{"id":7991,"date":"2013-12-11T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T06:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2013-12-13T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:58:29","slug":"find-a-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/12\/11\/find-a-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Artists-Fellowship-115\"<\/a><\/h6>\n

Painting is a solitary craft. So are a lot of things. But we’re not made to be alone. At least not always. We need to find a way to bring some society into our work.<\/p>\n

It’s for this I recommend you look for a group to be part of. This is for the sake of the work itself, but more, to have someone to talk with about it.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t too long after I started painting that a friend from the office learned of it and was interested. He said he used to paint, but then got busy. What likely really happened was that he wasn’t painting with anybody else, or wasn’t around anyone else who put any importance on painting. But when he saw that I was doing it, he brightened.<\/p>\n

So I said, Why don’t we do it together? And he loved the idea.<\/p>\n

By then I was painting every day, at least for an hour, in my garage. But as he lived closer to the office, we opted for his garage, after work, once a week. In time others learned of what we were doing and joined us.<\/p>\n

We called ourselves, “The Latent Painters,<\/em>” all of whom had painted for periods before but the energy had run out. And why had the energy run out? Because the fellowship had run out, or had never been.<\/p>\n

As it was, we had a great time. Being right after work, we always had a bit of dinner together, very simple. We always had music playing. And we talked, or we didn’t talk. Each of us were intent on our own canvas. It wasn’t about teaching or even influencing. Some of that happened, naturally, but it wasn’t what it was designed for. Mainly it was just for the fellowship. People of like interest were sharing their interest together.<\/p>\n

In time we even put on a little show . . . at the office. We set out our paintings and invited people to come by over their coffee break. It was very amateur, but so what? It was fun for everybody, and everybody came away with the idea that they could go out and do likewise.<\/p>\n

Not necessarily to paint, for only a few were painters, but something. We can’t do everything alone . . . or even anything alone for very long. We need a fellowship. And it may be up to us to form one.<\/p>\n

It’ll help you. It’ll help others.<\/p>\n

Don’t dry up. Water others.<\/p>\n

___________<\/p>\n

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Whatever our new endeavor, it’ll help if we can find others to do it with. There will be more reasons to stay with it, and it’ll be more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}