Sleep, Being Tired and Painting

Its a beautiful Saturday afternoon and all I want to do is work and sleep.  Then work some more then sleep some more.  It doesn't seem logical that painting is so exerting but it is.  My poor students collapse when they finish a   PAINT BIG workshop ....a collapse of joy and accomplishment but also a collapse of sheer exhaustion.  Its grueling to lay it all on the line, and once you've handed all   your arguing and resistance  over , you become a follower, you give into the the process of painting itself.   Your mind has ceased fighting and you give up. 

This, I suppose,  is the place of total surrender.  And in this place amazing colorful  things happen because you have stopped struggling  and you just sway your hand with the paint-laden brush  and you realize it is joyful.