Shades of Life

To the good, the bad and the ugly I would add the beautiful. Hurt and pain is popular in cinema, but we prefer it’s opposites in our daily life.

However challenging, we usually can find also joy in our existence, if we only develop the skill of seeing life’s marvels.

Where I often only saw pain, I’m often laughing knowing that it will pass and it’s better to concentrate on the present moment and enjoy what is.

Searching for happiness rarely succeeds. Being aware of myself right now often is blissful.

Happy Sunday

her

Sometimes I’m not sure where a painting is going.

I keep on adding layer after layer because something is off. And so they pile up. More emotions, more thoughts, more memories and then it gets even harder to be content with this tangled net of paint strokes.

This was definitely the case here. Only once I started to uncover the lower levels did it start to make sense.

Often in life it’s hard to grasp the overall idea governing your life. Or at least me life. But then there’s that moment when you’re in the now as Elkhart Tolle says. And it does make sense or often it doesn’t have to and it still does.

I have a lot of these glimpses when I paint.

him

It was my birthday and my daughter suggested that we all paint something. We had previously considered whether to paint one picture together, but in the end each created his own.

In the past, I typically tried to create something that resembled the paintings I love and admire and to accurately reflect my vision. This time I allowed myself to paint, whatever was inside me and wanted to come to light.

I can’t remember when creating something has brought me so much joy. I finished first and didn’t feel the need to improve anything. It’s a wonderful feeling to just to be satisfied with your work.

For me, this character is me, even though the title suggests otherwise. It shows to me how hard it is to accept oneself, the truth about myself, contradictory with the self-image I’ve created in my head.

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