Dancing Daisies No. 2 (Watercolor Sketch - Split Compliment)

Oh… the things I love about art.   I love that in art everything is right and good.  Unlike mathematics where two plus two is always four, art isn’t held to such a rigid and defined standard and in science you need to prove things before it becomes valid.

Not so with art.  Our creative nature is emotional and intuitive.  By using these intangibles we celebrate beauty in an effort to share our vision of the world we live in.  The only limit is our imagination.

There are a multitude of ways to express ourselves creatively.  I find great joy in painting and drawing but discovered today that I gain equal joy in making mosaic stepping stones from broken dishes and glass.  And yesterday in the garden weeding and planting was pure creativity with the bonus of  a meditative peace.

Once our creativity is unleashed the direction it takes can be planned or left to random discovery.  Your choice.  Like water winding its way through a riverbed our creativity can flow so long as the ego steps aside.  I find when my ego shows up criticism tends to be right on its heels.   With ego and criticism come fear and then all creativity is derailed.

There is helpful information all around us in books, teachers and fellow artists all of which are extremely useful and I encourage learning everything you can from various sources.  The thing is nothing can replace hands-on experience, paint to paper, digging and planting, singing your song or playing your tune with great abandon while leaving your pridefulness out of the equation.

Become an intuitive explorer and remember that creativity has but one rule and that rule is … there are no rules.  Like Nike you gotta just do it!