"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls" - Pablo Picasso I wanted to show you some of my new work I've created recently. I went through a creative dry patch over the past couple of weeks, after my new series of ocean paintings. I was SO hard on myself for not being able to paint. Probably because I'm used to painting every few days, so to go a few weeks without expressing myself was awful. I felt all trapped and stuffy. I also got panicky that I was never going to feel inspired again...LOL! I know...as if that would ever happen!
Once I stopped panicking, that was when the ideas came back. It was right before we went away for a short holiday, and I'd written off painting as I needed to pack etc. It seems as soon as you stop yourself from creating, thats when the need to create comes the strongest. So instead of doing any packing, I painted for the next five hours until half one in the morning. (Oops!) This is why I thought the title, "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls", from Pablo Picasso was perfect. Painting after such a dry patch, made me feel like I could breathe again. And it actually felt like the dust had been washed off me. Especially as I was painting splashing waves.
I loosened up with trying out an abstract piece. I love abstract art and I've never been able to do it. I feel like it's so creative as it isn't even influenced by an 'object' it just looks like feelings on a canvas. I quickly discovered the fact that, I should leave abstract paintings, to the abstract artists. But, i'm glad I tried, because I felt like it gave me these amazing ideas of painting waves in an abstract way. I seriously recommend 'loosening' up with this method if you're feeling at a creative block. I cut up my favourite colours from a magazine, stuck them in my sketchbook and used it as inspiration. Again I didn't really like the outcome, or enjoy the process. But it just goes to show that if your paintings aren't working out, try a different style.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls
As I said, the process of creating this abstract gave me the idea to use a palette knife and fluid paint only, for an ocean painting. When I made the first one, I found I couldn't stop and now there are 13 wave paintings in this series already! Hope you like them and I'd love some feedback from you, to see what you think.
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