DRESS REHEARSAL, sold

DRESS REHEARSAL is a 5x7 pastel on PastelBord. Bidding begins at $100. I received this email from a fellow artist, and I felt she expressed what we all go through so well, I thought I'd share it (with her permission, of course). FROM A READER: I love seeing your work. It is so inspiring! I don't know if you will remember me from a recent workshop. I'm recently in quite a funk with my work....Hard to get to the easel . What I finally imagine is getting to me is I want so much to paint like you and I feel so inadequate!!! It's doing me in!! In the last few days it has occurred to me that this is the problem...I keep telling myself I'm expecting too much...too soon.....my head gets it ...but my heart is pained. I want to leap up to your level just by shear desire and appreciation. It doesn't work like that....I know. So I seem to have moved away from my style and caught somewhere in between ..... which is a nasty place. I hate what I'm doing!!!! I stopped goin...