Rest a creative mind
A creative mind needs a rest from time to time in order to refreshes and reenergizes itself. For the fact that a creative artist is not an automated machine that can works 24 hours non stop and still produces same thing over and over every minute. Unless an artist sits there, in front of an easel, day and night, copying photos. Therefore, refreshing creative mind is essential factor for an artist’s productivity. It can be flourished when it is motivated. That is why learning to reenergize an artist’s mind is a step toward the goal. Our surroundings of nature are available for us to provide what is needed. It is necessary for an artist’s mind to slips in and out of consciousness in order to nourishes his/her vision. Feeling of surroundings, observing, meditating, digesting them will prepare an artist’s mind for next step of improvement. When the brush keeps on moving all over the canvas not knowing what to do while our minds goes off somewhere else, it is the time to revitalize the foxing point. If your car is running out of gas, definitely you will not be able to run, for too long, on the high way. If your brain is running out of protein and phosphors, surely do not expect to see matters clearly. If a person lacks good amount of sleep, what productivity can he/she expects next day! Yes the brush will tend to drift and re-paint same areas with no result. Because of the mental drift as the case with beginners and less confident artists, so are the creative mind can experience same thing exactly, as if it had no idea of how to paint never before. Artists absolutely need to pause while reenergizing themselves in this stage. Sensitivity of a capable artist is a quality of perceiving with his/her senses, responds to external conditions and stimulation, absorbs lights, shapes, colors and reacts to other’s feelings, attitudes, and circumstances. By doing so, an artist can come up with the breathtaking and original paintings.
As far as how to reenergize oneself and for how long, this is where a personal experience fits in. One must gains knowledge of himself/herself as to how, when and where to get that craving for painting and what dose influence his/her frame of mind. Seeing, observing, reasoning, watching, and feeling for, studying, mediating and listening to favorite music can make the big difference. Of course self-discipline has a big roll in this. These steps of nourishing the mind would clear out the abstracts and the mind distractions. In order to produce the" instinctive painting" we need to be full of it and completely focused, at the moments of creating it, with no distractions. But how often can we accomplish that, with the intention of creating a new painting, while we might be apprehensive about other matters in life! It has been the struggle of many artists including professionals!
To keep the frame of mind, to maintain its freshness, to prolong the openness of learning new materials and to carry on the innocence, we need to work with the subconscious mind, that has been previously, nourished, with spontaneous intention, true motives, love to do it, and enjoy doing it. Liked the smell of your first medium, you will be eager to stay in your studio for long hours. Liked a word of truth, you will acquire more of it. Staying in a studio for many hours requires self-discipline. Observing Artists who started drawing and painting since childhood and probably were faced with oppositions form different ones to go in different direction, yet they have been painting still and for the rest of their lives. We do not need to spare as of how to keep the innocence and the freshness in our minds, for it all comes from within. The above was simply tips in support of fellow artists for the strongest desires in us will always remain fresh and alive.
An artist’s brain is a progressive gift where an artist can only be maturing in vision, imagination and widening out on flexibility. So let us learn more about that marvelous gift was given to us, from God, learn how to use it and keep it in a good state.
Mona Youssef - Realist fine artist
