Alright,
I'm going to get started.
As always,
Welcome to this incredible space we are in together before the brush I created so that we could gather and come more to the consciousness of the power of creativity as that connection between heaven and earth,
Between the divine and our humanity.
To me,
This is everything.
This understanding of the importance,
The value,
The integrity of creativity in our human nature as our human makeup as well as the creative force from the beginning of time.
It is all one.
It is all interwoven and we are all a part of it no matter how we express.
So being here with you enforces that,
Reinforces that and builds and strengthens it.
So thank you for being here.
This week we are working with returning to that beginner's mind,
That space where creativity started.
I was going to try to avoid it but I can't,
In the pure delight of that color on paper,
That line with our hand and the pencil.
We're returning to that by way of non-dominant hand.
So bring your dry material,
Bring your wet material and let's see what we can work through.
I start as always with a thought bubble and then we will move on to connecting to our surface a quick gentle meditation if you will,
Grounding meditation,
Centering meditation and then we'll get started with just about 10 minutes of expression over the surface,
Over the canvas.
Here we go.
As I said yesterday,
I am using Frederick Buchner for all the thought bubbles this week.
The thought bubbles are something for your brain to chew on while the rest of your body and spirit and heart engage in the practice that we will do.
So give that thinking brain something to chew on.
It does not matter what you call it.
What matters is that you open to receive it.
Move in the direction it seeks to move you.
It does not matter what you call it.
What matters is that you open to receive it.
Move in the direction it seeks to move you.
That's an important statement for me right now because I struggle with the notion of going with the flow,
With letting things come to me as opposed to the converse of create what you see.
Use your power to create.
Get in there and start something.
That whole mentality.
For the last couple decades,
I've done everything within my power to create,
To put my human will and drive and determination into making something happen,
Making my life happen.
I've been intrigued for the last few years by this better notion perhaps or alternative notion,
Side playing notion of letting inspiration speak,
Letting divine take the step first and follow.
So again,
The thought bubble for today speaks to me on that level.
Open to receive it and move in the direction it seeks to move me.
All right.
Today I've altered my materials just a little bit,
Paying attention as I'd like to think I did to where it's moving me.
I glanced at all my materials and thought,
I'm going to use the inks today.
So I pulled out my inks and I'm actually using these as my dry material.
Yes,
Of course they are a fluid,
But I'm going to use them as a writing,
Mark making tool.
So maybe that's a better way to specify that dry,
Something that's mark making,
But I also have my graphite pencil.
And then my wet material is again,
That encaustic gesso.
So that's what I have before me.
In case you are observing and participating in this creative meditation with your eyes as well as your ears and your hands.
That's what you'll be watching and seeing as I begin motion here.
But first,
Our surface.
Everyone say hello.
Say hello to the materials you have before you.
No matter the emotions or mood,
Challenges that have gone before you this morning already,
Can you open your eyes new,
Just now,
To what is in front of you?
And be struck by the wonder of that as if brand new.
Like that box of 128 Crayolas on Christmas morning when you were seven.
That fresh,
New revelation of beauty.
Beauty that is there for you to create with.
For you to discover and open up to and open up with in a whole new way.
Yes sure,
Crayola has been manufactured for decades,
If not centuries.
You are not the first to touch this crayon.
But you are the first to touch this crayon in just the way that you do.
With the energy,
The sensitivity,
The character,
And the intention that you bring it.
That is already beautiful.
As you feel yourself centered in your space with that even small opening of your heart to the wonder of your materials.
Pick up that first call to your senses.
Again in that non-dominant hand.
Yesterday we worked with a semic writing,
That intuitive writing.
Called it scribbling.
That was to keep it childlike.
Semic writing is the unrecognizable expression that I like to think is from the gut.
From the intuition.
Today let's let the material fall where it may.
The tool I'm using is a dropper so it naturally wants to become a dot.
Perhaps yours is that end of the pencil that speaks to line or shape.
Try to see even for the briefest of moments.
Try to see if you can hear,
Sense the material telling you where to take it.
What mark it desires to express.
And if like me you have more than one dry material at hand,
Employ it as well.
I'll let silence hold the space for about three minutes.
Just explore where your quote unquote dry material,
Your mark making materials want to take you.
I'll let silence hold the space for about three minutes.
Are there any other?
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