Painting in the Bush

Took some canvases out in the bush trying to work from our old Landrover... and it was amazing! love this place - inspiration everywhere!

Come Drawing with us!

The website http://www.drawingsafaris.com/ is now officialy launched! It explaing in images and words what a drawing safari is about and how it is organized. A completely new way to be out in the Wild suitable for profesionals as well as amateurs. Even if you have never drawn before but just have a wish to do so come!. I can show you the basics. And I promise that after this you will look at the world around you differently...

Studio dreams...

I't raining, a perfect time to light up the fire and read a good book in the studio with music in the bacground... My dogs seem to agree... closest to Xmas feeling we can get here in the bush;)

It is also a nice time to work at my sketchbooks and read in them: I often gather snippets of information from here and there mixing them with own thoughts and ideas. a hands-on-blog so to speak;)

musings... as usual probably too philosophical but what the heck...

launching my drawing safari website and have as a goal to blog more - not regularly but only when I find something that can be of interest - quotes, ideas... I have worked with my sketchbooks like that for a long time, and several people have asked me to publish them - but I thought: why not put some of those things here? then lets see... quite a few might find it a bit... stuck up, and all I can say as a defence is - what do you expect after 7 years of studying philosophy? I like it, thats all... I think deep thoughts and thinking adds to the beauty of life. and personally I get rather sick and tired of blah-blahs and funnyisms after too long (but no bad feelings, gotta have some fun too!) Most of the things that resonates with me these days are connected to creativity in some form or another, thereby to life itself. To dare to create in a true and honest way despite shortcomings and warts and inkspots and all is not a small thing.

the first quote of the day is from Carl Rogers, the american psychologist and founder of the "person-centered" therapy (he was, by the way also a friend of Martin Buber).

"There is a desperate social need for the creative behavior of creative individuals" he wrote as early as 1952

It is interesting to se that this still rings true today.

and how do we get there?

well, lets look at what Seth Godin has to say about it in "Tribes":

"The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success"

so, with that I will take my sketchbook outside in this glorious sunny day and see if I can come up with a new way to catch the colours of this landscape around me that I have come to know so well...

ciao!

Mariane