My takes on all things relating to art.

Here I go.I am old and I am not even sure what a blog is supposed to be but I am going to try my hand here never the less. If you've read my biography, you might think that it should have been a blog. I think I got a bit carried away but I tried to take a really honest look at myself and my art when I wrote that. I believe that I am a person with undiagnosed ADD. I am all over the place and I know it. My mind just reels at the slightest input and I go off on a tangent. On my website I've tried to sort some of this out by galleries. Once I was at my own art show and I overheard someone say " oh look this connects to that one and that one connects to this one" and on it goes. If you look hard enough you will see that. I try really hard to be focused but once I start working, so many ideas flash into my mind that I often loose that focus. Right now I am almost obsessed with design in abstract images in pencil and ink. I am trying really hard to keep my focus.I am hyper focused this time so maybe I can do this after all. Back in my college days I experienced as we all do working from the same subject and doing drawing after drawing based on that subject. I did learn the value of working that way and succeeded. Here I am at age 74 still trying to make myself work that way as a habit. My life has been very full. I have traveled and I'm a mom, I keep up a big house, I'm a wife and I taught school for many years. At times I've left my art and focused elsewhere but I always come back to it. This is a time in my life when I can work in a more concentrated way. I have not given up. I will not give up. I am interested to know if there are any other women artists out there who have experienced anything like my journey. Maybe I'm just making excuses for myself. I hope not. As I said earlier, honesty is important to me and I try to look honestly at my art and myself. Art for me is a never ending quest. I like to search. I like the battle. I like to try different things and different media and combinations. That's my take for today. Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.