Painting on a regular basis seems not unlike shadow boxing to me, a 'training' method that warms me up to gradually increase my creative heart rate and prepare me to absorb and redirect energy to great advantage when inspiration 'throws a punch' in my direction.
Today's time in the studio could not have been any more satisfying than landing a solid uppercut right in the solar plexus of a sparring partner (does my metaphorical meandering have any connection whatsoever to actual boxing?)(or art?!).
I have not been painting on a regular basis lately and have in fact been feeling decidedly out of shape creatively. But today the many many times I have put myself in the ring studio to shadow box came together for a magical muse moment. The ingredients:
• a little wooden shadow box(!) that previously held a set of tiny tin Christmas ornaments,
• a postcard I painted for my dad in March 2021—a postcard that came back into my keeping following his death just two months later,
• my trusty paper trimmer, and
• some matte medium.
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Be Joyful Though You Have Considered All the Facts, reinvented 2 x 6", acrylic and ink on paper, mounted in shadow box abstract flora 2023 |
4 comments:
This is just a lovely idea! I want one of those shadow boxes too!!!
First, so happy to see you here at my blog! Second, thank you! Third, I loved how that little shadow box just 'fell' into my creative force field. JUST what I needed : )
You had me at tiny tin ornaments. Haha. :) OH, 3 tiny views of the garden. The Borrowers would just love this. And of course, I do too. Who doesn't love tiny things. Tiny boxes. Tiny treasures. On second thought. Maybe this is a skylight, looking out and up. :)
I'm a sucker for tiny and miniatures; I was JUST this morning remembering with fondness the My Merry sets I had when I was around 8, 9, and 10. I look back now at how shamelessly commercial those play sets were—e.g. the My Merry Cleaning Closet featured Scott tissue, Ajax cleanser, Windex, and the like—but the miniatures were immeasurably appealing! I'm happy that my miniatures are more creative! Love your nod to the Borrowers!
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