Never finished, just abandoned

"Art is never finished, just abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

I heard this quote recently and it definitely resonates with me. I never truly feel like I finish a piece but sometimes to move on to something else I just have to abandon it for a while. Sometimes I don't find my way back, but there are a few ideas that I can't help but go back to. This is one of them; Psalm 42:1 is what I want, sometimes I fall short but that's what I want for my life. I want my heart to yearn for God.

“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.”
Psalms 42:1 ESV



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Taking it slow but not giving up

I find myself up late yet again bent over my drawing desk searching for that inspiration I let slip away. I'm going slow on this one but I think that's a good thing. I find myself ruining drawings or paintings because I feel this need to finish it. Instead of taking a break, or thinking it through, I push when I should let go.

So after another late night I've got some of it colored. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to wrap up the background. But so far I'm liking what I see.

Missed it by that much

So the other night I was having a conversation with my wife, her aunt and her aunts friend when all of a sudden Wham! I have this great idea for another painting, and not only do I have the idea but I have this vivid image in my mind. I wanted so badly to run to my room and grab a sketchbook so I could try to catch this piece of inspiration before it got away, sadly I'm much too polite for that. So instead I continue conversing with them until they leave, all the while holding onto that image as tight as I can as it slowly slips through my fingers. But alas by the time they left all that I had was a shadow of what I had seen. I ended up staying up till 3am that night. This is what came of that. So moral of the story don't let inspiration slip away.