Finding my balance

It's funny how quickly your life can tilt in only one direction. I feel as though I've been on a slippery slope going downhill and I awoke today with the revelation that my life is way off balance. I've been working for endless hours with hardly a moment to come up for air. Yes, I'm doing design, which I love. But...what in my life led me to be a designer?
It's the core of who I am. I am a creator, a problem solver and an experimentalist. My passion is color. My other passion is pattern. My other passion is paint. All kinds of paint, including pastels. And, it occurs to me today, that I have not really, seriously had a paint brush in my hands for a VERY long while. It's what I'm missing. Creating for no one but ME. Not the customers, not my manufacturers, just ME. What I want to draw, what comes from within, authentic art.

So, each week, one day per week, I'm painting. That's that. It's officially on my calendar, scheduled in. I'm going to the art supply store tomorrow while I'm out and going to pick up some fresh mediums, a few new canvases and some fresh, new brushes. (The two hundred or so I own are not quite enough!).

I'll be using this blog as a creative journal and I'll be demonstrating techniques and showing my art. I hope you'll stop in each week and be inspired to find your authentic creative voice.

Comments

[Candice Windham]

Brenda,
I feel just the same. There are times when I just want to paint or draw or design just for me. If only I didn't have this commitment sword of Damocles hanging over my head!
Enjoy those new brushes!
Candice Windham
Brighton, TN

[Joy Hall]

This is so neat! Saturdays are my days to work on something totally different also. The best things result!

[Violette]

thanks for sharing your step by steps Brenda......it was exciting to see your painting coming alive!

Love, Violette

[Joyce Shelton]

Brenda,
I couldn't have said this better. It's as if you spoke directly from my heart and soul. My friend, Sue Zipkin led me to your beautiful site and I will continue to follow you on your quest to make real art! I work in all mediums as well and it's been way too long since I just painted for the sake of painting. Thanks for the newfound inspiration! Of course, now I've begun a blog (still very new and not much on there yet)... wondering how I'm going to fit this into my schedule. Love your work!
Joyce Shelton