My Affair

Hello!

Yes, today I am going to talk about my affair.

It came late in life, but I thought about it a lot when I was younger and it was always close to my heart.

I fantasized about it for many years and since I have become involved this affair has brought me joy and frustration; but mostly joy.

I am having an affair with acrylic painting. I dream about brushes and canvas and color. When I pick up a brush, I study it. I feel the shape of it and think about what image it will leave on the canvas.

I dream about the brush moving back and forth, up and down. I see the colors all blending together in a beautiful way.

This affair has brought that which is inside me up and out and transferred it to canvas. Sometimes it is crazy and chaos and sometimes it is filled with laughter and joy.

It is with deep feelings that I paint. The emotion in entangled with the creativity and the brush dances on its own.

I have intentions of creating something with lines and all neat and recognizable; but alas, my mind has a mind of its own and I paint mostly abstracts.

The above image was certainly going to be a seashore in the sea, but the brush went here and there and blue came forth and made its own image.

You see, as with any affair, this one has give and take and I do not always get my own way.

Never do I get my way as far as neatness goes and yes I am a clean freak and a neat freak! But, when I paint I get paint all over me...it is everywhere! Even my 3 year old granddaughter can paint and not get any on her!

My affair is laughing in my face! Hahahaa!

As I look at my painting filled walls all around me, I stop at each image and I relive the emotion and feeling deep within that took over the end result of the image.

The depth of this affair has startled me and I think about it all the time. Every photo I take, every image I encounter, I just want to put what those things kindled in me on canvas. Sigh. I love this affair.

As in all affairs, there is the positive and the negative. I want to get control of this affair, but alas! I cannot!

And so, as this affair grows and colors and bubbles forth within me, I will keep you posted.

I do invite you to take a stroll through my galleries and stop and ponder and wonder what was bubbling up inside this artist and smile. Perhaps in doing so, you may find your own affair with art in a way you had not expected!

Roberta
http://bertsworks.com