Spring Blossoms dreamed itself into being yesterday as I was gamboling around the south-facing balcony taking in the February sunshine and being pulled to splash around some acrylic paints on a simple canvas board available at any round-the-corner stationery store.
What caught my eye next was this beautifully crafted cocktail mixing swivel spoon (CMSS) all sparkly and freshly arrived from Amazon.
Ordered not with the intention of stirring up some out-of-this-world mocktails though that remains a distinct possibility but very specifically to stir up some bright acrylic fluids with a very accessible pouring medium (also available at the neighbourhood store, more on the magic ingredient soon) that provides a viscous flow and amazing lustre.
Why not stir up the paints in the disposable cups found all over the environs nowadays with those lovely ice cream sticks? That happens too and can be a peculiarly satisfying experience, I assure you, just watching the colours swirl and blend into a warm honey-like consistency while you wait patiently for the bubbles to dissipate. But the magic of preparing paints blended with a proportion of pouring medium, occasionally splashed with a few droplets of water in Squeeze Bottles can be quite taking particularly when you can’t let a day go by without messing around with paints on a surface (canvas board, canvas, paper, cardboard, tiles, tabletops asking for a patch of uplifting), and truly the surface can be anything to innovate with for semi-abstract and abstract fluid pours, occasionally referred to as Dutch Pours), an activity rather than a collection of techniques that spells only one thing: FREEDOM (full and complete Freedom of Expression) and that can be mighty, mighty heady.
The colours weave their own spells and you may find that each day calls you to a set, reflects your mood and quite often transports beyond. (More on colours, choices and observed healing in another post soon.)
Does Pouring or ‘Colour Play’ as I like to call it, require complex tools and implements? Most certainly not, that’s what I started off to say before digressing somewhat!
To return to the CMSS, it has become the latest implement, not of torture but Liberation as happened yesterday afternoon. The canvas board having been slathered with a white base and some greens and flower-like colours being dripped on, the curly wurly stem of the spoon just needed to be gently pressed against the greens to reveal a rather pleasant field of tall grasses and numerous soft stems and leaves.
The spoon section being swirled over the various blobs of bright colours brought forth the spring flowers.
And some scrunched up kitchen foil pressed against a liquid blue brought forth the horizon to horizon spring sky that am fortunate enough to witness at the moment.
With Colour Play many, many simple unobtrusive day to day items have become an object of keen focus: Disposable spoons, forks, knives, kitchen tissue, aluminium foil, straws for beverages, toothpicks, colanders, bottle caps, bubble wrap, discarded credit cards, balloons, loofahs, dryers, just about anything that You can visualize as a tool!
Brushes, spatulas, swipe tools are welcome, though not essential.
So, what’s keeping you stuck? Just Go Pouring Now, any medium, any surface, any size, any scale…And watch your Life Glow! Did I say Flow?!! Guaranteed!!!
Right Here, Right Now…Healing and Therapy actually begins with You!!!
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Signing off for now with Blossoming in Transformation (quite simply an anklet chain pull in acrylic).
See You,
Satarupa