More than Mild: The Decision to Be an Artist and Move On

There are days when you have to approach fear at the edges, especially when you’re just beginning. The thought of waking the giant that is your dream, especially if you’ve left him to slumber for months or years or decades, can leave you quaking in your boots.

What if the giant smashes you? What if he eats you for lunch?

And so you tiptoe. Just a little doodle here. Just a dab of paint right there. Nothing too big, nothing too loud, nothing that will grab attention.

That was me three years, three months, three days ago.

That was what this blog was.

Go back. Read through it. You’ll see me dabbling and doodling and dawdling. You’ll see me tiptoeing around the giant.

It’s okay to start there. That’s been a central theme here. It’s okay to start small. It’s even okay to stay small. It’s better than doing nothing.

But keep doing little things and one day you may wake up and realize you long for more.

Keep thinking small thoughts and one day you may be bowled over by a bigger one.

Keep being mildly creative and one day you may have a wild idea, like the one that you could be an artist, that you should be an artist, that you must be an artist, and that you’re ready to jump on the giant’s chest.

And that is what’s happened to me.

I have decided to be an artist, that I already am an artist, and that I want to devote my life to becoming a better one.

Being mildly creative, as I said, is a great way to begin. It’s also a great way to begin again when you lose your way for a time.

But being an artist takes more than being mild.

Some days it takes being relaxed. Some days it takes being alert.

Some days it takes being playful. Some days it takes being severely serious.

What it takes, I have learned, is being whatever you need to be on any given day at any given time in order to do what you must.

And I feel that I must move on.

For that reason, this is the last post I will ever write for this blog. I’m starting a new adventure, the adventure of being an artist.

You can find me at my new domain, KenRobert.com, a place where I can be whatever I need to be on any given day at any given moment in order to do what I must.

I hope you’ll join me there. If you’re a subscriber to the blogcast, you will continue to receive updates, but they’ll be coming to you from my new home.

If you’re a subscriber to this RSS feed, I’m sorry. You’ll have to subscribe to the new one if you care to receive updates of what I’m up to. You can do so by clicking here.

My hopes for KenRobert.com are that it will be far more useful and museful for fellow artists, mild or otherwise. I know it will be for me.

For those of you who’ve been coming here and visiting over the past few years, I’d simply like to say the following.

Thank you. Hope to see you again soon.

P.S. If you didn’t watch the video at the top of the post, you might want to scroll up and do so, or you can simply click this link.