There’s been a lot going on around the edges here lately; a stolen bike, a bad cough, a sick guinea-pig… I woke up thinking ‘It’s all too much, I’ll kick back today’. then I read this from the Sarah Breathnatch book (Aug 10 if you’ve got it!) Sarah quotes Madeline L’Engle who says ” I believe that each work of art…comes to the artist and say’s ” Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.” And the artist either becomes the bearer of that work or refuses. Sarah goes onto point out that we can then become angry and frustrated when we see that someone else said ‘yes’ to their creativity; “The bottom line is that the Work must be brought forth. If you don’t do it, someone else will.” That galvanized me!
We have two beautiful lilac tree’s in our garden. We are soon (hopefully) to move house but we are glad to have had one last season of these lilac’s before we go. It’s been my intention to savour them through paint – today was the day.
I thought I’d show you the tricks I used in another post but here is the finished thing. Lilac’s are a killer to paint, second only to Hydrangea’s! The colours are very complex to see and then reproduce. Buds seemed to be red purple, open flowers mauve and then everything in between. It’s turned out much flatter than I expected – from a distance it looks like a screen print. That’s got me thinking…
© Claire Leggett "Lilac's"
