I know...I've been there! I don't know why, but it happens...too much input, don't know where to begin. The best thing to do in a case like this...JUST DO IT!
You have been in transition and under stress for a long while now. They both take a lot of emotional and physical energy. As you settle in, rest, get your feet on the ground, get used to your new normal, I suspect the urge to paint will push at you. Because at your very core your are an artist. xo Leslie
Hi Mary, I haven't responded in awhile as I'm just as lazy about art blogging these days as I am about painting. I've given up asking why I'm not painting. I figure the inspiration is building and I will paint when the time comes. I love the texture in these shots.
Inspiration drives creativity and creativity comes from desire to do what pleases us. We all have dry spells for various reasons in life. Time heals all and patience is a cure. Hugs
31/31: Patricia Larsen
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31 artists...31 days. Spend every day of March with me at The Altered Page
to meet the 31 spotlight artists in my book *The Pulse of Mixed Media:
Secrets...
New Terrarriums
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Today, I made some terrariums. It is something I first wanted to do yearsdecades ago.
The largest one (above) will come to sit beside me at work.
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*Alize Got Adopted!*
Five and a half weeks ago, we pulled a tiny sick yorkie female out of a
high kill shelter, where she was going to be euthanized becaus...
To paint or not to paint
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I usually work on cradled panels or gallery wrapped canvases and don't
frame. I like my work to look like objects and I want the eye to wander not
to be c...
Dancing with the Canvas
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For the past couple of weeks I have stared at these two paintings, waiting
for them to tell me whether or not they are finished. I haven’t wanted to
talk a...
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*looking through the tree's etching*
So my beloved walking track of 25+ years is being bulldozed into a 5m fire
break...I'm starting to feel this anxi...
Blossoming III
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Mixed media on stretched canvas.
22x28
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom." Anai...
Lucky
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My son posted this for me today, for my birthday. If you can read this
without weeping (tears of joy and affirmation) then it’s because you are
not me. Luc...
Let There Be Light on Opening Night
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*"Let There Be Light" 30" x 12" collage, acrylic, graphite, ink and chalk
on canvas by Crystal Neubauer*
I spent yesterday at Perfical Sense Studio han...
The Pulse
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I am really excited to share that I was invited to be a featured artist in
Seth Apter's new book The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secret...
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There are two questions that I get asked over and over so I thought I would
answer them here on my blog. The first question is, 'what colors of paint'
do I...
Confident Color Workshop was a blast!
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I had a great time in Ft. Lauderdale last week. This workshop for the Gold
Coast Watercolor Society is on my list of all-time favorites! The weather
was f...
Any Small Thing
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The poets know of morning sun,
falling snow flake and the things we circle around,
like the book ends of birth and death
and the space in between. ...
Unresolved
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This is an old piece I made probably 8 or so years ago - a textured pendant
strung on coral beads with steel findings - I made everything but the coral
be...
Reality Check...
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*Unfinished Rocks - 48x38*
Last week we learned what a TIA is... Joel had a minor stroke and we never
suspected he was at risk. This makes you focus on pr...
The Art of Illusion
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transits 122, photograph “I no longer worry whether a painting is about
something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat
surface, of...
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I know...I've been there! I don't know why, but it happens...too much input, don't know where to begin. The best thing to do in a case like this...JUST DO IT!
You have been in transition and under stress for a long while now. They both take a lot of emotional and physical energy.
As you settle in, rest, get your feet on the ground, get used to your new normal, I suspect the urge to paint will push at you. Because at your very core your are an artist.
xo
Leslie
Wow! These are wonderful pieces of art in their own right.
Mary--
Awesome inspiration...
Please, if not for you,
for us -- create, my dear.
A new year, a new you?
You are missed!
DD
Hi Mary,
I haven't responded in awhile as I'm just as lazy about art blogging these days as I am about painting. I've given up asking why I'm not painting. I figure the inspiration is building and I will paint when the time comes. I love the texture in these shots.
Inspiration drives creativity and creativity comes from desire to do what pleases us.
We all have dry spells for various reasons in life. Time heals all and patience is a cure.
Hugs
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