Of course this will not be the long version or the whole story, just a teaser...
Has that ever happened to you? Do you have any idea how incredibly good that felt?
It felt so good I would do nearly anything to experience that again and again. That was the first perk Street painting gave me and the repeated dose of it improved my enjoyment of life, my creativity, and all the projects I have created since then.
This relief from the hidden lambasting of my inner voice happened due to a swarm of people, the buzz of appreciation that consistently erupted out of the crowd, "Wow!" "That's incredible!" "Fantastic!" "Great job!"
I am sure you can imagine that is not what most of us have going on in our heads through out the day, and especially when we are working on something and doing our best to do it well.
The voice inside me pouted and took a back seat to the beautiful tone and energy of the crowd of people who upstaged all the doubt and criticism I had not even known had previously swirled inside my head.
In the past if anyone saw a project I had been working on, or finished, and they loved it and said so, it was too hard for me to join them in their joy. I was so filled with funk about what was not quite right that I blurted out the struggle I had about what had not worked so well, or the parts I felt still needed improvement. The kind of thinking I had been accustomed to often prevented me from ever feeling complete and good about the art I created, and it certainly stole most of the enjoyment.
The added credit and positive praise from the crowd became the fuel that turned my experience and thinking around to an ecstatic delight in creating. Which if you can imagine really helped me create more, which naturally leads to one getting better faster.
Wooo Hooo! Want to learn about art and your own process? Sign up to chalk up the street at a street painting festival, you will be amazed!
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