A Little Space
I have a little narrow wall space on one side of the quirky landing at the top of the stairs in our home. I also have a 12 x 36″ canvas whose dimensions have the potential to fill that space very satisfyingly.
Even though I’ve been feeling uncomfortably stuck, and off, and slumpy, and rudderless of late, I unboxed the canvas last weekend after its having been in my studio for nearly two years.
The next day I gessoed the canvas.
Two days after that, I added some gentle intuitive swaths of varied grays.
Today, I used EFT tapping to release my stuckness and other named and unnamed feelings of discouragement, making a little space to install feelings of ease, peace, and relaxation, and I headed to my studio.
Using an ink pen, a fine line ink applicator, and an eye-dropper with ink, I wrote my tapping dialogue out in scribbled words on the canvas.
First layers and marks in place!
I feel nourished and lifted up!
12 x 36″ stretc
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12 responses to “A Little Space”
You had me at a little narrow space in a quirky landing at the top of our stairs! I love spaces like that….and I love that you cut through the stuckness and started on something to fill it.
This is a fabulous first layer with your tapping dialogue…a perfect foundation for making something personal and special for that space.
MaryAnn, thank you for bouncing back to me “a little narrow space in a quirky landing at the top of our stairs.” Something about hearing my own words back through you is magical!
Thanks also for cheering me on with your seeing my tapping dialogue writ large on my canvas as a perfect foundation for this painting.
I will work on my painting further today.
Wow, do you use that substrate size often? With portrait and landscape orientation, do you favor one over the other?
Now that I think about it, I use this shape often … just on a significantly smaller scale, with my bookmarks!
Thank you for your warm cheerleading and your feedback on visual language, Carol.
I know this rudderless feeling of which you speak, Dotty. I don’t know…. for me, it’s akin to fallow time in a garden. Not comfortable but a holding place for what’s to come. I appreciate your use of EFT for figuring it out. That was such a good idea and I hadn’t thought of that application. This 12×36 is such a cool size. At first glance, before I read your post, in a horizontal position, it reminded me of diagraming sentences in 7th grade English class! I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens next.
Thanks for sharing all this – so beautiful how just starting out, scribbling, making marks, can set things in motion in an inexplicable way.
Simone, what a lovely way to put into words what took place here with this new canvas. Thank you!
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