Your Life

Ahhhhhhh....

In between work, phone calls, emails, waiting for phone calls, during the last couple of days, I created art. And I must say I feel better than last week when I hit the Winter Blahs (That's a capital B). To be honest, I'm not sure really what happened. I had tried to finish this piece back in August, but it wouldn't budge. Then in September...and October...Then I put it away. It just wasn't time for this one yet. Suddenly, yesterday, I felt it calling me and retrieved it from it's hibernation space. I could hear it quietly say, "It's time." So I got out my paint, my gel medium, some ink and paper and got to work. And it came forth...gently...easily. I love it when that happens.

"Your Life" is now in my Etsy Shop. This is one of my favorite pieces so far. Maybe because it made me wait for it. It's the last of the group of 9 Pieces I started in the summer. Now, I'm ready to begin my next group of 9...Time Traveling.

P.S. My daughter pointed out that there is one element that appears in almost all of my pieces. Leave a comment and guess the correct element and I'll send you a surprise. <wink!>

Passport to Here

 Another art piece from my series of "9 Pieces". 

You can find it also in my Etsy Shop (see the link in the sidebar).

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Journey of the Soul

 

 I have definitely been on a journey during the past year. A journey to finding my voice through art. I find I can say what want to better with color, form, composition, and symbolic elements than I can with words. These are my stories, my poems, my songs. These are what I experience along the journey of my soul.

Delight

August is turning into much delight.

 Things have been very busy around here and I have not posted as much as I would like to. I have, however, been accomplishing a great deal. At the beginning of the summer, I set several goals:

• Create a series of nine 8X8 pieces
• Send off an art submission
• Take a photoshop class
• Take more photographs
• Create a Flickr account 
• Open an Etsy shop

Many of these are being realized now! I am almost finished with my 9 piece series. I've already sent off my very first art submission! (Yay!) I am really enjoying Susan Tuttle's Photomanipulation classes. I having so much fun taking more photographs to have some more raw material to work with. If you have not taken one of Susan's classes, I highly recommend them. I've created my Flickr account and have been posting my photoshop projects to it. All of these seeds I've been planting will come to fruition very soon, I'm sure. 

Stay tuned!!

I'm currently enjoying a visit from my delightful Aunt and Uncle and will, undoubtedly be taking LOTS more pictures while they're here (if my daughter does not take my camera away from me. She's kidding. She secretly enjoys it). I will be posting more later. Until then...

 Here is one more of my finished pieces:

Freedom

Wishing you much delight in the coming week.

Beauti-full

I've been working on 9 8X8 canvas mixed media pieces and they are coming along. I have the first two finished and here is the first one entitled:

Beautiful

It is made around the theme of sensuality. I envisioned the goddess, unabashed and free. I used a bold red as the base layered with soft pinks, blues and gold on top to communicate this.  The images of birds and butterflies flying free and roses in full bloom symbolize that the goddess cannot be caged. She must be and IS free to express her love and power. The same love and power that animates butterflies, birds and roses, animates us. It cannot be contained, must not be contained, must be expressed, must be free. 

There are two images of goddesses on either side framing the word "Lover". 

I used acrylic paint, distress ink, paper, stamp images, and covered the whole thing with Mod Podge Matte to seal it. 

Here are some more close ups so the detail can be seen more clearly: