Tshirts and Tikis

I hope you are all doing well.Ok so it has been a crazy 24 hours. In the last 24 hours I have accumulated a couple of projects. Some are just personal projects to just kick around and others are actual paying gigs.

Two of the paying ones are t-shirt designs that will hopefully help me to pay the bills this month and get a little cash in my pocket. The personal project is trying to look into wood carving as a medium. I was doing some carving yesterday that would make Norm Abram cry but heck I was enjoying it. Anyways, I had been working on this little hei-matau for around 3 hours when I find that there is a crack going through 50 percent of the stem of the hook. I wasn't too happy but I learned some stuff and that is what this line of work or any thing in art is all about.


In the book Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland they talk about why art causes us so much trouble. But they talked about dispelling your fear of error. They say

"If you think good work is somehow synonymous with perfect work, you are headed for big trouble. Art is human; error is human ;ergo,art is error. Inevitably, your work...will be flawed. Why? Because you're a human being, and only human beings, warts and all, make art."

So don't fear failure.Now when I look at that half carved piece of wood on my desk it reminds me why I make art. It's fun.

If you are doing some form of art today don't fear making mistakes.