Full confession folks ... I'm going through a bit of an identity crisis at the moment. If there's such a thing as 'a bit' when it comes to seeing life and work in a completely different, new and fresh way! It started off as a rebranding process when I felt that Floating Lemons (my business = me) was becoming too fragmented ... and then grew into monstrous proportions as I realised that I needed to press pause (or stop!) on everything while I acceped that massive changes had occured and I was no longer the person/artist that I was before. phew.
I'll write more about the process I've been going through if I'm able to, but for the moment I'm on that Pause in order to take a deep breath and figure things out.
I started picking the brushes up in the mornings to just paint anything that came to mind, trying not to impose any preconceptions or limitations on my self. Strangely different art has been emerging, and above is one of the examples, painted today for #the100daychallenge. I might not complete this challenge or manage to do it daily but I'm going to try ... 100 days of art. Not limiting myself to any particular theme as I'm exploring what emerges. I have a feeling I'm going to be surprised by the results.
I'm considering everything I do a preparatory sketch. That's to quieten the very annoying inner editor that still insists on the finished result being perfect! It's happy when I call something a sketch, as 'perfection' no longer needs to be considered and I can relax and play instead. The things we do to fool ourselves. I've ended up quite liking this 'sketch', it seems to describe, strangely enough, what I'm going through. Cheers.
Painted in my MozArt linen-bound sketchbook with Schmincke and Winsor & Newton watercolours.
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