Not Knowing

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.Rosalia de Castro

This summer, I decided to start a blog for artists. There were several reasons but it boils down to the fact that the site I envisioned did not exist, and I felt it was needed.I came back to making art 5 years ago after a long time away from it. I struggled alone, looking for bits of information online, trying to piece together the knowledge I needed. Eventually, all my searching led me to CVP and everything shifted. Here I found information as well as a community of other artists who were willing to share their knowledge and provide support (something I had not found to be true in ‘real life’).But CVP only runs once a year and it’s a significant investment (a good one, in my opinion, but still, an investment). There are a few other artists who offer online training courses, but very little that is offered free of charge.So, I created This Painting Life and an accompanying Facebook group and I’m now working on creating new content and moderating the group. It’s a lot of work, but it’s work I enjoy. It's rewarding to inspire others, it's enjoyable to be in a community with so many other artists, and it's interesting to conduct research or interview other artists.The interesting thing is that I have no idea where it’s going. Will I eventually offer paid content? Will there be online training courses? Will I write a book? Will it provide me with any income at all? No idea!In this way, it’s like my painting process. Start out based on a hunch and then follow the path to see where it eventually leads.When I shifted my art practice from intentionality to intuition, my paintings improved - my intuition seems to know what to do better than I do.Now I’m testing to see if that is also true in life.