Confessions Of An Artaholic

My name is Chris, and I’m an artaholic. No matter how much art I do, I always want more. When I am not painting, I am thinking about it. I find myself looking at everything with an artist’s eye. Whatever I see, becomes a work of art to me. Even the books I read are about art. In my spare time, I write about art and do life drawing studies.

I have have been clean for a few hours, but soon I will have paint and pastel all over my clothes again. Being an artaholic makes it hard to find a wage-paying job and I seem to have lost my desire to get one anyway. Since I started painting I have lost my steady income and have been hanging out with other artaholics. They encourage me to continue my addiction and enable my habits. I sell my paintings to afford my paraphenalia such as paintbrushes. Then I just paint more. It is a vicious cycle.

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