opiate...aka why we create....

I'm totally getting ready for Rumble House this week....so I am prepared to kick ass.


I have covered two old canvases in gesso...they've been sitting in the basement since...forever....and I will

breathe new life into them.  :)  right?

I mean....sometimes it takes a little magic....to breathe new life into something....something that was....

left....in the basement.....for years....and.....

:)

also, I'm working on something with watercolor and tissue paper....and OY....it is NOT turning out how I had hoped....

but sometimes....ideas don't work out....and you need to go back to the drawing board...or maybe it's not the idea...

but how you conduct yourself around the elements....maybe I'm not listening enough to what they have to say and I'm trying to force them into something they are not...you know....profound stuff in art.  

(OY, UGH....and all that.....tissue and gouache.....I think I need to approach this differently, totally not even whispering life into this yet....)

that's ok...it's better than ok....sometimes you have to sit back and listen....and figure out the next step.....

it's totally growing and getting better...

and then...like Jaime Wyeth said... you have that moment...when you breathe life into something...it comes alive...and it's on fire with life....it's that opiate....it's the reason why we paint.



peace...and love....and breathing life into something that sat in hibernation for too long.