{"id":5751,"date":"2019-02-21T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:50:21","slug":"prolific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/prolific\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first person to call me prolific is a brilliant impressionist. My friend Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to look it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-lif-ic <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/pr\u0259\u02c8lifik\/ dictionary <\/p>\n\n\n\n

adjective<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

adjective: prolific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. ( of plant, animal or person) producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. present in large numbers or quantities. Plentiful. Abundant.  Productive, creative, inventive, fertile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s interesting about this definition, not once does it say \u201ceasily\u201d.  
Yet, it\u2019s a common misunderstanding it must be for creatives who are prolific.
Those two words in conjunction with another fly around me fairly often. \u201cProlific, easy, natural\u201d.
Only one is true. I am prolific.
I produce a mountain of work, not because its easy or natural. Not one little iota.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iota – [ahy-oh-tuh]<\/sup>\u201csomething very small, iota is the smallest letter in the Greek Alphabet\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are very few natural genius\u2019s. I have met many artists, musicians, writers who agree. In fact, I have yet to meet one who said the work came easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s danger in assuming every artist is a natural easy talent.\u00a0
First: it devalues their work effort, education, evolved skill.\u00a0
Second: it becomes a cop out for those who want to attempt creative practice. I hear this all the time. \u201cOh I wasn\u2019t born with it like you were, so why bother.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends, I wasn\u2019t born with it either. 
Dad describes it best, sharing his perspective with Mr. Shurniak recently, \u201cFor years she drew and drew and drew, and it never looked like anything. Then one day it did.\u201d I love that he continues to share this story, because it\u2019s honest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week a friend asked what the hardest part of my job is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s creating the work. Because without quality work, without feeling good about what I release, the rest  of it, selling, promoting, etc, is not just challenging, it\u2019s impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still produce duds. It comes with the territory. Perhaps where I excel is being able to overcome the frustration.To not be bogged down, or hampered by it. Or, like some, insulted by it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privileged to do what I love, not knowing how long I will be able to do it, I am driven by a sense of urgency. With an unquenchable thirst to improve, to delight and engage you, I just get back to work.

 \u201cKeep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.\u201d Robert Genn.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Beach” 11×14 oil on canvas $660.oo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Carnation” oil on board sketch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Sky over Field” 8×10 oil on canvas $500.oo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Out of the Ashes, Into the Clouds” 24×30 work in progress oil $1,980.oo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first person to call me prolific is a brilliant impressionist. My friend Patrick. I had to look it up. Pro-lif-ic  \/pr\u0259\u02c8lifik\/ dictionary  adjective adjective: prolific 1. ( of plant, animal or person) producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring.  … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}