Sunday, March 3, 2013

Intuitive Painting Progress and Sketching My World Day 3

Finally, finally I feel like I've had a breakthrough in my intuitive painting adventure.  Up until now I've only come up with pieces of paintings I felt were starting to work but not one entire painting came together until today.  I was doing my usual mark making, turning the canvas a lot and stepping back to see what might surface when I saw a really great bird bending over to get a drink right there in the marks on my canvas.  I tried not to show too much excitement...didn't want to scare him away!

I started coaxing him out onto the canvas as I painted some blue sky around his pudgy little body.  I just have to show you what it looked like at first, which is crazy funny to me.  My husband was confused as to why I was so excited to find a big yellow sausage in the imagery of my painting.



I took a break after a bit and sketched some bird gestures.  (It seemed the only logical thing to do.)  Here they are...I'll count them as today's Sketching My World sketches.


By the way, that's what I've decided to call my project for the month of March.   I will post sketches each day of the things I see and experience and call it Sketching My World.  Birds abound in our woods, so I really need to hone my ability to sketch them. 


As I went back to the canvas I re-sketched the bird a bit and added concentric circles where his beak dips into the water.  Eventually here's what emerged on the canvas.  I still have work to do but I love the direction it's going!


Sometimes when I watch songbirds drinking from our birdbath I am struck by how vulnerable they are in that position...their gaze turned downward, absorbed in the task at hand.  I always worry that the cat will sneak up and nab one of them.  (Thankfully I have never actually seen this happen but it certainly could.)

The idea of the bird being so vulnerable yet so free brought some words to mind so I scratched them into the paint:

He watches over me...


and meets every need.


"Because he loves me," says the LORD, 
"I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."
Psalm 91"14

And then it occurred to me; I am that little bird... free because I am loved and cared for... free because someone much bigger and stronger than I watches over me when I am vulnerable.  So my first intuitive painting really turned out to be a self portrait.  How about that? 

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20 comments:

  1. Oh... it´s wonderful, love the colors and the words, really beautiful

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  2. Beautiful painting, Janice! I love it. Your bird is sweet + I love the ripply water. ;)

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  3. Love this! Your colors are amazing!

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  4. It is beautiful. Love the colors on the canvas.

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  5. Janice, I love the process you went through and how everything came together so beautifully. Your painting and the words are absolutely beautiful.

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  6. Beautifully done! Makes me long for spring and the newness in growth He provides.

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  7. Oh My Janice! You brought tears of joy while I read this and viewed your gorgeous painting!!! Oh MY!!!!! I am so happy for you! xo Kathie

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  8. Thank you for sharing. It is beautiful. What a wonderful course that was with Flora!

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  9. Beautiful work you have done, love the little bird :)

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  10. I love the colors and love how you painted the ripples in the water! We've been without internet for a few days so I've just now been able to respond to what you commented about my fox. Can't believe how much we all rely on technology today.

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  11. wow! i love this! i love how it looks, how you described your experience with it, and how you decided to write something on it. thank you so much for sharing all of that! totally wonderful!

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  12. This is so wonderful to see. I LOVE that you have incorporated local birds into your painting, it has so much more meaning to me and hopefully to you. That you can do this and it actually helped your intuitive painting is just a blessing. I believe you were being watched over when you painted this.

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  13. Oh he's marvelous Janice....and I love your sketches of birdies too! xox

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  14. What a wonderful, heartfelt blog post! Not only am I very in love with your painting, but your post blessed my heart so much!!! You have a treasure there!!!
    HuGGs!
    Debi

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  15. This is just stunning Janice - i love the journey this painting has gone through + i love your project this month! Such a great idea! Kirst x

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  16. Janice this is a wonderful piece!! I've loved reading all through your different posts, you got me laughing when you mentioned your husband wondering at your excitement over the yellow sausage!! My husband tends to wonder at my art too and make his funny comments. Anyway your bird turned out so beautiful and what an inspiring piece, shows how it's so good to just go with the flow, or stop and wait and be patient and see what emerges!

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  17. Just lovely, Janice and your writing is just the icing on the cake! I love how this turned out. It's always amazing to me how a painting reveals itself only when it's complete and often not really until I sit down to write about it. I have come to think of art as prayer.

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  18. This is so beautiful Janice! I love how you did the water, and that bird is so sweet. Isn't it great when you've been struggling with a painting and all of a sudden you "see" things? That moment makes all the struggles worthwhile. And no: husbands don't get it ... ;-)

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  19. Ein wunderschönes, berührendes Bild und ganz hervorragend gestaltet. Ich liebe es.
    Intuitive Kunst ist immer ein Stück von Einem selbst und drückt die innersten Gefühle aus, die man mit Worten oft nicht zu sagen vermag.
    Liebe Grüße
    Sabine

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