In January of 2024, I painted a lot of snow scenes.
If you watch the video, you will see how many – and this is not all of them.
Anyway, there was one painting I did that was really bad which you can see in the video.
I felt so disappointed with that picture.
And then that feeling of disappointment increased and became a deep depression.
It was so bad that I just put my paintbrush down and went for a walk by my local river.
This was a good idea.
I love walking by the river.
And the sunshine, fresh air and exercise started to disperse that deep depression.
Then later on, I looked through some of my photos on my cell phone and found an image that I really liked and wanted to paint.
And this got me to pick up the paintbrush again.
I think basically I got burn-out with a particular subject matter which in this case was snow scenes because I painted so many pictures of this subject.
The irony is that after painting a different subject matter, my enthusiasm for snow scenes came back and I went on to paint some more snow scenes.
How ridiculous is that.
Anyway, as you can see from the painting above, I did manage to paint some good pictures too.
Well, that’s all for now,
Gareth.