Successful art?

Hi Friends!

My daughter came over Wednesday to swim, play with her pup and paint. Although she is very good with watercolors, she had never tried oils. We grabbed a couple of canvas sheets and shared a pallet full of color and brushes. We talked about color and technique and flowers and dogs and of course, guys! Our work will never hang in a gallery or may never be finished. But because we had a good time learning something new and being together, I would call that successful art. How about you?

"Your work may not be what curators want to exhibit or publishers want to publish, but those are different issues entirely. You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours.  It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work.  After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.
 -excerpt from Art and Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland