good?

Jul. 23rd, 2025 07:43 pm
johncomic: (Moss)
[personal profile] johncomic
I was recently talking with Barbara about a local artist [acrylic painter] I have met and conversed with a few times... and how I always find it flattering but odd when I realize that said artist talks with me [and about me] as if I am a peer. Barbara says that I am one and should certainly see myself that way, but I have trouble with this. Then she got talking about whether I realize that I am a good artist, and that my art is good.

Afterward I thought about it for a while, and realized that I do think that my work is generally Good Enough®, but I don't think of it as Good®. Since then, I've been struggling to define for myself just what the difference is, between good enough and good.

Finally I settled on something like this: if I look at a piece of mine, and I don't see things that I wish I had done differently, or parts that aren't quite what I would like.... if the flaws are not glaring, but are acceptable instead, then I can say the work is good.** Then I got thinking about which pieces of mine I can say that about.

I came up with four. Out of sixty years of arting.

Not sure where I'm going with this, I still need to mull over and hash out. Wondering if other people make a similar distinction between good-enough work and good work. I just wanted to get this down while I thought of it.



** and is this how I judge whether other people's work is good? Not sure that I do. Yet more sutff to mull over....

New Me For No Reason!®

Jul. 20th, 2025 07:47 pm
johncomic: (Uncle Old Guy)
[personal profile] johncomic
Seven years ago I grew everything out:


me in my longhair days


and kept it that way until today:


me in my current shorthair days

something I am grateful for today

Jul. 17th, 2025 08:21 pm
johncomic: (Steve the Pirate ani)
[personal profile] johncomic
The heat wave finally broke! It's been weeks!

Profile

strangeanimal: (Default)
strangeanimal

February 2009

S M T W T F S
12345 67
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 24th, 2025 11:14 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios