studio is the biggest step. then, yes the thirst to create comes roaring forth.

[michael sean coleman]

currently, i am quenching the thirst by roaming around the southern and midwestern united states on a dime. finding the haunted magik that i knew was there all along. but the money and time will run out, and then i will drink. i will move my hands back and forth. cyn, you go girl.

[lederm]

Thanks for you share it!!!!!!!