{"id":245,"date":"2024-08-29T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddwhite.art\/?p=245"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:21:10","slug":"i-am-bad-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddwhite.art\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"I am bad at this\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So it has been literally months since I have posted an update here, which proves how bad I am at this for sure. It is something I am working on though and trying to get better at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as far as my art goes I am still painting, usually slowly but I do have two new pieces that I will be hopefully posting up here next week as well as updating all the pictures for each of the other paintings so that they look a bit better than they do currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things I have to start doing which I haven\u2019t been doing as of yet is starting a sketchbook and actually practicing my drawing, something I seriously need to brush up on as it has been decades since I have drawn anything at all other than digital drawings for work. I sketched some of the stuff I did for work years ago before creating the digital drawings, but that was like 2 decades ago. That is something I plan on starting shortly and making a regular habit of it going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a short update for now, maybe more next time or maybe I stick to short updates in order to make sure I just keep posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh one other update, a big one for me, I celebrated 15 years clean and sober!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later, David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it has been literally months since I have posted an update here, which proves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,9,10,11,3,5,28,29,19,14,7,25,27,26],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-abstract","tag-abstract-art","tag-abstract-painting","tag-acrylic","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-clean","tag-clean-and-sober","tag-drawing","tag-motivation","tag-painting","tag-sketching","tag-sober","tag-sobriety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daviddwhite.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pexels-photo-2324808.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1245&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/daviddwhite.art\/?p=334","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":0},"title":"Balancing Art and Life: An Update on My Creative Journey","author":"DavidDWhite.Art","date":"August 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I figured it was time to post a bit of an update, being it has been nearly a month since my last post here. 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