musings – Page 3 – Nancy Anderson

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

fun with experimentation…

So, in stepping up to the easel… one night I just suck, and the next I’m completely in the zone. I know that this is just how it is for all artists, but what is up with that? Because I’m hiking or walking dogs all day, I paint at night. I also love NPR, soContinue reading “fun with experimentation…”

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas Sometimes, I approach the canvas with a clear objective in mind, knowing exactly what I’m going to work on – be it a corner of the canvas or a feature of a face or whatever. Other times,Continue reading

Clare Progression

Hm. Had meant to post more updates as the painting was progressing. Now it’s almost done. Oops. It’s interesting to me that as a holistic practitioner, I am trained to see the whole body – or, the sum of its parts – rather than focusing on just a part; and yet, in painting, I findContinue reading “Clare Progression”

The Primed Canvas

It’s a metaphor for this blog, really. It’s completely empty and ready to be created. Images, words, ideas to be splattered across it. But when they’re blank, they’re perfect in their promise. This canvas is 38″ x 30″ and I stretched it with the intent of putting on it the expressive eyes of aContinue reading “The Primed Canvas”