Quote I've been practiceing meditation, setting medition and Chi Gong.  I find it intesting that the quiet and the peaceful place you go while meditating, feels somewhat like the place you go into while creating art.  Nothingness but yet somewhere.  present but not.  All artist know of this place we go while creating.  We call it the zone.  Where we are not aware of time.  The focus is so intense that your not even aware of yourself painting.  The brush seems to take on a life of its own.  Hours can go by but it seems like minutes.  The Eastern religions talk about artist and creativity and the zone.  The intense focus where the higher self takes ahold of the brush.  Creating at the highest level of consciousness. 

Seeing pictures of paintings in the mind

Closing my eyes while awake.  I can see pictures of paintings unpainted.  They are so vivid and the color use is unusual and beautiful.  I can look up close and see the detail of a tree trunk, leaf, rocks, water, waves or anything in the painting.  They are all landscapes some abstract, some impressionist and expressionist.  I tried to see if other artist had experienced this but didn't get to much information except as one artist put it, lay back and enjoy the show.  One thought was that I was thinking art so much that my unconscious was creating on its own.  If thats true wish the unconscious would pass on the expertise to paint them.  One artist said that my hormones were probably off as the artist thought I was having these images while sleeping thus having sleep deprevation but thats not the case, I'm wide awake just my eyes are closed. 

Imagination is a funny thing.  No one knows what lerks in the mind of an artist.  My thought is  we think demensionally exposing the feelings we have at any given time when we create.