Sunday, April 24, 2011

Seriously Blocked

I have been seriously blocked for an entire year! Paralyzed! Negative negative negative. What to do? I've been thinking of going to the Chihuli exhibit at the MFA for inspiration. I don't want to do any more trees with creatures in them. I want to work kind of like Adria Arch does. Copy her style and then go off on a new tangent. The theme would be celebration in honor of my first grandchild. I can just see the paint: large and lively brightly colored shapes with highlights and shadows and then doodle like lines overlapping in playful ways. Of course what I see in my head is usually so different from what eventually arrives on the canvas. But you have start with some sort of idea. Or do you? Maybe not. Maybe the trick is to work like Chihuli who seems to let the paint itself take over. Maybe I'll try that? At least I'm imagining the process even though I'm not doing it.