{"id":2276,"date":"2016-02-24T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T04:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T04:14:21","slug":"painting-with-an-open-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/24\/painting-with-an-open-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting With an Open Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2282\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2282\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2282 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/one-life4.jpg?resize=900%2C1200\" alt=\"One Life4\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruits of my open-hearted day of paint<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This Sunday I cleared away all obligations for the day, eschewed social media and turned off my phone and turned on the music &#8211; this day I felt like painting loose and free. Most of my painting these days are landscapes \u2013 beautiful scenes of the Ranch and surrounds but they can get a little tight- but this day I had a strong urge to do a soul painting. I wanted a canvas big enough that I had to use my whole body and not just my wrist to paint.\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted to start painting and not know where I was going. Like a Sunday drive wandering with no destination in mind \u2013 I would know where I was when I got there. I had been scrolling through the painter Flora Bowley\u2019s website earlier in the week, she had some \u201chow to start a painting\u201d ideas and the one that caught my fancy was to fill your canvas with intentions- and so I did. The photo below shows my start. While I was making my list of words a line from one of my favorite Mary Oliver poems popped in my head \u2013 the second photo shows \u201c What will you do with your one wild and precious life?\u201d in red.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now my canvas was filled with good juju and ready to build my painting. The idea of a seed and sprout emerging came to mind as a powerful symbol so I let my paint move in that direction. I filled in blocks of color and layered and dripped and layered some more. Finally as my brush slowed on this Sunday drive of a painting I decided I wanted to bring a snippet of the Mary Oliver poem back to the front. Once that was placed I knew I had arrived &#8211; a painting straight from the heart! What a wonderful day.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I can share this soulful, open-hearted style of painting with people in person soon &#8211; I\u2019m thinking about <em>Open HeART Parties<\/em> in gardens and backyards and barns\u2026.what do you think? Want to join me? Let me know your thoughts\u2026.more to come &#8211; this journey is just beginning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday I cleared away all obligations for the day, eschewed social media and turned off my phone and turned on the music &#8211; this day I felt like painting loose and free. 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