Sitting down at my desk combing through papers, I discovered a piece of work that I abandon ages ago. I can look at an unfinished painting or drawing with fresh eyes, such discoveries fill me with the inspiration to finish what I started. Welcome back!
A windows daydream… Water color, pen on paper.
#CED2014
I have all good intentions to create, to draw out the ideas swimming in my mind. Over the course of the day life happens and I slowly dismiss all my creative nudges. At the end of the day when I didn’t make the time to do what I love, I am grumpy and irritable. And this brings me to the dreaded blank canvas, the one I stare at on a daily basis. My goal is to allow myself one minute, one stroke of the brush one line of the pencil at a time to make my art. Some days a few minutes is all I have, and by allowing myself to enjoy the process of beginning maybe that is all I need.
-where the white blank canvas lives…..
Inspiration comes in many forms, the following is a list of recent books I found helpful and thought provoking:
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Sound of Paper, by Julia Cameron
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Holding on to summer a little longer. My September vacation at Ocean City, MD, was great, perfect weather and had a fun time with family. This trip I packed my art supplies and was determined to sketch some on the beach. Every morning I would wake at 6am and head to the beach. I watched the sunrise and I sketched- 3 pictures were done in oil pastel on paper, a quick rendition of the rising sun, each day a little different. I enjoyed the quiet reflective time just me the beach and my sketchbook.
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My sister at the beach, quick pen sketch from my sketchbook.
The past few weeks, I haven’t touched a brush or pencil to produce anything creative, though I have every intention to paint and draw, I just haven’t. But there was this little voice within me that just kept repeating, like a broken record, just pick up a brush, just paint something, anything.. Which happened every time i entered my art space.. So I just gave in one day, grabbed the first thing I saw, a foam board, acrylic paints and just started painting. No fussing, no thinking, just painted. And within the day produced this piece. Sometimes we have to please the small voice within.
Decided to sketch some while watching TV..
August came to an end.. so my last drawing for the month.
Well i bought a new set of oil pastels, was like a kid with a new toy. Same day I created a quick sketch.. goodbye august, you were a good month, a little too hot but very fun!.
jennifer barrile 