Artist Jennifer Sanchez
So sorry, it's been awhile. So long in fact, that I thought I might not be coming back. This space is dedicated to my artistic explorations, and to be honest, I have had my mind elsewhere. Mostly, I have been completely focused on health, work and family. And because my work includes an incredible amount of art & creativity, I find that I spend little time in my own personal art world. I don't beat myself up too badly about it. From what I have seen in my work as an intuitive consultant... the easiest way to manifest, is to relax, allow and let yourself feel into what you truly have energy for. For a while there, I had no energy for my painting. In fact, I need space from "thinking about painting" because it certainly wasn't helping me to paint! ha ha, not really. So I gave it space. However, recently it has come back in again when I saw that a favorite illustrator/artist was teaching an on-line painting class (STRUCTURE - aha!) So I signed up, ordered the new paints I had been "thinking about" for a friggin year, and have been enjoying the getting ready process as I set up my painting station in my office. (It's too damn cold to paint in the studio in the winter.) I found the artist above because she is the artist/inspiration for this weeks painting topic. What I like about Miss Sanchez's work is the combo between geometric shapes and messy painting. I need to let a little more mess & experimentation into my painting. In fact, I did a painting for my Wild Woman book club project and my daughter painted on top of it! (I got mad.) But as I sat with her "marks" on the face of my carefully rendered BlueBeard (representing the psyche's predator) for a few days... I thought they were pretty perfect. And, after seeing Miss Sanchez's work, I thought I could take it to the next level. Ba-humbug to the Predator of Perfection!
So now I am starting my GET YOUR PAINT ON class. This is week one. So far, it's fun to be in another on-line creativity class. I really enjoyed the one I took last summer. I'll be posting to Flik=ckr on Sundays, and most likely I will be talking about it here. Finally, something to talk about here! What are you trying on?
