We’ve been surrounded by big storms lately and even a few cyclones, but none landed in our area luckily.
I noticed that when I go for my walk, I see now the endless variety of colors that Nature creates in color name.
Payne gray is one of my favorite!
This is what I’ve been working on recently and I must say, I have experienced the most exciting feeling with this technique.
Mixing colors, creating values, adding a touch here or there fascinate me.
It’s like painting through my intuition, without the use of rational or analytic thinking.
Something different happened..some sort of letting go…
a very excited moi!!
on cardboard
mini paintings on paper
it looks messy and I love it
Can you tell I’m excited by this;)
10 rules from artist Richard Diebenkorn, found on Pinterest and brainpickings.org
The outback
This country is hard to grasp. The immensity strikes me.
It is almost scary
so much space and nothing to contain us.
With the vastness of the horizon,
we must expand, grow into it,
take as much space as we can,
integrate this immensity within us,
let it feed us; otherwise we will get swallowed, crushed, fearful and unable to accept the opportunity to be nourished by the elements.
Time too is larger.
Or slower.
The pace is different in the Outback; you look around and everything seems still, like the clock has stopped.
And yet, the sun setting reminds us that today is passing.
Or perhaps it is the energy that is still.
It is not the effervescent sea shore, with the continuous tidal movement.
Here, it’s still.
Quiet.
Or loud
of the heat, the birds, the gusty wind, the harshness of the land, dry and dusty.
Some people say that there is nothing out here.
Too harsh, too isolated. Hard country it is.
To see and feel the outback, you have to open yourself, leave your known world behind, open your senses to its appealing and fascinating beauty.
I had written this while on our trip across Australia, almost two years ago…
For some reasons, the desert is calling.
This is where I’d like to be right now.
I know I have written about this before but it hit me again..
Through my creative experiments and learning, I’d like to think that I am always spontaneous, embracing things, learning from opportunities…
But clearly this is not true.
Learning new skills pushes us around, isn’t it? and as much as we want to learn, we also put boundaries, consciously or unconsciously, by fear of the unknown, by fear of meeting our own limits, our own flaws…
This concept can be applied in therapy as well.. I hear times to times clients who are crying for help but refusing to do the leap…terrified by the unknown, by what they could discover about themselves or by fear of seeing their protective walls falling apart. Sadly we won’t know what lives behind those walls until we decide to let them go.
Why am I rambling about this? with the start of Misty Mawn new online art class, I got to meet face to face with some of my limits again, the ones that I am putting to myself…and as much as it annoys me, it keeps happening… I feel a multitude of paintings within myself waiting to be created and yet, I feel blocked by my fear of failing, of not knowing how, judging my limited skills and so on…
This paradox won’t sustain as my desire to create is larger than my fear…but how do we push ourselves when we are stuck…what do you do when you feel yourself caught in this limbo? what strategies worked? How nice would it be to paint like a child, without expectation, being in the moment, fully embracing what is in front of us..
It reminds me this quote i read on Lisa Sonora‘s blog…paint like a dog goes after a bone.
So that’s what I will do…
via pinterest
Every time I am home alone for a few days, I feel this exquisite joy… the joy of being alone, with my own thoughts, my own rhythm… and I thought this morning of Susan Cain TED TALK!~
Have a wonderful week end!
Guess what I’ll be doing this week end;)
And then…
I have a tendency to stay into my comfit zone…but not this time!!
When I started to seriously embrace my creativity 18 months ago, I knew very little about art supplies. Do you know for instance that you can paint on carboard? I love cardboard now…(merci Anne;)
It’s interesting actually how a cheap surface influences my process…I am more spontaneous, more daring, without thinking about the result, more about the experience or experiment!
My friend Lyn asked me what helped to tackle portraits and if I had any suggestion.. I’d say..just try!
Before starting this 100 Faces Challenge, I didn’t think I was good enough. I didn’t think I would dare showing up. And the fact is, there are many many more talented artists who are better at painting portraits. But here is another fact: I am enjoying it!!
I really loved Carla Sonheim online class DRAW. It definitely helped me to start with basic drawing skills, contour, blind, haiku and so on…
She delivers fun and interesting techniques in short videos, which are very accessible for all sorts!
My curiosity and desire took me places I never thought I would visit…
Greg Kletsel via Pinterest
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