intuitive painting and Carissa Paige

Good morning lovely people!

Don't run away yet -

give me the chance to explain this mess.

:-)

I love Friday nights.

I often feel more creative on Friday nights

although i'm  not sure why.

Maybe just the letting go of the week,

good music on the CBC,

knowing i'm sleeping in the next morning...

whatever it is, I ride the wave.

So when I got the sudden urge to paint intuitively,

I sat myself down and began.

Started with a horizontal canvas (3ft x 2ft).

I love small canvases, but somehow for me,

intuitive painting is more fun on a larger scale.

Then i flipped it around

and saw the outline of a face.

(do you think we see what we want to see?)

i love faces, so there you go.

So i carried on vertically

and filled in a few spaces,

with one colour or another.

In the end, I kinda like it,

even if the face looks like an alien.

(or as my son said, "looks like Avatar")

The important thing is, it was so much fun to do.

So liberating.

And no, there was no wine involved. ;-)

This process of doing a painting in layers is often surprising.

I'm nowhere near mastering this like Flora Bowley,

but i really don't think it matters much what the end result is.

That's the beauty of it.

To start a painting without any idea where it's gonna go,

to have a blast in the middle,

and more often than not,

to be pleasantly surprised in the end.

On another note,

yesterday was like Christmas here when i got this in the mail.

I bought this print (OWN YOUR STORY) by Carissa Paige on Etsy

(thank you Danielle Daniel for giving me her name!)

and Carissa's package arrived yesterday,

filled with such love.

Besides the beautiful print, I get this as well.

A few hand written notes, and more samples of her wonderful work.

This may not be standard for her to send to everyone

so don't go harassing her if you purchase something

and don't get the same package. ;-)

I just wanted to say how nice it is

to be surprised now and then

and how wonderful to see

that there are still people out there

who spread goodness to the world.

:-)