So,
This is Before the Brush and I'm Patricia Baldwin Segerbrook.
I've been coming here on Insight Timer at this Before the Brush profile for about a year and a half now.
My motivation is to expand the comprehension of creativity as one of the best ways to communicate and conduct ourselves in the world in beauty and integrity.
And creative meditations are times we set aside to weave that web between us,
All that creativity across the world.
In these quick shots,
We do a progressive usually or a similar exercise all week long.
We've been layering the chapters,
Telling our story through these layers of paint.
And on the first day,
We started with charcoal.
Next day,
We brought in what I called that intermediate,
Intermediary,
Intermediate medium.
It was like a drawing material,
But it can be water-soluble or solvent,
Like a paint as well.
And then yesterday,
We did a wash of color.
Today,
We bring in all colors.
So whatever medium you are using,
For myself,
It's oil paint.
Take up that medium,
Watercolor,
Acrylic,
Whatever you've got going on and get ready to express across the canvas that's already begun this new chapter we are going to tell.
Now in addition to this 15 minutes,
20 minutes we spend in these quick shots together,
I've also given you guys this assignment in between,
In those 24 hours in between,
To not touch this work,
But to let it talk to you,
To let those layers gently speak so that when you came back to it now in this next day space,
You had a hint,
An inkling,
Something beyond your intellectual dissemination of the process or the product,
Something beyond that that was that little butterfly,
Little butterfly in your gut,
That rising in your heart energy that says,
Ooh,
Try that.
Now like I said today,
We're going full on into color.
I've set up my palette,
Messy as it is,
With little blobs of color.
And this is where I'm going to start with my oil paint.
I honestly do not know how this is going to render on my canvas,
But I'm looking forward to finding out.
I'm trying to remain loose enough to let it flow.
I have just,
You know,
The smallest idea,
But at the same time,
I've been not spending time with it as appropriately would have been taken place if I listened to the assignment that I gave.
But that is as it is sometimes.
Let's get started,
Shall we?
As always,
A thought bubble.
And this is meant to keep that brain chewing on something so that your intuition and your creative spirit can take the reins.
This is Bruce Garbrandt,
G-A-R-R-A-B-R-A-N-D-T,
Garbrandt.
Creativity doesn't wait for the perfect moment.
It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.
Creativity doesn't wait for the perfect moment.
It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.
I feel a little bit like that's what we're here to do today.
We have this ordinariness of our own space and our own time and our own layering of the story.
And we are anticipating that perfect,
If you will,
Moment that will come as we continue to pay attention and conclude the beauty that we are creating.
Every artist,
I think,
Faces that with every blank canvas.
Such an ordinary moment standing before a blank canvas,
But what extraordinary beauty can manifest when we meet it there?
So good stuff.
We're going to go for 10 minutes today.
10 minutes timed so that we can sit with it a little bit more.
The addition of layers of color may be very in-depth and broad for some of us,
But the idea is to slow down,
Take your time,
Maybe not finish it completely.
By all means,
After this day,
Go on and continue to work a little bit with it.
I think these colors are going to speak to all of us and want to have more time and attention.
So today's assignment isn't to leave it alone.
It's to go ahead and continue.
Tomorrow,
Day five,
We'll come back with dry material.
And that may or may not suit everybody's manifestation,
But we'll see what happens.
We'll play it out.
Okay,
After that thought bubble though first,
Let's remember where we are.
You may have spent your morning or the part of your day that's gone by deeply engaged in other activities and demands and calls for your attention,
But you have given yourself and your creative spirit in a tremendous gift with the determination and commitment to show up here for these 20 minutes that we gather.
So regardless of what you have done so far,
Put a smile on your face realizing that you are here,
That you are delivering on your promise to self to put in creative time every day.
And if your heart like mine appreciates that,
You too feel the joy.
Take a few deep breaths to pull yourself to this space with those thoughts in mind,
The appreciation of yourself for giving yourself this time,
The satisfaction of the commitment lived,
Delivered,
10 minutes of beauty,
Each of us at the end of our brush.
Enjoy it,
Everybody.
That was the timer yet again,
Quieter than I anticipated.
Welcome back,
Everybody.
All right.
That's it.
I've got a few ideas still speaking to me and I have time and space to give it attention.
If you do as well,
Then keep going with this.
Like I said,
Tomorrow we bring in our dry material once again.
Be ready for that to maybe,
Maybe,
Maybe change,
But have your table ready,
Everything in front of you,
Prepared to go.
All right.
That's day four of five.
I'll see you all here tomorrow.
Let's do it again.
Telling our stories with paint and color.
