So wonderful to see your creativity flowing into beautiful curves and character dearest @emma-h2 - I love this octopus: it gives such a lovely feeling of lush active limbs circling around each other!!
YES to being 'absolute over-lord' in our Art. - it is such a vital aspect of discerning our unique path and inimitable visual language, being able to act fluently, as it were, and making big decisions like yes, cutting a painting in half or burning a painting completely!
I regularly did big clear-outs during my more active painting career: bonfires of paintings which were just not resonating as I wanted them too. Quite an important event when moving house/ country, and having limited space in my car. :-)
But also, just painting over, collaging or scraping off of an area of a painting, absolutely: this is such an important dynamic aspect of creation - being able to take out as well as add on. I like when a painting comes more into the 3 dimensional... And also, water colour being so notoriously hard to over-paint, eh - cutting the top off it seems quite appropriate.
Many blessings as you continue to create, dear friend!
Oh it is so refreshing to read that I'm not the only one that does this - I think it's important to express the freedom of choice we have with art. Bonfires? Gosh, I never thought of that. I think that releasing that back into the universe is a good send off.
I am not the kind of person that takes years to complete a piece. I think that's because I work with my moods and emotions and as they are so fluid, moving with life and all the various things that feed into that - I feel that when the mood hits, there's no way I can recreate that same energy later on. It's perhaps a strange thing but Art., to me has a very close connection to where I am as a being right now. I've looked at pieces that I've done years ago and realised I'm in a totally different place than I was then.
It feels so good to get into a flow of making something again, I've missed it.
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