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Blog posts by Eric Cobb.
Thanksgiving? Thanks for Nothing!
‘Tis the season for thanksgiving! In a month celebrated by food, family, and naps many of us take time out of our days to list the things in life that we are thankful for. Most of us are thankful for our families, for our loved ones, or for the promotion we just got at work. Not me. I am thankful for those things, but those aren’t the issues right now. No, not this year; especially when it comes to creative endeavors. Sometimes when I paint I feel that I have nothing to be thankful for, artistically. If you read my last post you know that I have been frustrated with my artwork lately. I once read that it should be considered a good thing if you are not...
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I have finally managed to get this thing online, so what better way to start than to show what I’m working on right now. Until yesterday, I was working on a commissioned painting of two young children. I say “until yesterday,” because it was yesterday that I got frustrated and decided to walk away from it for awhile. I could blame it on the fact that I’ve been sick for the better part of a week now, or that I haven’t painted much recently, or lack of inspiration. Whatever the reason, frustration got the better of me. Paint wasn’t jumping from my knives onto the canvas and forming itself into perfect representations of value and color....
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