Piddle and Random
January 29, 2010 by Janice
Watercolor, Color Pencil, Graphite, on paper, Janice Cartier, January 2010
Sounds like a law firm, maybe a jeweler, or a publisher, but piddle and random is a discovery tool. One I’m using for part of my day today. I know, sounds and maybe even looks like, it’s just doodles…and it is. But these little color sketches are, hm..a kind of free association to both get away from and come into something.
Ever set out on a walk with no particular thing in mind except the walking? Just follow your feet where they lead? And did you ever notice what happens the more you warm up, the more you cover a bit of distance going to that no place in particular?
Just being in the walk?
That nothingness of walking openly…
Is kind of an emptying out,
And an inviting in.
Things happen in that space, thoughts drift,
Responses happen,
Curiosity can take you here or there.
Ease.
No have to, no this way only,
No must cover x number of miles.
Just walking until it’s time to go back in.
It’s raining here today, and someone borrowed my umbrella…so I may not go outside.
But I will be walking,
Color sketching,
Making puddles,
And marks,
Covering a little bit of distance,
With nothing particular in mind, except two things:
It cannot be of anything,
And there cannot be a plan.
I just have to follow where it leads.
That’s all.
Oh, and I have to use colors that are favorites, and colors that I rarely use at all.
Piddle and random.
On a rainy day.
Discovery.
From intentionally
Doing something,
With a vacant mind.
It takes practice.
The artist smiles.
But you get some delicious bits that burble up to the surface.
See you around five for a Naughty beverage?
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