This bird was the first thing I painted after my long break. I did not bring it to paper, because I felt like painting so strongly, but because this image was sitting in my head for so long and it was good to let it go in this way. I have painted another picture since then, but still do not feel the inner motivation to paint again which is sometimes hard to accept. Art is something I can not truly force, if I do for a longer time, it only happens that I get blocked even more and longer. This bird has the key in contrary to me. Maybe he will show me the way someday.
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I have been thinking about keys a lot recently. Or maybe they have been thinking about me - wanting me to think about them! :) Either way, the thought of bringing them into my art somehow is definitely simmering on the back-burner of this brain. More curious as I write this, I realize that this illustration of a bird with a key you posted is the second time in less than 30 minutes that I’ve seen a key (in art)! And just yesterday too, someone I follow on YouTube mentioned in her latest video that I’d recommended a book to her some months past and she bought it. The name of the book: The Golden Key! Surely I must follow the keys now? :)
Have you read that story?? It’s probably my all time favorite. There’s just something so perfectly imperfect in that story. Imperfect only in that it doesn’t answer all of the mysteries it suggests. There’s so much to wonder at and feel in your bones is somehow True despite those wonderments not being brought clearly into the bright light of Words.
It’s by George MacDonald and written sometime in the 1800s. His fantasy stories are wonderful. I highly recommend them, but especially if you haven’t already, The Golden Key! By the way, there is a book named that which is a collection of short stories by him, but it’s his actual story of The Golden Key that’s the most amazing. It’s available in many places free to read online.
I hope you have a lovely rest of your week 💙
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