A few months ago the passion suddenly struck me again, I had been so caught up at work and with the Stroud of cancer possibilities still surrounding me, I needed an outlet so thought I would give it a whirl.
It didn't take me long however to work out I am not particularly talented at painting...or at least making things realistic. Instead I dabbled with some other arty type ideas...silhouette type drawings, with bright back grounds and little Paua (a type of shell found in New Zealand) mosaic things.
I love to find new ways to just sit and let the creative juices flow.
For a while, life just seemed to get away from me, and I didn't realise quite how bad things were getting, stress building up because I wasn't acknowledging it was there. I was distracting myself in my work and family as is so easy to do.
I naturally have quite a calm demeanour so I find it easy to take a few breaths and let things just flow over me.... however I often find that really it just stock-piling itself somewhere. Far too often I come home from a hard day at work; or something small happens at home and I just feel my mood plummet, my head heavy. This is when I needed to find something that could assist lifting me out of that hole, something constructive.
So far, these are what I have completed whilst quickly sitting on my lounge floor slowly letting the heaviness in my head go..
The last picture was particularly fun, where I painted on a silhouette I found online, and created crayon rain down on top of it via a hair dryer...
If i can suggest anything to relieve some stress that was definitely a bit of fun!
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