Post #283399 by jpmartdog on Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:38 PM

The hardest thing to me is finding myself justifying my paintings to my family and even my friends. Just recently my brother, in so many words said - I don't like the things that you paint, but I've seen that you can paint. Or even worse... my elderly mother and older sisters will say - why don't you paint something "pretty" - then people would buy it. Oh well - as you said - "they just don't get it". I do it for me, I collect the mugs for me, it makes me happy and thoughts of vintage Polynesia, restaurants and cocktails in tiki mugs make me happy. I surround myself with things that make me happy. One thing I know for sure... the others in my life have a hard time letting go of the stress of the daily grind, even if it is for a moment. It only takes a glance around my space for me to go on vacation, and that makes me happy!

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[ Edited by: jpmartdog 2007-02-05 19:39 ]