Da Vinci, Picasso, and the soon to be famous John Svedese, these are just a few of the world’s great artists.
One of the biggest problems artists of all stages have isn’t what brush to use or how to get the perfect shade of green, the biggest problem artist have is finding time to eat. Many artists will go a whole day without food, that is unless you count coffee and booze, which I do not. To prove my point, Picasso’s wife once made him his favorite meal, stew of eel, he painted it instead of eating it.
Artists get stuck in this tunnel vision when they are working on something. Times and dates all get mushed into one. Robin Eley is a famous hyper realistic oil painter and is known to work up to 5 weeks on a painting, working 90 hours a week. So how do we fix this? First, we need to remember how much food affects our creativity. When we skip a meal, let’s say breakfast, our glucose levels go down which causes our blood sugar to go down and we become sluggish, irritated, and unable to concentrate. I’m sure we have all had those days when we sit down to work and we just want to lay our heads on the desk and not move, not think, not talk and I bet most of those times you did not eat breakfast.
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