Painting, sort of...

Getting the surfaces prepped, wiping down the dust and getting the brushes ready...no, I'm not painting in my studio, I'm getting ready to paint my kitchen.  So my creative endeavor at this point is to finish my kitchen.  It's been a long time in coming.  I started painting it months ago and something happened (at this point I don't even remember what) to stall the project.  SO...now I'm putting my painting duds on and getting ready to go.

It makes me think of the projects that I've started in my studio that I've not completed.  I have prepped canvases, some that have the base color already dry and ready to go.  Sometimes I go into the studio and just start playing and POW!, I start painting and it's go, go, go.  At other times I go in with the full intention to paint and I stare at my canvases and I see flashes of ideas but I just end up feeling stuck.  I never quite know when those productive flashes will arise.  

I think I know part of the problem and you, my creative funky fellows, may be able to relate - I don't go in every day and do something. (Insert hang dog head)...yes, it's true, I am one of those people who works in bursts.  I can work in my studio for days and then not touch a thing for a month.  I'm not sure why I'm that way, but I am.  I have seen so many of my favorite artists emphatically state how important it is to work EVERYDAY.  While I'm watching these amazing folks I'm like, YEAH! So I start off after these empowering videos and things work well for a day or two and then I start feeling that it is forced.  When I feel that, the creative-o-meter takes a nose dive.  Are you too in this unfortunate situation at times? If so, how do you get out of those times? Enquiring minds want to know. :)

Anyway...I'll ponder these things as I primer my kitchen walls and wash down cabinets, tape the door frames and putty the nail holes.  Perhaps in the 'doing' I'll find the 'creating' underneath.  

Stay cool my friends and more soon. ;)

~Peace

Michelle