Since the past year with the pandemic, the urge to create is difficult to sustain, isn't it? I find myself wandering around the studio space, picking up this, rearranging that, wondering what the heck I'm doing.
Sometimes it's good to reflect back on what you, as a creative being, did in the past years. I recall the excitement when I took my first classes -- oil painting, then collage and abstract design, drawing the nude and more. Learning new techniques and using new tools. All quite heady stuff. But now perhaps it's time to return to the basics, to re-establish that initial excitement and wonder?
These are quite simple acrylic paintings, more like quick sketches. Maybe I should refer to them as naive art? But I had such fun working on them, pushing the color and the brush around, adding oil pastel touches after the paint dried. Even now as I look at them, I smile. Kind of reminds one of what it's like to be a child again -- open and easy and carefree.
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| "Smokin' Java" (5x7) |
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| "Intense" (5x7) |
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| "Anjou & Bosc" (5x7) |
So simplicity may be the key here -- keep it simple, use simple tools and maintain that childlike attitude when approaching the canvas or the paper. Easy to write about it; more difficult to maintain it.
As I build up Coral Sky Studio -- yes, I have been working on establishing my presence online at other art venues and social media, but it's been slow -- I hope you'll stop by for a visit and leave a comment.
"Eloquence is spoken through
the labor of hands . . ."
Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
