Following the Flow Into Process... and the Most Important Product of All

I have learned my process is oftentimes the sole product necessary.

This was one of those days.

For some reason "russet" spoke to me. I didn't actually know yellow was included until I read the dictionary entry. I added yellow to my thumb and printed on the page.

I did a bit of “brown study.” Dictionary pages with brown paint watered and splattered in russet and sable. A future mixed media background, perhaps, waiting to tell me a story I can’t know yet.

Looking at the mixed-media-page-to-be, I see images waiting to be brought out. My hope? I can translate the images I see.

I also played with a telegraph pole image.

Originally the little boy was in front of the telegraph pole workers. He seemed so excited, I decided to put him atop the pole, like a visitor from the future. Illustration is from a vintage children's book. Background, acrylic paint and gesso.

A foreign object to many today, a vintage vignette. I am not sure why I love it except it mimics the lines from my earlier work about the road outside Frazier Park. There is a reason for everything.

I also played with two companion pieces using picmonkey but the program was being finicky or I was, perhaps, not using it correctly or well so…. my work vanished.

Like I said, sometimes the process is the sole product necessary.

What's up with your creativity?

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This post is inspired by (and a reflection of my participation in) Art Every Day Month, a creative adventure hosted annually by the incredible Leah Piken Kolidas. Join us and be inspired!

Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Fall and Winter, 2014 and beyond.

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