I always say to my class participants that there are three rules in art

1. There are no rules in art
    
2. There are no mistakes in art (just beautiful blunders)
    
3. If at first you don’t succeed smoosh some paint and start again!!

SMOOSH is such a great word. SMOOSHING PAINT. It sounds like what you are actually doing. Smooshing, playing and creating .
 
The beauty of the smoosh is that it doesn’t have to look like anything, or become a final painting. You are just smooshin’ paint.
 
And you don’t even need a paintbrush – you can smoosh with your fingers (my preferred method) or a card or a sponge or a stick.
 
There are no rules to smooshing, and you can smoosh again and again and again until you love the result.
 
I wish I could apply the same principles to life. I wish I could smoosh over the things I don’t like. I wish it were that simple to move on and start again.
 
I’d love to smoosh paint over a hurtful comment that made me doubt myself and feel pain. 
 
I’d love to smoosh paint over the feelings failure and of being not good enough because an event or a committee or a person says I am not enough.
 
I really want to smoosh over those times when I felt a storm brewing in me and feeling like I am going to implode 
 
I’d really love to smoosh some paint over my neighbour and her judgment of my family and me 😉 
 
So Instead of dwelling too long on the things I’d love to change I try to remember that smooshing some paint on the page and making some art makes me feel centered and restored. (And hand on heart there are many times I spend FAR too much time overthinking and dwelling on these things.) 
 
I know not every one has an affinity with paint like I do. And I know that there are many of you who have told me (in one way or another) that you would love to smoosh paint over the crappy stuff you’ve been through.
 
I smoosh paint and try again – what about you? 

P.S Try the smoosh! It feels so good.

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