{"id":334,"date":"2025-08-08T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddwhite.art\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:39:41","slug":"balancing-art-and-life-an-update-on-my-creative-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddwhite.art\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Art and Life: An Update on My Creative Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I figured it was time to post a bit of an update, being it has been nearly a month since my last post here. Not for lack of thinking about doing it, I just haven\u2019t gotten around to it mostly because my full time gig has kept me extremely busy while I am at the office and then after I leave the office things are just as busy because that just happens to be how my life is as of late. At some point I am going to get to slow down and actually get all the other things I want to get done accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am still working on the piece I started about two or three months ago, I just haven\u2019t had time to get back to it with getting home late from work and just not having the energy to get anything done after we get completely settled. But I am going to have to start setting aside some time in order to work on paintings being I went to all the trouble of moving my home studio downstairs to have better access to it. Reality is you have to have time first before having better access can help you out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have managed in the last couple of months to amass quite the library of things to aid in learning figure drawing, something which I really want to get into doing and then apply that to painting as well, but again I have all the tools but I have to work in the time for that as well so that I can get in some practice on the daily, I figure that if my old ability comes back up I might be pretty decent with practice in about 6 months or so. And if it takes a bit longer that is OK too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have high hopes that I might actually sell at least one piece of art before the end of this year, it would be nice but in order to do that I am likely going to have to start sharing more of it on the internet on my Instagram most likely and maybe on X as well and then maybe I might get a sale. Like I said I will be happy to sell one single piece by years end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a good thing that is coming up, on 9 Aug I celebrate 16 years clean and sober, it has been a long hard road to get here but quite happy to be on this road than to have continued my path to self destruction which was the way things were going. I can tell any of you reading this that the number of years don\u2019t add to the easiness of being clean and sober, it is a fight every day to not move back to my self destructive nature but that is OK, I am up for the fight on the daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well this is it for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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