Painting Is All About the Journey

My canvas is swirling with sassiness
Purples, greens, fuchsia and limes greet each other
Mixing it up in a frenzy of sorts.
They snake in and out of themselves
This is something I have whipped up for fun.

Like my thoughts, my canvas ebbs and flows like Chopin.
I begin to think about my internal organs – the colon maybe.
There are the lungs, the pancreas, everything alive.
Red is an afterthought; not at all planned. 
She pulls everything together in a delightful way. 

I am not trying for an end result or a product.
With painting, it is all about the journey.
My reptilian brain sighs with relief. 
The importance of creating is two-fold.
It is the sense of play and the gift of relaxation.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Hawkins Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 8:25 PM
A myriad of colours painted on canvas with gay abandon brings a picture of life-giving joy to people who look at it. And therapy to the artist.
Krutsinger Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 11:21 PM
Thank you Shirley - I am a licensed therapist, and my best therapy for myself is painting, cartooning and writing poems
Hankins Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 9:45 AM
As you know, I have no talent for painting, but you certainly do, and I love when you are able to combine your love of painting with your gift for writing.
Krutsinger Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 6:51 PM
I love both of them so much! I have been entertaining and traveling, but today - all I did was paint! I am so joyful!
Calasibetta Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 5:10 AM
Ah, an artist of passion whose purpose is to express without constraints~your work must be musical! You always write with so much wit and joy! :)Paulette
Krutsinger Avatar
June 5, 2022 at 6:52 PM
I have to let you know Paulette I have drawn out and inked 17 canvases and I am in the throes of finishing 17 others - I have about 600 of them already finished, and 214 are stacked on a desk for we are out of room!
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