#2. STAMINA (Reflection While Painting “Buon Appetito!”)
Painting—Beans (Mixed)
Reflection—STAMINA
How much stamina does it take in order to be a serious painter? A lot! Even if you sit down and don’t stand, there’s energy exerted—mental as well as physical. You’re constantly engaged in your process, focusing and concentrating—stepping forward and back, planning and calculating, trying and retrying, doing and undoing. Sometimes mental gymnastics exhaust. Other times, the sheer physical strain of keeping steady hands, stretching up and down, or twisting, turning and bending provide a work-out you weren’t anticipating.
