Be a fountain, not a drain - Rex Hudler

I am bubbling with ideas. I want to create. I want to paint.

I have started painting again this year and although it was fun, I just couldn't seem to find my way around it. I was looking for the right medium (acrylic, oils, watercolors, pastels, crayons, collage, mixed media,...), the right art-style (abstract, figurative, realistic, naive,...), my path and inspiration.

I have written about Aboriginal Dreamings Art before. A long time ago I had started copying a painting I felt inspired by but I never got any further than just the background and some lines. I have recently picked it up, read a bit in the book about techniques (such as dot-painting), picked up a stick and just started dotting.

And guess what? I find it very relaxing and fun. And the result is just amazing! So now I can't wait to get this copy finished and start doing my own creations. I'll show the painting when it's done.

The other painting I recently worked on and finished is another technique I experimented with and which consists of using air-dry modelling clay to sculpt objects which I then then glue on the canvas. In this particulare case, I sculpted tulips which I painted and glued on a small canvas; I then stapled the small canvas on a bigger one. The result is a 3D painting:

What do you think?