Artworks by Jyne: Painting on tree Stumps: Honouring the Endings

Artworks by Jyne: Painting on tree Stumps: Honouring the Endings: Painting on Tree Stumps: Honouring the Endings Tree stumps..the ones we’ve taken down. The ones we’ve wanted to end or to stop growing....

Painting on tree Stumps: Honouring the Endings

Painting on Tree Stumps: Honouring the Endings

Tree stumps..the ones we’ve taken down. The ones we’ve wanted to end or to stop growing.

Metaphorically every stump I see is the end of something.

Something no longer wanted. Something no longer alive.

Endings can be sad. Endings can be painful.

I saw the emptiness and decided to make something beautiful. Cement the ending. Honour the experience. Honour the ending.

The paint itself can end the growth. The painting itself can give it a burial.

Everything changes. Everything ends. Everything has a cycle.

Even dead tree stumps can become a work of art.

What ending do you want to honour?

A tree, a life, a relationship, a time in your life, a habit, a dream..an illusion?

Want it to be meaningful?

Go paint a tree stump.

Remember every ending makes for a new beginning

Happy Creating!

Artworks by Jyne: PAINTING BLINDFOLDED:A Lesson in Letting Go of con...

Artworks by Jyne: PAINTING BLINDFOLDED:A Lesson in Letting Go of con...: PAINTING BLINDFOLDED.. A Lesson in Letting go of control Black & White, Yes or No? Always wanting answers. Death & taxes are ...

PAINTING BLINDFOLDED:A Lesson in Letting Go of control

PAINTING BLINDFOLDED..

A Lesson in Letting go of control

Black & White, Yes or No? Always wanting answers. Death & taxes are possibly the only ‘for sure” things in life. I’ve always wanted guarantees and absolutes. That things turn out the way you want them to. The scenarios you create in your mind whether it be a well thought-out painting, your career, your relationships, dreams etc, many, if not most  don’t turn out like you wanted them to, hoped they would, imagined they could be. Letting go & trusting that things turn out exactly the way they should. Crazy concept & hard to grasp. The letting go of control.

The ideas in your mind reach through your hand that holds the paint brush you use to create. It most often doesn’t turn out the way you thought. It can be so frustrating! I’ve walked away from many an art piece, hidden the canvas, so frustrated I can’t make what I wanted happen! I usually drag it back out, seeing it for what it is and just being in the moment with it. Picking back up the brush & starting to work with what is. Letting the brush and colours do their thing. I’m rarely disappointed. I rarely remember this.

When I get in the state of “wanting”, of putting up barricades and barriers to try to change & control the ‘river” of life, I put on the blindfold. I put my brushes and hands in the paints and go for it! I’m in the moment creating. When the blindfold comes off there are no straight lines or perfect circles. There is beauty and awe. No disappointments.

Remember this; as much as we want to have control over life, people, places, dreams, circumstance & painting, no one really wants a “paint by numbers” canvas as a life.

Happy creating!

  

Artworks by Jyne: Sparking Creativity

Artworks by Jyne: Sparking Creativity: Sparking Creativity www.artworksbyjyne.com After a long, treacherous, never ending winter there are signs that Spring is emerging! T...

Sparking Creativity

Sparking Creativity

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After a long, treacherous, never ending winter there are signs that Spring is emerging! The smell of dampness, rain and an ache in the bones that is hard to shake…but you don’t care because you know there are better days to come.

What to do when Winter has drained all your creative energy?  When sparks left over from the past are non-existent, put out intentionally or unintentionally. No sparks. Not even the small signs of Spring are enough.

The idea of ‘Spring Cleansing’, of ‘Spring Cleaning’ comes to mind. Getting rid of ‘stuff’. If your mind, your heart, your home are filled with ideas, people & things that no longer have a place in your heart its hard to let anything new in. Empty & let go. Be brutal. Clean house on all levels. Let go of dust covered mementos that no longer have meaning, let go of people that drain or take rather then feed you, let go of old ideas and plans you will never get to. Do it for everything: clothes, books, projects, people.

If it doesn’t bring you joy anymore let it go. If its something “you may get to someday’ or you are holding on to hopes that ‘something may happen one day’..let it go. If it’s meant to happen it will. Bigger, brighter and better.

They are all things that take up space in your psyche and your environment. Clutter.

 Creativity needs ‘new’. It needs space to develop. Like a fire needs to breathe so does creativity. So do you.

Give yourself the gift of ‘letting go’ and emptying out. As hard as letting go can be holding on can be much harder. Happy Spring..and getting some creativity sparked!  

Artworks by Jyne: How to get your Creative Mojo Back!

Artworks by Jyne: How to get your Creative Mojo Back!:        Tips on how to get your creative mojo back   After months of darkness, cold days, frigid nights, no sun  and an incredible desire ...