Hello,
Awaken Creative.
I'm Patricia Baldwin-Seggerbrook.
I've been meeting you here on Insight Timer since I believe 2018.
With audio messages and recordings and talks and encouragement.
I hope.
To get you closer to your soul as you create.
I'm an artist I paint.
I like to bring you that medium.
Walk you through these meditations.
And help you through your own creative practice.
Today!
Thanks to video.
I'm bringing you these creative meditations with things in front of us.
In a moment,
I'm going to turn my camera and we'll start together.
Before that happens,
You can pause and gather your materials.
Find something inexpensive and not precious to paint upon.
I'm using Newsprint.
You can use cardboard.
Found materials,
Anything with a little bit of an absorbency so it can take the paint.
And then today we're using a gushy brush.
I'll show you that in a moment.
And a few colors.
I've got white.
A dark blue.
A violet.
You choose yours.
But keep it simple.
We're after three colors today.
Grab those materials.
I'll turn my camera I'll meet you here.
All right to show you where i'm beginning wait calling it violet,
But I don't think that's fair.
The mixed colour.
And a dark blue.
We'll call it indigo.
And I've pulled out two of my.
.
.
Cushy brushes,
As I'm calling them.
So a traditional sumi brush.
And then this Gosh golly,
Squirrel hairbrush?
Not even sure.
There's a lot of There's a density of fiber.
And a looseness of fiber,
Unlike a hog bristle brush that can be more stiff.
So that's what I mean by gushy.
I'm working on newsprint that I have not gessoed first.
Not because I don't want to,
But because I'm.
.
.
Cautiously,
Trepidatiously.
I'm gonna see what happens when I work on an un-gessoed surface.
These are your materials.
These are my materials.
Three colors.
Two brushes.
In my hand.
Let's begin with finding our center first.
Always important.
Always valuable.
The difference,
Actually.
Between a technically accurate painting.
And a beautiful Compelling.
Energy filled.
Creation.
Hips centered and square either over your feet.
Grounded in the earth.
Are centered in your seat.
Close your eyes if it helps your senses.
Focus in on your internal landscape.
See the strong.
Yet supple and flexible.
Trunk of you.
Your spine.
A conduit.
Carrying the energy of your soul.
Your intuition.
Your heart.
Into your hands and your head.
The places.
It goes out to share.
To express.
To make meaning.
With the centering,
With the lining in place.
Take a final deep breath.
Grab a brush.
I like to change it up and for this demonstration.
I'm going.
Dominant hand,
Which for me is left.
You choose for you,
Dominant,
Non-dominant.
But I encourage you,
If you have it,
To use a long handled brush because this gives you a freedom of motion.
That takes away that control element.
Takes away the intellectualizing of the application.
And puts you straight on.
To the motion.
Oftentimes when I work this way,
I'm beginning blindly.
Quite frankly,
You can.
Probably intuit that.
It's part of the process.
But also oftentimes,
Immediately upon that first mark,
I get a sense of where I might be going.
Where it might be taking me and.
.
.
The exercise.
That was monochromatic,
Black and white,
If you hook into that here on Insight Timer,
A video.
That's creative meditation.
The black and white kind of filled the space.
It took over.
When I set the brush down here,
For this exercise,
Almost immediately.
An instinct to stay centered.
A rose.
Here I am following that instinct.
Staying centered.
In this case,
That means on the page.
Beware.
Yours takes you.
I pulled two brushes because oftentimes I want a backup.
The instinct is to not sully the color on the brush and keep them pure.
One color from the other.
But sometimes.
.
.
As is the case here.
No,
That's.
.
.
Let's let.
That blending happen.
So I've kept to the same brush.
Going into my rinse water in between.
And letting what comes,
Come.
If the instinct to pick up a paintbrush and open a pot of paint as a meditation is a new impulse for you.
Well,
Gosh,
Golly,
Welcome.
Thank you for trusting yourself and trying it.
If you are an avid painter.
And holding a brush is nothing new to you.
Welcome as well.
Because you already have that instinct.
Well in hand.
That impulse.
Well in hand.
I'm hoping that by engaging in this practice.
And coming along with me through these practices of creative meditation.
You might open something new.
You might discover something fresh.
And a new connection to your soul.
To hand.
Through heart.
Begins to resonate across the surface.
Awaken Creative.
