Creativity and Innovation

I warn you - its addictive -- I have painted a zillion pears since I first saw him painting his pears and then spotted this video on negative painting !   I will keep painting them - each one is unique and different and each one exciting to paint and I have branched out to Aubergines, peppers, tomatoes   I even became excited to spot some awesome pears in the supermarket ! Here is my very first pear - painted very quickly - this one is not negative painting but influenced by Robert Burridge's style on his very quick pear paintings - more to come - many more  :)

                    

The beautiful Passionflower, a symbol of passion for living, loving, and zest for the quest of life itself but a re you doing what you want with your life  ?    How do you recapture that zest for life, when the spark has gone and you need to re-ignite it ?  The fastest way I know is to take up something you have a passion for and it will spread across into all areas of your life.  Without a passion your life there is nothing but humdrum, and definitely no leaping up and down with excitement and anticipation of the unknown with expectation instead of dread.   I am biased of course :), but my own preference is for art and creativity but passion can come in many forms, it could be a passion for collecting obscure objects that would drive anyone else nuts, it could be music, gardening, might be trekking by yak over the Himalaya's, Bungy jumping,  analyzing the stock market or a zillion other things but without some passion for something discontent becomes boredom.   The ans