"Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination."
~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Enjoying a quiet day in my
favorite big city: Lyon. Yesterday GORGEOUS so I wandered. Today overcast so I'm relaxing a bit. Laundry, shower, catching up on photos
and my blog. This weekend is to be
beautiful and I'm sure we will be busy.
I am also getting a bit anxious to get some artwork done .. but all my
supplies are back in Périgueux (thanks to RyanAir limitations Valencia to
Bologna). Still I can feel my
creative spirit filling to overflowing!
Exciting!
(My thoughts after a message from a friend who commented on another artist’s paintings)
He (an artist)
does have a few proportion situations but his feeling, the emotions in his
paintings are great. I've been working on my thoughts and approaches to being
creative (I cannot do any painting right now. All my supplies are in Périgueux, thanks to the RyanAir
luggage limitations from Valencia to Bologna). I've been working “virtually” – imagining what I’ll do
soon - trying to allow myself to be more creative, more free, showing more of my
basic feelings toward my artwork process. Letting go of decades of "what
will others think" is a tough one. But it's NOW OR NOT .. I want to experience
my art, and especially the process of creativity, for ME. Looser, more light and texture, more color
and “brush” strokes. It takes focus to let go of old habits of thinking. But
I’m learning that we can train our thinking as well as our body. It is a whole
new process of thinking for me in the last five years or so.
I belong to
a few art groups online, Maine Artists, Pastel Artists, and others, and it is
surprising how many people are not very good and everyone ooohs and aahs. I know someone who is basically making a
living as an artist but the perspective and proportions are so often “off” in
the work. But who am I to
judge? I myself am not a
master. I encourage them to enjoy the
process of creation. Artists need encouragement, not more critiquing. I'm not about to make corrective
suggestions unless someone is my student or request it.
I believe
more and more that it is more about the PROCESS of CREATION, not the final product.
I've actually been revisiting how I exhibit and sell my paintings. For me it's become
much more the process. So my joy happens there .. the product is residue. Traveling, being “away”, gives me time
to examine things virtually and emotionally. A fresh perspective.
A good chance to transform.
"There
is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works
in which
the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination."
~Robert
Brault
OK! I couldn’t stand it any more. My creative spirit demanded its fix. So. Found an art supply store a few blocks away and purchased a couple of
basics. Tomorrow I have the
opportunity to work in pastel!
Color me happy!
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