Optimism, Fox and the path to take

In discovering Optimism....I took the risk and order more of the Gloss medium, though I didn't order the Golden Brand...a bit to pricey. I ordered the Nova Colors 206 gloss medium because it was like 20 dollars cheaper per gallon.  Works just as well. Any ways...why because I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.  And I decided to pull out the piece that's been slowly talking to me over the last few months to relook at the ideas I had and what possibly could still happen and maybe change.  Why I stopped is other life stuff was calling my attention and the path of good creative intentions had a detour. I didn't come back till now. 

Too wild,  I keep picking a card out of Inner Compass deck- Potential, In the last few weeks it's been three times...I read it each time and did my deeper thought process and when its intuitively suggested this way.  It's time to stop and really look at the reality of it all.  

Which moves me into Week 2 of Finding Water. 

(Julia Cameron's book)

Through this journey of life (personal inventory) and art there are many times to call on the internal support, Greater Spirit and my own resilience.  Connections through books, others words and listening too.  

I'm going to share the Card reading now. 

Stop limiting your potential. When you worry about  the outcome the changes that something unfolds exactly like you want it to are extremely rare. Simply because there are so many other possibilities. When ever you become attached to a certain result, you run the viable risk of disappointment. However if you manage to eliminate your expectations you will be able to accept what ever situation. In other words, there is no attachment to a result, so nothing to worry about. This cared offers you the chance to map out your assumptions and expectations as a means of honest reflections. What do you expect from the other?  And from yourself? Do not assume anything. Be compassionate and grateful with yourself for having well-intentioned hope. That slowly open yourself to an alternative out come for the situation. Do you now see that everything is possible? Nothing is set in stone. Life would be colorless if everything would go exactly how you want it to. It only gets magical and wondrous when you surrender to all the potential outside of your frame of reference. Life knows what you need better than anything that you can dream up or imagine with your mind. 

Oh how this relates to the art making process to.  

Here is a fox I created from papers I had made...ideas were flowing and then I looked at the picture of the fox I was using for a reference and judged mine with the photo.  I wasn't sure how the end result was going to look with this fox and everything after wasn't good enough for the end result. Time for sure had to be in this process.  Because as you can see from the photo above I've pulled it out again and the end result is to create a collage on the surface of the orange board I painted and this image will be used just as it is.  Because this is my fox and how it came out in the moment of creating. The whites aren't in the places as the photo but we can still tell it's a fox and I like his playful colors.  

Here I sit at the computer writing about this in my hopeful prayer of letting all results go, surrendering to the life force in all of us. Struggling no,  just understanding better.