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NEW PAINTING Spooked

 

"Spooked," 16" x 20" x 1/2", mixed media painting on gallery wrapped canvas, $649 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. I accept paypal, personal checks and payment plans. Inquiries may always come to me.

I came into the studio this morning, but had no focus or desire to create. It's been fading as these weeks have toiled on, and I actually went offline for a good part of the weekend, in an effort to minimize doom scrolling and keep my morale up.

Usually I can pick up a brush and get something started, even if my heart isn't in it,  but today was different. Nothing showed up. So I busied myself with paperwork and correspondence and other admin tasks and tried to gently call up a visual while getting other things done.

I kept seeing black scribbles. Fierce and angry ones. Tightly snarled, dark and fearful. Threatening.

I decided to give into them. Just grab a tool and bring them to life. No expectations, just giving myself permission to make marks. It was hard. Ugly. Raw. I found a creative flow where I stopped caring and just painted. I actually closed my eyes and scribbled on this piece several times. It didn't matter where the marks ended up - just that they got out.

This is a tough painting to look at, but it is what I'm feeling right now. And there's a certain beauty to the honest strength of the emotion. I realize now that the creation of it was like a much needed hard and ugly cry. 

And that this piece may have given me the key I have been seeking in investing more emotion into my work.

Thanks, as always, for following along on my art journey,
Warmly, Kim

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