I just baked two
chocolate chip cookies and took them out from the oven. I plan to eat one now
and save one for later (we will see if that works). I know instinctively and by
experience I don’t dare bake the whole batch!
I am sitting in my
comfy chair viewing the pastoral view out our window, watching the
cows and enjoying my morsel. The hot gooey
chocolate chips melt in my mouth with each bite giving me more pleasure. What could
be better at this moment? I am enjoying
a time of solitude with the quiet moment to relax and reflect.
With cookie in hand,
I realize this is a similar emotion to the creative experience I get as an
artist. Creativity too, like the cookie,
can flee quickly. In the moment of creativity the juices are flowing and it is
a pleasured high. The ideas just come and I try to get them on the watercolor
paper quickly before the moment passes.
These are the moments that keep us going as artists. When our art
doesn’t have the same passion on a particular day we need to reflect to the
success of the past and be encouraged.
Hard continual work
as artists keep these “cookie” experiences coming, becoming more frequent as
well as more inspired. As we continue to
grow to the next level of our art our experience continues to take us to a
height undreamed of.
Go create and wait
for the inspiration to catch up with you. I am off to create in my studio…since
my second cookie is gone!
Happy Creating...
Linda
