Comments on: Splash play….out of my mind! https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238 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 By: jan https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-784 jan Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:15:42 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-784 yes….this is playful and mindless, an adventure ….we shall see where it goes…i am loving it too!!

]]> By: Jose https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-783 Jose Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:57:45 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-783 Jan, a lot of my work can be seen in this site:

http://www.reocities.com/paris/rue/8106/

There’s all kinds of stuff there. I admire the change that are allowing to happen, change keeps our spirits forever young. This latest painting you’re working on is beautiful! I’ll keep commenting on my reactions to your work as honestly as possible, whatever they may be. José

]]> By: janbetts https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-781 janbetts Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:14:20 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-781 Hey there Jose…thank you for your insights….very astute observation!!! I love your comment….it is an issue i am addressing as i play in this new territory. A part of me ( from the past) resists temptation to put in ” pre defined shapes and symbols…”, as i paint….and yes, this new one is purer….i will see where it wants to go, keep out of the way of that….it is a lot of fun to play this way!!! So much the way we grow spiritually…as we move past stories and pre conceived ideas and identification with them. Where can i see your paintings?

]]> By: Jose https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-773 Jose Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:26:59 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-773 On your previous painting (Speechless) you allowed pre-defined shapes and symbols to enter the painting which distorted and channeled one’s experience of it. This one seems to be keeping “purer” and seems to show more acceptance from your part of what you call the “unknown”. When I give myself up to the unknown and paint I always finish by doing one test: I hang the painting from all sides and if none brings up pre-conceived images then I know that I was true to it, or better yet, that I was it for a little while, then slowly, as I accept it (and this is the hard part as you probably know, to accept it and to keep out of it, to just let it be as it was meant to be), the painting takes a life of its own over time and we become undissociable, it and me.

]]> By: Karima https://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-770 Karima Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:07:06 +0000 http://www.janbettsart.com/wp/?p=238#comment-770 Wow…color rich and spontaneous beauty..yes I feel you playing inside..Your surrender to what it will be is the joyful mystery revealing itself…Love it!!

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