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I don\u2019t know about you but for the past few days, weeks even, I\u2019ve been feeling a bit listless, a bit blah, a bit draggy. Sure I have work to keep me occupied, for instance, the work I need to do preparing classes, critiques, and demos for my IGNITE! membership<\/a>, and the work I’ve been doing to help my partner Cam and his colleague Julia get their website for On Conflict Institute<\/a> up and running. But when it comes to studio work, I feel unmotivated and so basically, I don\u2019t make art. Yet I know<\/em> it will make me feel better to do some creative work. I know<\/em> that action is the antidote to these feelings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days ago, there came a tipping point. Despite having work that urgently needed doing, I basically said, screw it, all of it can wait. I need to do this for my own sanity. Rather than dithering about, I need to take actual action. And like I always say, it\u2019s the process of painting<\/a> that will both help us grow as artists and also soothe our yearning soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And sure enough, when I committed an hour each day for three days in a row to being IN my studio, to looking through photos and choosing one image, to creating various thumbnail options of it, and finally, putting pastel to paper, my joy indicator skyrocketed! Oh my, the process of pastelling, of feeling the texture of pigment go down on paper, of being immersed in the creative flow, there\u2019s just nothing<\/em> else quite like it. And truly, taking action is the antidote for those mopey apathetic feelings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since it\u2019s nice to have some visuals, let me take you through a few of my painting steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ontario landscape on an overcast day – the drive to Sherwoods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three compositional thumbnail options I tried. I felt all could work but I chose to try the middle option.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Simple vine charcoal drawing on UART 320 grade paper, 6 x 9 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three first layer colours in three values creating my underpainting. It was an overcast day yet in the wooded area, there was a feeling of warmth so I chose a cool underpainting. It just happened to end up being monochromatic! I wasn’t sure about adding more light value on the road. You can see I didn’t include it in my thumbnail but I’ve applied the pastel very lightly so all sorts of change are possible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adding the next layer of colour. You can see I’m using warmer colours over the cool purples.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adding layers as I feel my way along in building the painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adding more details. You can see how I warmed the foreground, giving the driveway a more red-violet blush. I’m using colour temperature to help with aerial perspective, in other words, to help with the illusion of depth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I scumble a bit of mid-value purple over the middle-upper greens to push them back a bit. I realize it’s all got a bit fussy and that I wasn’t working with care. It was time to walk away. I left it alone until the following day. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Coming back to the pastel the next day, I realized I’d lost my main focus, the reason I’d chosen to do this particular composition, namely the small patches of light coming through the trees onto the driveway in the distance. So I rectified that! I also wanted to create the feeling of being closed in by the trees above my head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A wee break and when I came back, I could see that the light patches with darker purples surrounding them gave a feeling of sunlight coming through. But I wanted to make sure we could feel it wasn’t a sunny day but rather, a bright overcast one so I adjusted for that. Soon though, I realized I could fuss this to death so it was time to call it quits!! Gail Sibley, “The Light in the Distance,” Unison Colour pastels on UART 320 grade paper, 6 x 9 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unison Colour pastels used in the piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And, there you have it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve been avoiding the studio or just feeling listless and uninterested in doing much, then I promise, taking action is the antidote. Really. You will<\/em> feel better just for having done something, and in the doing itself. This applies not only to art but to life in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sooo, do tell me if this action-is-the-antidote idea makes sense to you. Is this something you know, understand, and DO already? Or are you unfamiliar with this concept? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how are you<\/em> feeling these days, two months into the global pandemic? How is COVID-19 affecting YOU? I’d love to know so please do leave a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~ Gail<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PS. Need a bit more taking action encouragement? Check out this blog<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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