The Flume waterfall, Ausable River, Adirondacks
The Flume waterfall, Ausable River, Adirondacks
Between a Rock and a Wet Place: Keeping Your Art Balance (Online art lesson #62)
Between a Rock and a Wet Place: Keeping Your Art Balance (Online art lesson #62)
The Flume waterfall, Ausable River, Adirondacks
The Flume waterfall, Ausable River, Adirondacks
Lilo, (that was a typo…but I rather like the new shortened version of Lillian and I may continue using it.)
You are the “queen of waterfalls” in my book and you have never been fearful of all the heightened stimulation of a waterfall whereas most of us just panic. A waterfall is not “overload” to you. So an artist must consider what his/her STRENGTH is in order to go with the flow, in order NOT to be swept away by the tides. And, since you were doing a waterfall and the dog you referred to “un-wet” himself with a good body shake, maybe we need to do just as the dog did when we are in an overload situation. We could do a good “all-over body shake” to symbolically shake away the excess so we can be left with a more “centered sense of self.” Think about one’s center core or navel and breathe from that spot instead of the shoulders. (I just timed myself to see how long it took to actually do that….just one round of shake and one deep belly inhale and exhale was less than 15 seconds.) Maybe others have ideas for centering that they could share.
P.S. I just came back from a plein-air paintout and doing TREES and WATER is my comfort level in the overwhelming out of doors. I will send two images that came from my “center” in spite of being around other artists and worrying that there might be bears hiding in the shadows of where I was painting.