Rules: Don't let the canvas show ?#$%@*

So --- here I am getting my hair cut today by my dear friend sugarbaker Gina and she says that she got some input about my paintings from another friend (who I adore and love her work). The input was that some people don't realize that you shouldn't show any canvas behind your work. I struggled to find the open space on my canvas and was so hard pressed to see it - I had to put on my glasses.

Okay, all of you who know me - know that I am very rebellious. I hate rules...or rather dislike them since I don't hate anything really. So you know my interest spiked when I heard this feedback. Hmmm...I said, I guess she went to school and they told her that. I have another friend artist Wyanne, who has been buying wood canvas to paint her lovely paintings and uses the background (wood) to show through and become a part of her paintings. Okay, well maybe she planned it - and well, it does LOOK gorgeous, unlike my canvas peeking through that is obviously a place I missed with my paintbrush. :)

I want to break away from rules while still being respectful of the ones that make sense. So okay - I do agree that being messy and not covering your canvas "not on purpose" is probably not so "okay." But I am me, so I will move on thinking about that and probably purposefully not paint totally on my canvas just to see what it will reveal. It might be called, "opencanvasism" in the next 50 years - something that Wyanne and I started because we were rebellious or what we called "forward thinking."

So the moral of the story is....Let us open ourselves to new ideas and new ways and accept mistakes or evolve from "old rules" to pursue beauty. Break away from rules that bind you from creativity. Let it Be....sounds like a great song. :)