What great friends I have!
Thanks all of you who provided a bit of moral support for poor Lumps and Lumps Ver.2.0.
I paint for the fun of it, and nothing anybody says can take that away from me. I wish I was better at it, but I accept my limitations and am content to do my best and progress at my own pace. For that reason, I cannot afford to be particularly thin-skinned regarding other peoples' opinions of my work, solicited or otherwise.
It takes a lot of nerve to stand up and stick out like a sore thumb, but I'll just take my lumps and roll with the punches the way I always have. That being the way it is, I don't normally stand up for myself because I'm the sore thumb that stuck out and started it all in the first place.
I try not to let mean-spirited people get to me, but I freely admit that somethimes they still do. Thanks everybody who stood up for me, but more importantly, thanks for standing up for all the other as-yet-anonymous hobbyists who are one harsh word away from throwing their brushes and paints in the trash and giving up forever.
It's a danm fine community I belong to, and I love y'all.
I paint for the fun of it, and nothing anybody says can take that away from me. I wish I was better at it, but I accept my limitations and am content to do my best and progress at my own pace. For that reason, I cannot afford to be particularly thin-skinned regarding other peoples' opinions of my work, solicited or otherwise.
It takes a lot of nerve to stand up and stick out like a sore thumb, but I'll just take my lumps and roll with the punches the way I always have. That being the way it is, I don't normally stand up for myself because I'm the sore thumb that stuck out and started it all in the first place.
I try not to let mean-spirited people get to me, but I freely admit that somethimes they still do. Thanks everybody who stood up for me, but more importantly, thanks for standing up for all the other as-yet-anonymous hobbyists who are one harsh word away from throwing their brushes and paints in the trash and giving up forever.
It's a danm fine community I belong to, and I love y'all.