I am so excited to show you this video!! If you remember from my sneak peeks I’ve been working on a mural, and it is now done. This was a huge thing for me to complete because I never thought I would ever paint something this big. I’m pretty sure I could now paint the whole side of a building if I wanted to!
I hope you enjoy this video, it’s a time lapse in fast forward of the mural being painted. This mural has been a two month project, and many more months before that in the making. It started on paper, and the actual painting began about a month ago. The video only shows the wall part as the paper part wasn’t all that exciting.
In case you’re wondering the quote on the wall reads: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed lately with all the great ideas and information I am getting through Kelly Rae Robert’s e-course Taking Flight. In a good, the flood gates have opened, and let the creativity come flowing out of me kind of way! I’m on a roll this week, and hope that I can keep the momentum going. I have a lot of painting and organizing to do as I am participating in an art fair next month. More on that real soon!
I am getting distracted over here as I keep thinking of things I want to look at, or ideas to write down. So will wrap up this post. The painting above is part of a series; I hope to share those here soon as well. Lots of cool things coming this summer I can hardly wait to share them all with you!
Finding my style has been a hunt I’ve been on for quite some time now. The funny thing is somewhere in the past year I stopped looking for it, and I didn’t even realize that until I was flipping through an old sketchbook for some inspiration. Page after page of trying to force a style out of me, trying to recognize it, and just stressing over it way too much. That was when it dawned on me that I am not looking anymore, I have stopped trying to find it, I stopped obsessing about in my sketchbooks and journals, and I finally let go and just let my art be whatever it wanted. I have also noticed a bit of a shift in my art over the past few years. A shifting towards that unique element that makes it mine. I am still experimenting with different media, and stepping outside my comfort zone a lot in hopes of finding the one that fits me best. Maybe that is what is me though, the many different types of media I use to create my art. Part of the reason I know the reason my hunt for my style faded to the background was acceptance. I accepted this place where I am in my journey, I accepted that I will get to where I want to be no matter what the pace or path, and I accepted that my art will take many forms and won’t always be good.
I really believe creativity isn’t something that can be switched on and off, that we sometimes have to work to find it, and sometimes that means down time, and doing nothing creative at all, or trying a completely new media no matter how disastrous the results turn out. It means being gentle with ourselves, having patience, and accepting the pace, the path, and that you will get where you ultimately want to go.
So if you’re like me and are or were hunting for your style, it really comes when you stop looking for it, and give into the process. Try new things, and don’t give up. I can’t believe I was so caught up in having to find my style that I wasted so much time not enjoying the process of creating. Lesson learned, the hard way of course.
These may look a little familiar. I have shown some sneak peeks of them over the past few weeks. These paintings have taken what seems like forever to complete. I haven’t had a ton of time to spend on them, and finding little bits of time here and there slowly got them to this point, and it is amazing to see them finally finished. Once I get them scanned I will post each one.
For me lots of things seem to be taking a lot longer to complete this year. I am hoping with the change of seasons, the longer days, and the energy that seems to come with it, that I can be slightly more productive. It may just be wishful thinking, and I am ok with whatever pace my art takes. It will all get done, because it matters to me. I like to think of it as following the detour…
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