The Week's Topic is: The Critic
Think this week on who shaped you as an artist good or bad. My mother was very good for me as I was growing up. She always praised my work, she let me have all the crayons, paints watercolors, etc. that I wanted. She didn't worry about me making a huge mess...she did make me clean my messes but she did not prevent me from creating on the chance I'd make one. She showed the patience of a saint! She still has some of my attemps over the years to make good art. So, thank you Mom! My big bad ugle critic is ....me! For the longest time I was terrible to myself. I had this great love and desire to create but I never let myself be free with the creation. This made for one very unhappy person and I shut down a lot of the fun that I had as a child. But the good news is I am getting so much better! I am feeling the love God has for me more and more. I am cleaning house and getting rid of the old lady in my head who judged everything I did negatively! Praise God! It is a new day!
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When I think of my critic it always takes me back to my teenage years. I had a step father who was always telling me, "If I knew as much as I thought I did I would be pretty smart." I know that this has held me back and at times it is what stops me completely. I feel that it is like a revolving door.
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