Tinkerlab’s Double Page Spread Challenge inspired me to get out my sketchbook last night. I rarely ever doodle without purpose anymore so the task of filling TWO blank pages without a specific goal seemed a bit daunting. I managed to get started even though my kids kept getting out of bed, I didn’t have any room to work, and I had at least 19 other things I was supposed to be accomplishing. I could feel my brain hurting while I painted. I had no starting point. No finish line. My meandering muscle has gone weak! Long gone are the days when I filled sketchbook after sketchbook with anything and nothing. Some pages just blotches. Some pages letters or poems. Some pages elaborate projects and ideas. Some pages blank…
As I start to reclaim my creative life I must remember that doing without purpose is worth the while.
Oh my gosh, you have a BLOG!! I know what you mean about it hurting the head after a long absence. Ouch, mine hurts too. And maybe one point is to create and exercise your mind in a new way — that a purpose after all
It’s a very very VERY new blog that you have in many ways inspired! Excited to finally have a place to put my constant jumble of thoughts!!! xoxox