Here's a little song I wrote
you might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry
Be Happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Dont worry
Be Happy ...
Well, the year 2015 takes its proper time to bring me back to happy painting. After my winter holiday ... well, let's not talk too much about the past. Let me just say I was not in the best condition. Somehow really in a very bad mood and so on. I was truely struggling. Is it over? Well, I do not know but I am working on it. I worry about the important things I can change and be happy about every day. So far so good.
As I was away from the brush for a while it ain't too easy to get back. Sure I can sit down and paint but the painting does not flow and I have to get into it again. I have learned in the past that it is truely helpful to check what is on my table. Let's see, shall we?
I was preparing some miniatures in the end of 2014 with some bases:Meanwhile I see some of them primed, others at a gentle start of colour. First one is another Ilyad Games Miniature for my private collection of this brand - primed at the moment:
A cool model by Kaha Miniatures, just basic work done, but I do not find into the paintjob right now and before I struggle I put him aside for now:
A very cool and interesting sculpt by Origin-Art, sculpted by Pedro Fernandez Ramos. He gave it to me as a gift in Monte San Savino last year and I am working on her to find connection. I know I am too shy right now - gotta go harder and further, but well at least I started.
Last year I took some time to dust off Dschingis Cow, a conversion of Figone's Minotaure and did some paintwork here and there. I'd like to finish him sooner or later, but right now I do not feel the force to do so:
I decided to start with a small comission. I recieved a miniature from a german miniature collector. He bought it - as far as I remember, from a spanish painter, but the model arrived totally broken and one arm was missing or got lost. After the painter did not respond, he asked me if I could restore her.
Well, that's a challenge but I am on it and already put her together. I also got the missing arm in white metal and now I will be up to bring it all together.
Am I sick and tired of painting?
No I do not think so, but yeah sometimes these days. I just need to go down to the studio and sit down there more. Find good music to work with again. Paint. Make. Create. That gives me the most and I am missing it, so I have to follow my inner voice and paint :)
My workspace is really cleaned up these days as everytime I am in the studio I clean it more and more. Maybe it is time to make it dirty again, eh?
And now I am off for the studio ...
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman
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Ich glaube ja das der knack Arsch an der wand, deine ganze Aufmerksamkeit frisst. Aber wenn du schon alles aufgeräumt hast,wird es Zeit wieder alles vollzusauen!
Oder wie ich zu sagen pflege: mach halt mal!
Hallo Roman!
Schade, dass Du momentan nicht so gut drauf bist und der Weg in die Zukunft etwas im Nebel liegt. Aber hey - das ist doch normal. "Don't worry,be happy" - ist nur ein Lied!
Die berühmten Familienkräche und/oder -dramen an Weihnachten, der Streit mit der Frau/Freundin im Urlaub (die nicht selten auch zur Trennung führen) sind in den meisten Fällen das Resultat einer übersteigerten Erwartungshaltung an die Situation, die sich in der Regel nicht erfüllen lässt.
Man kann nicht ständig grenzdebil grinsend auf einer rosa Wolke schweben.
Gönn Dir auch mal miese Laune oder ne Depri-Phase. Was solls? Der Blick für die schönen Dinge kommt wieder und die Richtung wird wieder klarer. Wir leben nun mal nicht in einem Werbespot in dem die ultraweise Wäsche mit Frühlingsduft die ganze Familie zu ständig neuen Emotionsorgasmen peitscht.
Willkommen zurück, wenn Du es willst. Lass Dich nicht vereinnahmen!! Es ist Dein Leben mit all den "worrys" und "happys" die nicht nur auf dem Weg, sondern auch auf den angrenzenden "Grünstreifen" liegen. ....und wenn es mal keine kleinen Püppchen mehr mit Farbe dran sind, die den Fokus bilden - na und - wichtig ist, was gut für Dich ist. Mach was draus!
....und wenn kleine bemalte Männchen dabei rauskommen - prima. Wenn nicht - dann findet sich etwas anderes, was für eine Zeit wichtig in Deinem Leben sein wird.
Viel Glück beim Suchen und Finden!!!!!
Hey Roman - The Muse can be such a fickle lady! Keep following those lyrics and don't worry, she'll be back before you know it! Especially once the amount of daylight increases, the weather starts improving and spring grabs you :)
And take heart in the inspiration you provide to the rest of us in these grey days - thank you!
How sad I am to learn that you are done for the moment... I was indeed reading your article about motivation yesterday and re-thinking to our few words about it during the class in Versailles few days ago and well... this is unfair: You gave me the right push to go back into painting and now I see you are going the other slope of the motivation curve...
I think I have no relevant advice for you considering that you though about yourself and have the wisdom to do what is right for you. I just hoped to make you smile knowing you put people back on track.
My German is quite rusty, but I get this :
Viel Gluck beim Suchen und Finden!
Keep on... et surtout, surtout, ne lache rien (don't give away).
Cheers...
I hope you regain the muse soon. That "cow" is too good not to finish! :)
Thank you for your comments, fellow painters :)
Don't worry, I will never give up finding the sense in life :D