New Work

In December my doctor put me on a new medication. My old medication caused me to gain over fifty pounds and eventually I developed diabetes. I was always tired and slept over twelve hours a day. I don't know if my creativity was affected, but found myself often too tired to do any work. So indirectly my creativity was affected. Since I started my new medication I stopped drinking sugared caffeinated soda. I cut 90% of the refined sugar out of my diet and started drinking nothing but water and vegetable juice. So far I have lost over twenty pounds. It hasn't been easy. Somedays I really crave soda. Especially those days when I am irritable and it seems the world just won't cooperate with my expectations. Since December I haven't created one painting. This bugs me but I have found myself doing an art journal every day and it has been consistent. There hasn't been a day that has been missed. In the past there would be small drawings in the margin of my journal and sometimes these would be embellished with colored pencil. Recently every days work is completed with small colored pencil drawings. A journal that began on January 11th was completed yesterday and drawings in the margins were all colored. Doesn't sound like much, but in the past I have never been able to consistently do it.
In January the shop where I sold my work quit selling my art when they went out of business. This a primary reason that I have not been doing my small watercolor drawings. I read somewhere that if a person begins to sell their work there is a reluctance to create unless it is for sale. Sounds kind of untrue, but in my case this seems to be the case. I find myself just doing small things for the sake of creating, but nothing that would find its way into a shop.