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| 'Roadside Inspiration' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $225 |
Everything is moving right along. My weekly blog themes are slowly rolling out and I am excited and inspired by them. I have to work to find paintings and ideas to fit the themes and that in itself is filling me with inspiration!
Welcome to Inspiration Monday! Why not start the week out with some inspiration? On Mondays I will share a quote or practice that I find inspiring. It will be something that will hopefully guide my week and encourage greater creativity. So the big question is.....How does one get inspired to paint or find something that inspires a painting? Here is a great answer from Matisse.
"Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working" Henri Matisse
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| The underpainting on Canson Mi-Teintes paper moonstone color |
In fact while I was researching artist quotes on inspiration, quite a few said something similar. Inspiration happens when you are actually creating. It happened to me today. I was faced with an empty easel and a pile of reference photos. I couldn't decide what to paint. I guess I wasn't feeling particularly inspired by any one of them. I puttered around the studio finding excuses to start a painting. Finally I just picked a photo. It was a scene I loved but it didn't grab me right away.
Once I started painting things changed dramatically. All of the sudden I was engrossed in the scene. I recalled all the details of the day. I felt pulled into the scene and it became a part of me. Two hours of painting had passed and I realized something......I was inspired!
Just starting the painting was enough. Once I was working the floodgates of inspiration was opened.
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| The pastels used for this painting....Terry Ludwig and Diane Townsend |
Source: How to Get Inspired to Paint
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