An Art Full Life

I have had my Facebook profile open most of the day...just perusing around, checking out unknowns and the known-very-well.  It has just occurred to me that the time that I used to put into this blog, now that time and attention has been redirected to social sites among the likes of Facebook.  And my activity on FB is mostly reading and glancing at posts and profiles, pictures and videos, whereas on here, I was composing and writing and posting. 

These differences got me to thinking about how I create art.  How much I love creating art.  And how much I have not been living that love of my life.  Not to say that I havent been creative and painting.  On the contrary, I have been more artistic lately than I have been in a long time.

But like I feel about the time I have been putting into this blog, the time I have been giving to my art is not enough, nowhere near enough.  I am craving more ways to express myself.  And this is a pretty good way right here, one that I am not using fully.
In other areas of my life, because of decisions I have made, I have had to shut down...which breeds within me a very overpowering desire to do the opposite in any other form I can imagine.  And that means I want to paint the world and tell everyone about it. 

Maybe this is where FB comes back in.  Having just posted about my weekend accomplishments, FB provides a way for me to unleash to the world those things that are not hidden about me, but just are not known by everyone or enough people.

Only the people that live in my house know that I cut the grass in that huge backyard on the riding lawnmower for the first time and that I did a damn good job the other day.  But that wasnt enough!  For me? I wanted the world to know what I had been up to.

So, you see, there is a place for my blog, FB and my art.  And Twitter if I ever start using that again.  Of course, when I am finished with a painting, I will post about it here and also on my art blog and also on FB, so how can I lose?  All that I can lose is time spent spreading the news of the joys I experience while creating art.  I do not see a bad trade-off there.
By the way, posted on FB about seeing the movie pictured above (Snow White & the Huntsman) over the weekend.  And now I am posting about that very fact on here as well.  Excellent movie!  It's good to be back on here!