I really need to start writing these blogs earlier in the day. Feeling tired 💤. So let’s hope I can still put together a few sentences. I wrote my morning pages earlier in the day today, I didn’t quite manage to write without interruption but I guess that’s life with other people around. I’m starting to enjoy the writing more, I even look forward to it a little, although it still feels like a task I must get done or it’s on my mind I haven’t done it. But that’s the same with the painting and writing the blog too. I usually start writing with what’s immediately in my mind or what’s going on around me and the events of the day. It’s amazing how this leads me onto subjects I often didn’t realise were in my consciousness. Today I wrote about the dreams I had last night because they were strange and quite vivid. I met a stranger in my dream that told me three important things about who he was, and I said that the same things were true of me, and I really wish I could remember what those things were now. For the last page I tried a bit of an experiment, I’d heard Lee Harris talking about channelling in an interview, and he said people think it’s something strange but he described an exercise where you write ‘what does my soul want me to know?’ at the top of a page, then focus above the head on the crown Chakra, and write the words you ‘hear’. So I gave that a try and to my surprise filled a whole page with positive reassuring messages to myself.
I did my painting in the afternoon, I sat and stood in my favourite utility room studio again. It was a lovely sunny day today but it was actually too hot to paint sitting outside. I started on the right page and covered the page with water. I then painted into it using a small brush and found myself making wavy lines reminiscent of a tree. I then used a lot of the same colours on the left side. I mixed up a dark colour and didn’t use any black paint. I remembered my A-level Art teacher in school not allowing us to use black paint and making us mix up a dark colour instead, so that’s what I did today. I layered up slightly different shades of this dark colour and the design started to form around it. Whenever I paint or design something, I always innately find myself balancing colours, structures and composition, I’m not sure if this is the right thing with intuitive painting as it can trigger my inner perfectionist, which is something I became aware of today. And I’m really trying to paint without making value judgements, it’s difficult, I’m not sure I’ll ever fully release that. I enjoyed mixing more subtle colours today and using a smaller brush. I was uneasy about leaving so much of the page unpainted on, but I reached a point where I felt the painting was finished. I didn’t spend very long painting on the right page, but spent a lot of time and concentration on the left page. See image below.
I did my painting in the afternoon, I sat and stood in my favourite utility room studio again. It was a lovely sunny day today but it was actually too hot to paint sitting outside. I started on the right page and covered the page with water. I then painted into it using a small brush and found myself making wavy lines reminiscent of a tree. I then used a lot of the same colours on the left side. I mixed up a dark colour and didn’t use any black paint. I remembered my A-level Art teacher in school not allowing us to use black paint and making us mix up a dark colour instead, so that’s what I did today. I layered up slightly different shades of this dark colour and the design started to form around it. Whenever I paint or design something, I always innately find myself balancing colours, structures and composition, I’m not sure if this is the right thing with intuitive painting as it can trigger my inner perfectionist, which is something I became aware of today. And I’m really trying to paint without making value judgements, it’s difficult, I’m not sure I’ll ever fully release that. I enjoyed mixing more subtle colours today and using a smaller brush. I was uneasy about leaving so much of the page unpainted on, but I reached a point where I felt the painting was finished. I didn’t spend very long painting on the right page, but spent a lot of time and concentration on the left page. See image below.
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