https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=174 My Art Blog is where i am publishing my newest artwork, and some of my older works, and writing about each one... Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=174#comment-359 janbetts Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:53:44 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=174#comment-359 Wow! Very interesting how our creative processes are interweaving of late!! We are inspiring each other and obviously share a mutual admiration for each others art…and we both “get it” about letting go and allowing a flow..becoming an instrument of that!!! Only problem is i am truly running out of superlatives to express how i feel about your ever expanding range of talents!! Thank you so much for your support, Karima….and for being your wonderful amazing generous self!!

]]> https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=174#comment-341 Karima Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:29:58 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=174#comment-341 How well you describe that pivotal moment, Jan, right before the beginning strokes, or flings of paint that will change that white faced canvas forever. In my writings, and beginnings of new projects, I feel the very same..the less my active conscious mind gets in the way, the better… as creativity comes from totally a different place..as you put it so well,”this force beyond mind” It takes practice, and error, and trying again, to truly surrender to that state of letting oneself go in the creative process without tight plans and conceptions on how it will finally come out..The creation reveals itself to the artist along the way of that surrender..You are also blessed with impeccable technique, years perfecting your gift , a lifetime of Art so I know whatever you allow to be born, will be something I am drawn to, inspired by, and will no doubt swoon for long periods of time as I contemplate it.. I am excited for you..and also wondering if perhaps in some small way once again(well “Fertilization” was in a big gigantic way:) your signing of the finished painting, won’t begin a process in my own mind to start something it becomes an integral part of. Have fun on this your newest painting, and please keep us up to date with your progress. It’s something I so love about your art blog; how you let us in on your little “secrets” and steps from a blank canvas, to a beautiful existing reality pulled from the “unformed Reality” of possibilities..waiting to be made visible. Thank you too for your words about my use of your paintings in my machinimas. Wow, it became so interwoven, that in the last episodes, it even whispered to me how it was going to end..:)

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