This piece is done with my little handy dandy portable water color set, which I love, love, love for traveling.
Again, I don’t know exactly what to make of this one. It’s just another experience of trusting the brush or as one of my students puts it “following orders from headquarters.” I start painting and am often as surprised as anyone to see what, or often WHO shows up.
It’s a great example of what it looks like to simply listen to my intuition (which by the way, is INCREDIBLY bossy!) And that means not knowing where in the heck any particular painting or drawing may be headed.
I begin with some color and then my intuition starts talking to me. Saying things like “OK. Now paint an eye. And another one. Now some blue around the eye. A face would be nice. How about a crown on the head. Now some bubbles coming out of the mouth. That fish needs some teeth.” And on and on.
When I start to get a little anxious and worried about where this is going I just keep saying my mantra which is “The painting is none of my business. The painting is none of my business.”
My only job is to keep moving my hand and let the mystery take me wherever it wants me to go!
LOVE the piece you have created here!!
Gorgeous, brilliant, heartfelt, just like YOU! Love!
Love that mantra! Sometimes I get anxious before the painting is even done and I have to say, “It’s not done…so don’t worry, just keep going, just keep going, just keep going.”
~magick~
Melissa
Awesome mantra!
enjoyed the image above and your story of coming down the stairs on christmas