Justine 4

Art: yay! Late now. Sleepy times

...I like green

Weird Tips for Art Students #2

Art and Fear, Letters to a Young Artist, and Ignore Everybody should be read by anyone at a crisis point with their work. Or just read one and then save the others for when you're in trouble again.

Also useful, a central bit of trivia from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: it takes 10,000 hours of work to be really truly excellent at something. This translates to about ten years. Patience and passion, people.