So, I've been painting today. Doing my one favorite creative thing, and so I figured I'd do a little writing in my blog to top the day off. Today has been a fairly decent day. Probably because by painting I've kept myself centered. I paint with acrylics on canvas, and in doing so keeps myself centered. I suppose my mind being focused on the painting that I'm working on. I' no Picasso, mind you, but I'm fairly decent considering Ive taught myself. I've been painting on and off for about three to four years. Before that, I centered mostly around pencil and paper. Now, creatively if I'm not writing, I paint. Todays focus was the ocean, an island, and off center of those is a light house. Around the light house, a jumble of boulders and rocks lay. The setting is night, and a full moon shines down behind, to the side of the light house. Technically, I started this painting last night. I worked on it literally--all day, and yet its still not finished. I've also switched off and went back to previous paintings I've done in the past few weeks, and did some touch ups. I'm still not quite satisfied with them, but as it is all I've got is time. They'll be completed soon enough. It's funny, you start out a piece with the goal in mind to finish, but yet as you get farther in the painting, giving it details here and there, you realize that its not about finishing so much as the journey itself. Each detail, strokes just right, you realize it can get better and better. So, no its not about finishing its about watching something wonderful come to life at the hands of your creativity. The past entries have been doom and gloom, and I thought maybe something positive would balance me out some.