Quote by Allen Ginsberg
getting somewhere
The daily practice is proving to be a valuable one. Something has started to move… A subtle change… Lines come more easily it seems.
I wish I’d left her alone .. Some raw emotions emanate from her…
I kept working and it felt as if I had changed her essence.
Learning…
June challenge
Have I told you? I completed my 100 faces challenge recently, which took me way too long (I say so!). So I thought I needed to push for spontaneity a bit more. I’ve decided to paint a face a day during June to learn to get looser !
Here are a few ..
With pastels and charcoal
Acrylic on paper
And a fun sketch
Connection
process
I haven’t been very present on the blog lately…
I’ve found myself between places in my creative journey… As I’m learning, I experiment all sorts of things…I learn, get some ideas, try, process, try again and so on…
While doing this, I am experiencing this push-pull kind of internal conversation, some sort of yearning, a hunger to create. Great, isn’it?! well… not so much! I try to express this desire…and that’s where I get stuck and very frustrated!!!
I am looking for my own voice, my own style. I am aware that my style is, right now, developing; this is part of the process. But my impatient self would like to know what kind of art I want to do…
As an apprentice, I get influenced by many, renown, established and emerging artists..a wonderful flow of inspiration…But at times, I’d like to turn off the flow of information that I’m getting…to just tap into my own flow.
a work in progress;)
I did this sketch on a background. I was happy with her pose and expression..
She turned out very different and no matter how much I worked and reworked her, I couldn’t get her nose right. So she got a clown nose for it!
Not happy with her!
Then I tried some collage with a Rumi poem and some bold marks which was fun to do. The initial sketch was fun and kept the boldness….
But then I kept working on it … And was so disappointed of loosing the initial drawing!
This one was inspired by my friend Anne and her challenge A Face A Day for this year. Check her out, she’s amazing!
Oh well…. This is the process of all things😉
Somewhere I have found myself
And then I got lost again…
A huge silence
If we were not so single minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.
~Pablo Neruda
about monkey mind
Some Albert Ellis’ wisdom (after my 4-day training;)
Both found on Pinterest
Always learning…
faces
Remember..I’m painting or drawing 100 faces…
I am slowly slowly getting there;)
Here are a few pieces I’ve recently done. I’ve used charcoal and gesso on paper which is a lot of fun for me, a no-fuss way of creating, where things flow easily…
For art entwined workshop, Misty Mawn made us studying several artists by observing, connecting, analysing and then re-creating our own interpretation of their art. This is such an interesting process, so rich but also challenging and profound.
This is about finding deep within myself what is my emotional response in relation to a piece and then trying to translate it with my own interpretation. The following piece was inspired by Oswaldo Guyasamin and by my friends Anne & Jeanne Marie 😉
By the way, a year ago I painted my first face in my first art journal!! Things are evolving;)
have a great week end dear ones💚
Ole
I recently saw a wonderful documentary about brain capacity and how our brain keeps developing special connections when we practice a sport, a music instrument or a task over and over.
What our brain does is that more we practice, more our brain builds up connection so that we keep getting better and better at this thing!
I know this as I use mindfulness and neuroscience theoretical modalities all the time in my professional practice however watching this on tv stroke me. The emphasis was on the repetition and commitment to a certain practice.
Does it give you hope? it certainly does for me…
A recent exchange with my friends Anne and Jeanne Marie on Instagram was a great reminder of that.
Jeanne Marie commented about a book she had read, the Talent Code, which talks about practice and talent and how talent is grown by practicing…
Great syncronicity… I think I needed this reminder for my art practice!
Here is another reminder of some sort!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA
Ole to you! Keep showing up!
Have a great Easter everyone xx
sur le chemin du zigodor 