Exploring Creativity
It’s definitely a good day for a good day. We had a glorious sunrise this fine Mugshot Monday. The clouds like colorful rippled sand on the beach as the tide rolls out.
This week in Studio BE brings a focus on writing with some short bursts of paint play. St. Patrick’s Day looms and my search for four leaf clovers begins in earnest.
What’s on your creativity table today or this week?
Day 44 of The 100 Day Project.
Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked, and understood.
But it doesn’t matter, because the people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side, and you’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward.
Instead of liked, you’re going to be loved.
Instead of understood, you’re going to be seen.
All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.
Let it go.
Day 37/100 of The 100 Day Project.
“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations
It’s Monday and time for another Mugshot.
Perfect is Boring is the perfect mantra for creating art. Especially continuous line blind contour drawings. In pen.
Have a creative Monday.
Cheers!
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration.
Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
May your Monday lead to a new Begin.
Cheers.
Excerpted from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.