rooms and roses

As spring is beginning, all I can do is wait patiently for the first all danger of frost has passed day. It is so late this year. 

Then the pruning of the roses and the hope for rooms filled with their perfume all summer and fall. Rooms and roses filled with life and excitement and beauty. 

The cold dark winter is over finally. Warm sun coming.

I adore redecorating my rooms in this old house. I like to change a lot every year. New curtains and new color on the wall. I crave the sun so I am painting it all over the furniture too. And pink lots of pink this year. and roses to match. roses roses flowing over the arbors and fences and vases all over the house. rooms with roses YES.

Beautiful Line

All these blogs out there. Blogs are like emails that go out into the whole computer world. But somebody has to read them. Why Does anybody read anyones blog at all. 

I read them for ideas and inspiration. It is like looking at pictures in magazines. Ideas flood into your brain and lots of time they are useable. 

There is a firehose of ideas  written all over the net and in books. 

What I am looking for is a beautiful line.

A new line  to draw and then change it into a woman and a story. 

A great line has three qualities. Surprise, Relationship, and Infinity. 

Surprise because it is not expected. You could not have just made it up. It is a surprise to the artist as well as to the observer.

Relationship because something inside you has to say "Oh yes I know this from somewhere."

Infinity because it never gets old. It is always new a beautiful no matter how many times you have looked at it or read it. It resonates every time. That is a beautiful line!

WONDERFUL

WEHN A PAINTING FLOWS OUT EFFORTLESSLY, USUALLY IT IS ONE THOUSAND PERCENT BETTER THAN THE ONES YOU STRUGGLE ONE. TODAY, I HAD THAT EXPERIENCE ON A BIG PAINTING. IT LITERALLY PAINTED ITSELF WHILE I WATCHED. THIS PHENOMENA IS RARE AND MYSTERIOUS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TALENT OR EVEN BRAINS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE HAPPEN BUT WHEN IT DOES IT IS AMAZING. IF I COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN I WOULD BE RICH. 

BUT ALAS, IT IS JUST A MYSTERY OR GODS GIFT. WHY HE GIVES IT SOMETIMES AND NOT OTHERS IS BEYOND ME. BUT I KNOW WHEN IT HAPPENS , IT IS GLORIOUS AND NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS LIKE IT. NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. MARCH 17TH

creative group

The reason you have creative groups is usually to use the synergy of the group to boost your confidence in being creative and also to learn new techniques to tap into the right brain. 

There can be a deeper purpose than that that makes creative group into living with all your might. 

To do that you need a directional attitude at the deepest core of your life. 

Without that you are living a meaningless life. 

This is too horrible and wonderful to really comprehend but it is the truth. 

the hardest thing to do

I have found that the door to the best work you have in you is the hardest door to open.It is the door that is so slammed shut that you have to want to open it more than anything to get it to budge. To do your best work you have to change and change is the same thing as pain. Nobody likes to change, everyone likes the path that they are used to and that is the path to the same old same old and it is never never great. great is only through the door marked pain and suffering. This is true on every level of thinking known to man.

Sunday the First of March

I know someone is reading this so I am writing this to you. This is the first day of Silence for the week. As a creativity exercise there is no tv radio or computer watching  for a week. This exercise will be what my group will do next week but I wanted to do it first. I have a goal of getting three good paintings done during this time and writing a few good pages for the group.

I was just thinking how our lives are constantly bombarded with self inflicted noise all day that sometimes you cannot hear yourself think.  This week of silence should be a revelation. I will tell you how it goes