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I was stuck and couldn’t decide what to paint. I wanted to play, to create, but nothing was inspiring me. I was looking for the inspiration before I started, a huge flaw in my thinking. Sure, it is great to be inspired before starting, but that wasn’t happening today.
So what did I do to get myself unstuck? I trusted it would come eventually. Without any clue of where I was going, I put big blobs of paint on the palette, set up a kids easel outside, and a clipped up a big sheet of paper. Still zero inspiration.
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Blank pages do not impress my muse one bit. She wants me to have some skin in the game before she sprinkles her magic dust. I had to start doing something, so I made a messy circle. Which led to more marks.
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Before I realized it, I was inspired by the flowers in the garden. Those flowers had been in front of me the whole time, but it wasn’t until I started taking action that they became the inspiration for the play.
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By the end of the play, I was happily lost in the rainbow, watching the colors layer on top of each other and feeling the freedom in loose scribbly painting.
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Turns out Pablo Picasso was right, “Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.” Or playing!
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Yes! Saying yes to the no inspiration is the inspiration itself! xox
I so relate to this…often inspiration eludes me until I pick up the color and start to play! Love your outcome! Thanks!
Thank you for posting your work. I cannot tell you how often I have set in front of an empty page in my art journal without a clue of why I even bothered to open it. At some point, I pick a color and that page come to life. Thank you for sharing your work with us. I love your approach to making “prettythings”. Watching you give yourself permission to play is helping me ease up on my need for exact structure and purpose.