Ebb and Flow

100 Day Project Day 49

Creativity ebbs and flows, and today the ebb of the last few days turned into flow. Part of theat is just the way it is, and part of it was playing some wee tricks with a timetable and timers.

I didn’t keep to the timetable, and I ditched the timer after the first half that I was actually painting, and working on the oil painting, not in a sketchbook, but the timetable and the timer weren’t the point, getting me over the procrastination hurdle on at least one painting was the point, and it worked.

There is a sweet spot, a zone, that I get into once I manage to actually get going, and that is where the good stuff happens, where I feel like I may not be the best artist in the world (no-one is) but I am improving with every session.

I have noticed a few times while doing this 100 day blog project that I find myself observing the way I have set up a belief in my head, and then I keep having to work through it, prove myself wrong, and discard it.

That was what was going on with this little painting. I was telling myself I cannot mix skin tones. I cannot mix skintones. I cannot mix skintones. In the end I think I did OK with them. She ended up looking younger than I intended, and I may go back in and do some more, but I got a lot out of this little practise exercise.

oil on canvas 6×6″

Til the morn,

Suzanne