09 Aug Believer

The blank canvas can terrify you or thrill you.

The variable in the situation is what you literally and figuratively bring to the table.

Some days painting an idea feels like a slog…trudging through thick tar.

Every mark is questioned. Every possible direction feels dangerous.

Other days, painting feels like freedom. Like releasing a pressure valve. Ideas tumbling onto the canvas, surprising, elating.

I vacillate between these two extremes. Some days I can feel where I’m at in terms of mindset before I hit the studio.

If I’m feeling closed off, I move my body. It’s the fastest way to get things going. To ground myself. To wake up my brain to possibility.

But Mindset is haaaaard. It’s learned. It’s practice. In some of us, it’s maybe innate.

To those people, I say how?

What are some things you do to access the “believer”, that carefree dreamer, that knows everything will turn out ok?