Painting Challenge - #9

"Blue Morpho"

4"x 6"

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Painting Challenge - #8

Monarch on Pine

4"x6"

Original Watercolour

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Painting Challenge - #4

White Monarch Emerges

4"x6"

Original Watercolour

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Wanton and Wild Creativity

With Hallowe'en approaching and the fall leaves in the air, my brain has been working overtime with creative ideas!  This has been both a positive and a negative.  I believe that any creative idea is a good one as it helps to exercise a very important part of the brain.  The trouble comes (for me anyway) when I have so many ideas that it seems like I am surrounded by a thousand butterflies and I just want to catch one, without breaking it!

Usually when this happens to me I do one of two things: I either frantically grab at whatever's closest and easiest and then ruin it, or I do nothing and am disappointed.  Well, actually either way I'm disappointed.  Whenever I grab at something I tend towards the project that's been bugging me the most.  Something that I should take my time over and think about.  But instead I do a half-bummed job of it and end up frustrated and disappointed.

I guess the trick needs to be to find a way to channel all that creative energy into a really great project.  Instead of trying to catch one butterfly in a swarm of one thousand that all look alike, to see where the most unique butterfly is.  It may not even be in that swarm you are focusing on.  I don't catch butterflies, as a rule.  I prefer to watch them from a distance.  But I do know that any time you want to catch something precious, it's best to find one that's a bit more isolated from the crowd.  Unless you're eating it of course, then it shouldn't matter, but I digress...

So, you can guess from all this rambling that I haven't started a new project yet.  I have been very productive doing sorting and organizing, collecting, cleaning and storing.  But no real project just yet.  I wonder how others deal with this type of thing.  Has it ever happened to you?  Please tell me I'm not alone in this!!