Creative Play
Creative playtime is often one of the most important activities we can engage in as artists. I believe taking the time to play with new ideas, new mediums and color palettes, keeps us in touch with our creative child. After all, our child just wants to have some fun. Taking risks and experimenting is key to our growth and makes us feel alive, and rejuvenated.
We all know that it’s fun to create and make things, and yet we tend to go straight from the idea to the finished painting, without giving ourselves some precious creative goofing around time in the studio.
You know what I mean, maybe your a watercolorist or oil painter, and those pastels you bought way back when, has never been opened . The time for trying something new is now, for later seems to never come.
Go ahead, give yourself permission to goof around with something you have always wanted to try, but never did.
This morning I was listening to the radio as I started working on the canvas below. The DJ was playing “I can see clearly now” by Johnny Nash. My goal was to paint something colorful and fun, and something between figurative and abstract.
As the music played and my hand moved across the canvas in wild abandonment, the painting below is what I came up with. I was trying new color combinations, while keeping my brushwork loose and lively.
Just Breathe, let go, and flow!
Bright Sunshiny Day - Combined Media - 5 X 7 inches
Filed under: My Art, Work in Progress