Absorbedness

Autumn Passage 12 x 12

 It was hard to sit down to work this morning.  Week days and weekends tend to blend together when you work as an artist.  I don't paint when I feel like it, I paint most everyday because it is what I do.  I was fighting that a little this morning, but once I sat down, the hours disappeared and at the end of it, I had something to show for my time.

The author, Donald Hall said, "Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.  Contentment is absorbedness." A good day of painting embodies that for me.