Bank Holiday Weekend

It has been the August Bank Holiday Weekend and it has been very hot, hot, hot. Both combined to throw the whole weekend out of kilter and it only now that the routine is beginning to get back to normal. The weather has changed too becoming cooler and wet.

I made myself go into the art studio today, not that I have been neglecting arty things but I did switch to more art journalling types of activities and creating colour swatches and such. I have been reluctant to go into the studio knowing what faced me i.e. several boards of multicoloured marks; boards which needed some decisions made about them. I sat and looked at them and applied some more colour - add and take away; positive then negative, creating and destroying but I still felt ill at ease. Then I realised that these boards represented chaos to me and I needed calm. So I created calm, perhaps not in the way I should but I just mixed ochre, crimson and lots of white and created a pale neutral and painted the chaos out. Some of the under tones showed through but suddenly I felt calm and ideas of where to go next began to emerge. I felt so much better and I am ready to return to the studio again.