Art In the Moment

This month's arts carnival is on "feeling in the moment." I have had trouble for a long while now on doing something like this. I am so held back by that "inner critic."

This is not unlike images I have made before. It incorporates "colors" that identify with different aspects of myself and attempts to blend them. In all honesty, this is not an image about feeling as much as it was an image about just doing some kind of art without much overlay of thinking.

How I did this is fairly simple. You can do it digitally, like I did here on an iPad with the Inspire Pro App, or with real paints or pastels. The first step was to make a boundary. I find I need to have boundaries a lot of times to help me feel contained. Then I laid down the colors in short strokes, ensuring that there was some transparency (equivalent I guess to adding water to real paint). The last step was to increase the brush size, remove the paint from the brush, and work back and forth laterally in the same way I would do it with pastels.

I am still trying to go back to basics, the nuts and bolts that I wrote about 2 weeks ago. It is hard to believe that amount of time has gone by. It has just flown by.

If you have been holding off on submitting to this month's Expressive Arts Carnival, you can submit through Friday and I will publish on Saturday.