Rest a creative Mind
“Rest a creative mind”
A creative mind needs a rest from time to time to refreshes and reenergizes itself. For the fact that a creative artist is not an automated machine that works 24 hours nonstop, and still produces same thing over and over every minute. Therefore, refreshing a creative mind is essential need for artist's creativity and productivity. That is why learning to reenergize the mind is a step toward the goal. Our surroundings of nature are available to provide what we need. Although, it is necessary for an artist's mind to slips in and out, of consciousness, to nourish their visions. Being absorbed by nature and capable of observing and meditating will inspire a creative mind for next step of improvement. When the brush keeps on moving all over the canvas, not knowing what to do, while the minds goes off somewhere else, it is the time to revive the focusing point. If your car is running out of gas, you will not be able to drive, for too long. 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 never painted before. In this stage, artists absolutely need to pause for reenergizing themselves. The sensitivity of a capable artist is a quality of perceiving and responding to external conditions and stimulation, absorbing lights, shapes, colors and reacting to other's feelings, attitudes and circumstances.
As far as how to reenergize oneself and for how long, this is where a personal experience fits in. Creative people gain knowledge of themselves as to how, when and where to get that craving for creating artwork and what dose influence their minds. Seeing, observing, reasoning, watching and feeling for, studying, meditating and listening to favorite music can make the big difference. Of course, self-discipline has a big role in this. These steps of nourishment would clear out the abstracts and the mind distractions. 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 piece of art, 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 of a child, creative people need to work with the subconscious mind, that has been previously, nourished, with spontaneous intention, true motives, passion and enjoyment. Watching creative children, we find that they are free from any fear, worries or calculations of matters. These factors do affect our freeness of expressing oneself whether in painting, performing, composing or any other form of art to create. In the harshness of not only the western society but in all societies, artists easily struggle, not only from many worries in making living but also, in living up to the speed of life. Freeing oneself from these factors, while crating artwork, is another struggle requires self-discipline. Liked the smell of your first medium, you will be eager to stay in your studio for long hours as when appreciating a word of wisdom, you will acquire more of it. Also, 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 from different ones to go in different direction, yet they have been painting still and will for the rest of their lives. Artists do not need to spare as of how to keep the innocence and the freshness in their minds for that is driven from within.
Artists brains are progressive gift where can be maturing in vision, imagination and widening out with flexibility. Hence, let us learn more about that marvelous gift was given to us, from God, learn how to use it and keep it in a healthy state.
©Mona Youssef - Realist fine artist
