Dear readers,
The dust in our household seems to have settled down a bit, so I picked up my daily creative practice again. Oh how wonderful painting is! I notice how I more and more seem to be able to be in the now. Just painting one stroke after another, not worrying about if the composition will turn out right, or something like that. One step after another, everything feeling if what I am doing feels joyful and beautiful. I can simply feel it in my body, where I shall put the next brushstroke, what colour I will choose. Of course the mind plays a role in this (I know how using contrasting colours and the black/white contrast can make a painting alive for instance) but this knowledge seems to have totally integrated with something that is moving on a deeper level.
Of course: metaphores all around here for the connection with ‘real life’ here. At least it is nice that artmaking is a beautiful practice for such a way of living in the now. And every practice is welcome!
Have a great day!
Simone
Hi Dotty, hope you have a good time in Maine!
Yes, it is indeed stretched canvas. Actually, I don’t like so much the ‘checkered’ effect the canvas has on the details. But it was the first thing I found this morning – did not have time or energy to make the effort of cutting paper. Which I maybe like more as a substrate.
The size is 50/50 cm (20/20″).
And indeed: I love the ‘found compositions’. Everyday when I am finished I take at least one photo of a found composition, to use as header above my blog. This is often one of the nicest thing to do! And I can tell the ‘quality’ of my work of that day of the amount of beautiful ‘found compositions’…
Simone, looks like you worked on canvas today, yes? A stretched canvas? What size? My eyes are loving looking at the interaction of color, texture, and layering, and at the outward expression of inward flow. I continue to be fascinated with the ‘found’ compositions (your detail photos) within a larger piece where deliberate attention to composition was of no concern.
I LOVED reading what you wrote today. YES YES YES to those gifts of painting, for artwork as a beautiful practice for such a way of living in the now.