Spending time learning that beautifully painful lesson - that creating art is not just feelings of passion and inspiration over and over again, but actual work. (Much like real love.)

That to really be successful requires doing the work day in and day out, even when you don’t feel like it. The artist is so romanticized in culture, that even the artist herself forgets the endurance that is the required. The mental fortitude, the willpower to push on, even thought everyone and everything in your life is telling you no. The magic happens when we defy the odds and defeat our doubtful self.

This piece is a work in progress for my gallery show in June. I always think preparing for a show is going to be this beautiful romantic bed of roses. It’s actually an arduous labor of love, long days and nights overcoming that doubtful voice in my head.

Cheers to many more victories and creations

x 🕊️💗👑