I tried and cannot find info on the source of this comic. Reverse image search turns up nothing, and I didn’t have any luck with the exact text at the bottom either.
If I’m reading the signature right, it looks like the cartoonist is G.B. Inwood. It’s likely early 1900s based on the style.
At least he put paint to canvas.
Im up to two unique and lovely ideas and neither of them has made any progress because WHAT IF i cant do the idea justice? I know I’ve spent literal years thinking about it but WHAT IF it isn’t what i had in mind???
Honestly, you have to go into it with the goal of making bad paintings. Just tell yourself, today I’m going to make a truly awful painting. If I’m ever going to learn to do this, I will have to waste paint and canvas. I have good paintings in me, but they are hiding behind a number of terrible paintings.
I will never know that number until I’ve painted them.
Do it. Worst that can happen? You fuck it up and paint over it (or get a new canvas). I’ve spent so many years not doing art for fear of the same thing, and I’m only getting older. You have the desire … start with a splot of any colour on the canvas and go from there.