Artistic Renewal - It's Always There

I thought I would share this with you, today, the beginning of  New Year.

I had assigned myself the task of cleaning the studio, you know, getting rid of the old to let in the new.  As I moved my easel into the spare bathroom, I noticed the small white vase I had placed there several weeks ago, when I was thinking about the Daily Painting Movement.  I was imagining a beautiful painting using this vase and several  twigs I'd pruned from the ornamental red-leaf plum tree in my back yard...these twigs still contained the rusty "plums" about the size of olives...this is an ornamental tree, and the real fruit has been bred out of it in favor of the short-lived flowers... 

My composition was going to be rather Oriental, with arching stems, minimalist, thick brush marks...I never actually got around to my plans, and when I noticed that my picturesque little plums were shriveling up into rather grotesque forms,  I moved the vase with twigs into the bathroom to get it out of the way for the painting lesson I needed to prepare.

But today, I realized that I had been given a unique gift, a message about renewal.

There was my vase and twigs and shriveled plums.

And flowers.

There are times when we fear that our creative resources have run dry, but they are not gone.  They are simply waiting for the right time to reappear.

I wish you nothing but flowers in the coming year!

Comments

[tammy vitale]

What a lovely post! And isn't that so very cool that the flower is coming out?! Who would have thought. I love the photos and can only imagine a painting of this piece - it's very graceful and evocative of all things peaceful and patient.

Thanks for stopping by over at my blog - I look forward to reading more on yours - I see by your banner that we are indeed on the same path (except for the retirement piece - I don't have a retirement having been a trouble-maker, um, community-based organizer during my earning years: low pay, no retirement, but you DO get to feel proud of some of the things that get accomplished - I was always told that was my real pay...so no retirement. But art is my business so that's okay. =]