I love to paint!\u00a0 But, today painting felt like pressure to perform.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s hard for me let go and allow my creativity to flow through me instead of trying to force something to happen.\u00a0 In times like this I try not to start on new projects.\u00a0 I learned this the hard way.\u00a0 But what I tend to do NOW is\u00a0 go back and complete\u00a0 something that I started on previously.\u00a0 So that’s what I did today.\u00a0\u00a0 I reworked a painting that I was not completely satisfied with and now it is complete to my total satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love to paint!\u00a0 But, today painting felt like pressure to perform.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s hard for me let go and allow my creativity to flow through me instead of trying to force something to happen.\u00a0 In times like this I try not to start on new projects.\u00a0 I learned this the hard way.\u00a0 But what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[10,616,366,99,614,97,613,603,602,362,102,618,615,359,301,617,326,620,610,113,361,611,195,609,114,363,365,612,619,196,364,608],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-even-monkeys-fall-out-of-trees","tag-abstract-art","tag-abstract-painting","tag-acrylic-painter","tag-acrylic-paintings","tag-african-american-female-abstract-artist","tag-african-american-female-artist","tag-african-american-museum","tag-art-by-marvalisa-coley","tag-art-therapy","tag-artist-block","tag-arts-league-of-michigan","tag-bell-rock-mountain-sedona-arizona","tag-black-female-abstract-painter","tag-cafepress-commarvalisa","tag-charles-h-wright-museum","tag-colorado-springs-hiking-trails","tag-contemporary-abstract-painting","tag-detroit-artists-market","tag-detroit-eastern-market-artisan-village","tag-gilda-snowden","tag-i-love-to-paint","tag-james-spearman","tag-marvalisa-coley","tag-marvalisa-youtube","tag-national-conference-of-artists-michigan-chapter","tag-pressing-forward","tag-pressure-to-perform","tag-raymond-wells","tag-sedona-az-hiking-trails","tag-shirley-woodson","tag-working-through-it","tag-youtube-commarvasart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}