I am a “weekend artist” who loves the freedom of splashing brightly colored paint on blank canvases and discovering what they can become. Once a fellow artist gave me some artistic advice that helped take my work to a new level. She shared that when looking at a photograph or a picture that I was using as inspiration to…
Turn it upside down.
Turning the image upside down helps you to see it in a whole different way. It changes your perspective. It releases you from seeing something as you think you ought and allows you to see it with new eyes. Turning the familiar upside down allows one to see the unfamiliar in a novel way.
Have you ever felt stuck? In a rut? Days seem to go by in a ho hum kind of way? Life is at a standstill?
Turn it upside down.
Allow yourself to see things in a new way. Be inspired by the upside down view. You may just decide that “standing on your head seeing” is just what you needed to move forward again with a skip in your step!
“I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.” Tibor Kalman
