Creativity?
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cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
It involves painting thin layers of pigment, one at a time, on the porcelain, letting each dry and soak into the porcelain itself.
Tuesday 6th
This entry reminds me of doing artwork with children, whom, the younger they are, the more 'heavy handed' they are with paint and glue, and glitter and all kinds of other things. Well... maybe that's not true, maybe it's that they are more heavy handed because of their inexperience, their developing skill or something. I changed that because – thinking about myself and my own ability (or lack thereof) in artwork – I realised that I can often be as heavy handed as the children I have taught in the past, (and now). I'm unsubtle with the materials I try to use, not to mention I can't really draw to save my life... but I've always wanted to be able to. I can see the picture in my head, but getting it from my head onto the expressive medium is another matter entirely.
These days I'm unsubtle in life too... going about things like a bull in a china shop...or like one of those little deer that stray into someone's shop or house and then can't get out, and that made me wonder if perhaps as part of my meditation, if I shouldn't start trying to do some drawing of some kind... see what come out.
I've also thought, more than on just this occasion, of asking Mir to help me to learn to draw things – not exactly giving me art lessons, but... kinda art lessons yeah. I've already asked her to help me with photography, and maybe we'll get around to taking photography lessons together some time soon, though she is already very good at photography – I really wish I had her eye. You should see her picture of one of our rats that was featured on the Big Weather section of the morning news programme on ABC. You can find it here
The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or touched...but are
felt in the heart.
--Helen Keller
It involves painting thin layers of pigment, one at a time, on the porcelain, letting each dry and soak into the porcelain itself.
Tuesday 6th
This entry reminds me of doing artwork with children, whom, the younger they are, the more 'heavy handed' they are with paint and glue, and glitter and all kinds of other things. Well... maybe that's not true, maybe it's that they are more heavy handed because of their inexperience, their developing skill or something. I changed that because – thinking about myself and my own ability (or lack thereof) in artwork – I realised that I can often be as heavy handed as the children I have taught in the past, (and now). I'm unsubtle with the materials I try to use, not to mention I can't really draw to save my life... but I've always wanted to be able to. I can see the picture in my head, but getting it from my head onto the expressive medium is another matter entirely.
These days I'm unsubtle in life too... going about things like a bull in a china shop...or like one of those little deer that stray into someone's shop or house and then can't get out, and that made me wonder if perhaps as part of my meditation, if I shouldn't start trying to do some drawing of some kind... see what come out.
I've also thought, more than on just this occasion, of asking Mir to help me to learn to draw things – not exactly giving me art lessons, but... kinda art lessons yeah. I've already asked her to help me with photography, and maybe we'll get around to taking photography lessons together some time soon, though she is already very good at photography – I really wish I had her eye. You should see her picture of one of our rats that was featured on the Big Weather section of the morning news programme on ABC. You can find it here
