‘Good artist copy, great artists steal!’
Pablo Picasso
I want to steal the clouds, capture them, own them, trap them on canvas …
I am obsessed by clouds.
My friend it turns out is jealous …
‘I wish the the clouds did it for me like they do it for you. I don’t even notice them.’
There was silence between us for a while as we drove along contemplating each others experience of life – mine wowing and ooo-ing at the clouds, each journey or day experienced through the sky, her assurance that most people don’t bother noticing!
It is my new obsession … to learn to paint the clouds … and my head has felt cloudy and foggy for days thinking unhelpful thoughts such as I don’t know how to do this … how is it even possible …how on earth can I express what I feel and see?
I must let go of any thoughts about not good enough for how can the clouds be wrong – they are all about change.
Time for me to change my thinking …
So I think about Picasso’s wisdom – “Good artists copy, great artists steal!’
I will learn to steal the clouds –
- Learn the rules and tricks of the cloud painting, such as clouds get smaller as they get further away – a great metaphor!
- Look at artists I admire and study them …
- Take even more photographs …
- Be grateful for cloudy old steely wintry Scotland …
- Draw little cloud thumbnails from my kitchen window, set up a mini kitchen studio today for gathering morning clouds.
- Play and play with the clouds in paint
- Think up up up – head in the clouds, feet on the ground, heart open – stay free! It follows the art will freely billow in like a fantastic clouds formation too!
When I expressed my cloudy thinking and doubts about my ability to paint the clouds a dancer friend suggested I reread my own free creativity e-course – Let Go Make Art! That it would unblock me as it had unblocked her. I love my friends who won’t let me get away with foggy thinking! (link below)
I know what I want – a clear intention is a good start.
I am on a cloud stealing mission …
I will be like an art thief planing to steal a masterpiece …
Strategising, preparing, pouring over books and plans, trying out different versions until I have the perfect crime …
Despicable me I am planning to steal the clouds!