Vintage Art

Time to hang this for awhile so that I can decide if it's truly done.  It has a very aged look to it, using a limited palette, Payne's Grey, Quinacridone Azo Gold, and from Nova Color, Fluorescent Purple. Who would think that fluorescent anything could have such a vintage look! (Note: they no longer carry the F Purple but have replaced it with Quinacridone Violet)

Been reading Steven Pressfield's new book Turning Pro. (author of The War of Art)  Just to explain he uses the terms Amateur and Pro to describe life lived outside of doing what you were designed to do and living from the centre of what you were shaped to do, The Pro. Interesting reading, here's a few morsels to chew on...

"When we turn pro, everything becomes simple. Our aim centres on the ordering of our days in such a way that we overcome the fears that have paralyzed us in the past. We now structure our hours not to flee from fear, but to confront it and overcome it."

"When we were amateurs, our life was about drama, about denial, and about distraction. Our days were simultaneously full to the bursting point and achingly, heartbreakingly empty.  But we are not amateurs any more. We are different and everyone in our lives sees it."

and this made me laugh, one line, one chapter,
"The amateur tweets. The pro works."

"Turning pro changes how we spend our time and with whom we spend it...We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind...The essence of epiphanies is the stripping away of self-delusion. There is great power in this moment. Epiphanies hurt."