Follow your Heart!

Oh how many times have we heard these words!  And how many times have we not listened....

friends, what do you love?  Ask this of yourself often. Pay attention!!!! Nurture Joy! in  yourself, in the world, in your art. This painting happened because I LOVE LINE. I decided to start with a simple line drawing--not as a sketch to cover up, but simply because I  see beauty in a simple line. There is wisdom, essence--only what needs to be there. AND there are infinite ways to explore the creation of a line. A fantastic mind opening book on line is Line published by Barron's and written by two Spanish artists. I also got to fool around with pattern, color, and texture. I scraped, and scratched and layered, and wiped--just for the joy of it. This painting is called Awakening II. 

Changing our Mind

Hi Everybody and Welcome!

I am soooooooooooo excited about this new expression. And so THRILLED that it literally took me only a few minutes to make it happen. That's my topic today--how we limit our life (and art!)  by living  from the premise of old ideas that are no longer true. Despite all available evidence to the contrary, we still believe and act on OLD STUFF. The title of this painting is "All Evidence to the Contrary".  When we  tell ourselves a garbage thought about our Self--I am not enough. I can't. It will take a long time to do this. It will be alot of hard work.....QUESTION IT!  

Why can't it be easy and fun? Of course we can do it! Of course there is help available!

Of course Life is meant to be joyFULL and so is creating our art. Today,  be still and LET it flow. Let's let that inner critic take a relaxing hike in Hawaii while we are in paradise in our studios!

PS I am not sure if this painting is finished, but I was so excited about this blog  and this idea that I couldn't wait to share it. I started with collage and used a new technique of watercolor toner/crayon with gel medium smeared on top of it with my finger to make the drawing. I may still add some yellow paint in the middle of it. I love the idea of painting metaphors!