Art Journal Project - Week 17 - Alive

This is my attempt at gluing on a cut-out from a magazine. I’m afraid I’m not a cut-out from magazine type of girl… but here it is anyway. The photo is of flowing lava and symbolizes being grounded and living in the “flow”. The background is kind of the cosmos… where I usually am - my head anyway. The message is about living here on earth – doing what it takes to be ALIVE. The quote is from the prompt. The rest starts out as "A Wise Woman told me to get out of my head...", and the rest is blurry on purpose. Can't share everything!

Art Journal Project - Week 13 - Queen of Something

...Maps. I’d have to say, if I'm the Queen of anything, besides my own castle, I'm the Map Queen. I can find my way home from anywhere. I’ll never get lost unless I want to, or if the map is wrong, or there isn’t one. It’s kind of interesting, to me anyway, that I drew I-90 on there with arrows at each end pointing HOME. Boston on one end… what a long ride that would be… and Seattle on the other. Either way WOULD take me home...

Art Journal: Week 16 - Landscape

O Moon …How is it you are one of my favorite things to gaze upon… Yet, I can’t remember the last time I saw you?

Peace

Tonight thousands of peace vigils will be held in support of Cindy Sheehan and all the other mothers who have lost sons or daughters in Iraq. I will light a candle to add my energy for peace to that of everyone else's. I love the idea of all this energy swirling around at the same time, sending peaceful vibes to the people of the world.


Picasso's Face of Peace

I'm Going to Art School!

I wrote in my august goals that I was going to sign up for "an" art class... well I did it! But I went above and beyond... I signed up for THREE!!!! Children's Book Illustration, Beginning Drawing, Painting Techniques Survey. Happy Happy, I can't wait till they start!! Oh, and I also became a member of the Kirkland Arts Center. So... it's not really "Art School"... but close enough for this girl.

Pictures

Sunflower Shower



Pout Pose



Sour Grapes

Art Journal Project: Risk

It says: For the longest time she had wanted a little diamond freckle on her nose, but she thought the world was saying “That is a stupid idea”. She thought she heard: “You are neither pretty enough nor ugly enough to get away with one of those”, and, “Why would you want to draw attention to your nose?” and, “What would people think?” So... she didn’t do it. Somewhere in the back of her mind a little voice whispered things like “Who says you are not pretty enough?” and, “Why do you care what people will think?” and, “What is wrong with your nose, anyway?", and the little voice grew louder and louder until she couldn’t ignore it any more… and on that day… she got one.

Magic Tongue

It is pure joy for me to watch Luke draw or paint a picture or cut something out of paper these days as he is at that age where anything he does with his hands, especially if it requires extra concentration, is accompanied by a wild tongue dance. His tongue is enchanted with magic powers that help him create and do and be - it moves at lightning speed and travels many miles in even one simple drawing of a person or a jellyfish. I try not to laugh out loud, because he is so Serious and Intent on his work, but sometimes I can't help it - that tongue is just flittering and fluttering and swooping around - and then I just tell him it's his creation that makes me so happy, which is also the truth.

Here is the box Luke has been making while I've been making mine. I think it rocks.

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Wish Box

Have I mentioned I'm taking Sonia Choquette's Heart's Desire course? It's all about creating and manifesting what you want. Part of it says to make a box, she calls it an alchemy box, to put your dreams in for safe-keeping while you and the universe work on manifesting and creating them.

This is the outside of my wish box - I've been making it for days.



And this is the inside. It's simple and plain, but that is fine, because what I put IN it is going to be very interesting and exciting!

Poppies

Art Journal Project: Home

Still have not found mine... but am thinking a lot about it. Here is another entry in the Art Journal Project. Home is where you plant your heart. I am a transplant. There are little pieces of my heart all over the world...

New Beginnings: Week 1 of Art Journal Project

I started a new Art Journal Project. I don't know that I'll share each entry, but here is the first assignment. The prompt was "new beginnings" or "why are you starting this journal?". I would love to see my art progress through the 20 assignments - I think this entry looks childish... but the hand is mine with the energy symbol in it, the stars and splatters signify the Universe and endless possibilities... by the end, I hope I have the beginnings of a defined personal style going on. We will see. Go away inner critic - it's supposed to be fun and a new adventure. Crayon, watercolor, marker.

Caught Redhanded

Aging

Here is my entry for Illustration Friday - the topic this week is "Aging". Inspired by this photo, it's just a digital manipulation.

Andee's Tree

My friend Andee in Germany is an amazing photographer. Be sure to visit her site - it's wonderful. One of her shots inspired me to do a quick sketch. Here it is:

March of the Penguins

I took Luke to see a very powerful movie today. The March of the Penguins. Let me just say I hope never to return in a future life as an Emperor Penguin. What an amazingly hard life they live. The movie is a National Geographic documentary about a year in the life of a clan of penguins... how they travel by foot for over 70 miles and choose their mate for the year, the amazing love they seem to share for that short time and the pride and sorrow they go through as parents... how the father penguins share equally in the struggle to protect their offspring, the hardships they endure, the journeys they make for food and the survival of the chicks... and yet, in the end, it seems like it's all worth it. Really, a beautiful movie.

Tranquility

I have started painting again this week after oh... almost 20 years off. I'm really enjoying it. I was up until midnight last night painting these two and when I was done, I looked in the mirror and I can't tell you how happy I was to see my face covered in blue and green speckles. I think I am more excited about that than I am about the paintings. I've decided to put the first on in Illustration Friday.

My New Home

I painted this as a creative visualization tool to find my new home in Edmonds, Washington.



My house is an affordable and adorable older (early 1900's) home with charm and character, a front porch, fenced in yard, a fabulous fireplace, a cook's kitchen, is light and bright and has amazing happy energy. There are sidewalks and it is in walking distance to Luke's new school and to the coffee shop and art gallery too.

Everything is lined up and I'm just waiting for my home to go up for sale, waiting for the universe to guide me to it. It's out there just waiting for me to find it. It really is, I know it. (Soon, Universe, soon, ok?)

Two Angels

Today Luke and I had to go to Seattle and parking can be bad where we were going and so when we were almost there I asked Luke to ask his angels to help us find a parking spot - and he answered back "I already did, Mom". I had to laugh. So I asked mine too and as we pulled into the garage where there is rarely a spot mid-day... there were two spots, side by side, right by the door. One from his angel and one from mine!