Mistakes

We've all made em.
Some small, some large, some costly, some hurtful, some foolish, and some just made with no thought or research, these I refer to as "dumb ass" mistakes.

I always remember folks saying if you made a mistake make it a big one.
A good one is, to learn from your mistakes.

Don't brood over your mistakes.

Then there are the great thinkers saying:

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
~Cullen Hightower

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
~Nadine Stair

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams

So why I am discussing mistakes?
Well as you know, or don't know, I am working on these mosaic masks and I've made so many mistakes, in dimensions, color schemes, contours, ( these fall in the dumb ass category).

I want to scrap the project.
However I persist.
Falling into the Scott Adams category I am now trying to figure out what to keep.

I believe this is a test.
Which is why, I am so adamant about continuing on a partially failed project.
I think I can apply this not just to may art, but to my writing as well.

Very often when we write ourselves into a corner the only way out is to become a super hero or introduce a new character or scene.

Staying with this rule of thumb, I believe I will introduce a new medium onto my glass mosaic thus becoming a mixed medium project and not scrapping it altogether.

Now to figure out what medium to introduce, perhaps wire mesh and acrylic paint.
I did take pictures but I now want to change everything..

I'll keep snapping away so you can see my process as it develops, but I'm not going to post the pictures until I figure out where I'm going.

It's hard to share your mistakes with others when we can slap a pile of paint on them and cover em up.
I feel very vulnerable putting them out there... I will, just be patient.
I will however share a mistake I made which caused me years of anguish.

This was the mistake of not believing in myself.

If you do one thing after reading my blog, do this,
tell yourself how worthy you are, and that you will never let yourself down, ever!

Life is short, we need to understand belief in ourselves, is as important as, the air we breath and the food we eat.
Peace and love,
Janice