Sometimes finishing paintings is like giving birth…
I wonder why that is?
Sometimes when an artist creates it’s as if the messages of angels seem to flow through the fingertips – and then… well, then there are the ‘other times’! Sometimes it is a struggle! Not because the ideas aren’t there and the plan not in place, it’s the execution of said plan that’s a bit illusive.
OK. All the paints are globbed onto the palette ready for action, the water or solvent is ready, the brushes selected and the ‘canvas stare’ commences. After several minutes the brush is dipped and the application is inevitable… brrrrriiiiinggg… oh! Telephone interruption… long chat about absolutely nothing of importance. Several minutes later it’s back to the ‘canvas stare’.
Tic toc, tic toc… it’s too quiet in here, maybe some music… there, that’s better. Canvas stare resumes… hmmm… some tea will help! Yes that’s it, some tea! Tea is made, ‘canvas stare’ resumes… Then finally after several feeble attempts at encouraging the visions in the brain to translate through fingers to canvas the entire effort is abandoned, at least for the day.
“Maybe,” the artist says to herself, “tomorrow will be a better day to paint… I wonder what’s on TV…”
(At least that’s what my giving birth experience was, labor stopped a few times until the final delivery of the creation was enjoyed, although not without a fair amount of pain!)
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Oh, I can certainly relate to this description Kimberly! I’m just lucky if I get to the “blank canvas” part to begin with…
“I think I’ll just check my email real quick, before I get started!”
But totally – sometimes it flows…….. and is just like you said – angels though your fingertips!! I know what you mean!
NO KIDDING!!! I love the “I need music, it’s too quite in here” LOL! Also when you work ALL DAY and end up with a blah piece of work and your whole day feels wasted. But then the magical days come where it flows out as if it was meant to be, and suddenly “WOW, IT”S A BEAUTY”!
You both are so right, life just gets in the way of painting/creating sometimes. All its distractions… That working all day on something and then spending the next 2 days painting over it has to be the worst – talk about false labor!
Well my wish for us this upcoming year is that we all have loads of magical creation days! May the angels speak through our fingers and bless the world with our work!
(That is, of course, after the email is read, the music adjusted, the phone calls answered and the tea made…LOL!)