I saw some very cool wild flowers today that I had not seen before.
Spring is here, even though we have not had too much rain.
I saw some very cool wild flowers today that I had not seen before.
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My house is a disaster and yet I sit here and create yummy goodness. Haaaaa, well I guess I really need a studio, but for some reason I like being near my crock pot of chicken verde bubbling, the sink right there to wash my brushes, I can walk the dog, take a breath, go to the fridge for a few thin slices of my beloved Thueringer salami. There's a lot to be said for painting at home, everything is right here. I guess if I were a big time painter with tons of big canvases I'd think differently, but for lil ol me and for what I do my space, my home is just right. It helps to be satisfied if you are wanting to get into the creative zone, it helps to be settled before you get into the spaceship and take off at mock ten...haaaaa
Everything works. I do wish my supplies had more room to spread out, and I didn't have to move my pie tray of broken pastels to use the toaster...some how that craziness and chaos comes thru in my art though. What would it look like if I had little pots with pen colors separated lined up along a wall of pegboard? Notes and drawings easily accessed pinned to a board above my new white work station? No, I don't think the chaos would come thru....I'd rather search a box of paper clippings knowing I had a pink turtle in there somewhere, and be ecstatic when I found it. Sure it takes me longer, but part of the fun is the search right...I knew it was there somewhere. When you have to search for things, you come across "other things"....and you know what "other things" do, they set your mind a swirling! Other things have a tendency to want it their way, they want to grab you, change your direction, and take you for a ride into the unknown of left field. I always jump on that train with the "other things", is that what creativity is. Is that where creativity comes from.......an openness, a willingness, to go for a ride..... Yes, I'm thinking so. http://www.theorganicgallery.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html When I saw the horrible photos of the Tsunami, this was not the Japan I remember. I had to do this instead. To the warm, wonderful, and quirky people of Japan, may the giggles stay with you.
Trying to focus.....I really do go into the zone. I surprised even myself. I turned out what I like to call a nice piece of "Organic Art" even while being filmed, people, eyes, cameras etc. I go to a place that is my history within art, my intuition. I talk a lot about intuition in painting.....maybe it's because I'm old......haa. But I do know I depend on my gut to lead me, and make the next move. It is experience speaking to me to where I might drop that blob of blue. It's having tried and failed so many times, your instinct becomes accustomed to mistakes and fixes. Woops do that ....gotta do this.....rectified! Then all of a sudden one day you change....you need to always change to grow. You CHANGE everything up, new eyes, new approach, and learn a new way to keep fresh. Its a wheel, the path to creativity and the road to the new. Any artist, writer, or musician, chef, or dancer, will tell you to get into the zone of a new approach and have it work, is the ultimate feeling. It's that groove that old jazz musicians talk about. It's the runners high when they hit the 20th mile. It's all the good that you can imagine, it's kismet, it's nirvana.......it is addictive. Drummers drumming together, when it moves into the zone, it's just damn easy, it flows. |
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