Open your eyes

Can you hear the little bird telling her: "Open your eyes. Live your life. The time is now." That's what I hear so loudly that I didn't think I need to put the actual words on the canvas.

I love texture... Can you tell?

I wish I took more photos. She went through a lot of changes. My husband liked the white/red combination... so did I, but it felt unfinished so I continued. Fun!

The weather this weekend was phenomenal! The sun was shining more brightly than in the middle of summer. It was perfect for long, slow walks, grilling, bike rides... so good.

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Happy Monday!

Sketching

I can never be bored if I have a pencil and some paper around. I learned that from Hana.

When she was a tiny little girl she would draw for hours and hours and hours and never get tired of it.

Many times I took a book from the library about drawing and wanted to learn how to do it better, but could never make myself follow the rules and really think about it. One day maybe, because I really admire people that make magic with just a pencil and paper... Until then, I'll just keep sketching and having fun with it. Happy Thursday! xo

Norah wants to play...

When Norah wants to play - I play along. She said: deconstruct a foam brush, pour several puddles of paint and in 15 minutes paint (slap) a face. And I did.

Fun!

This was my reaction to the prompt in Mystele's class yesterday:

It's interesting how unhappy I was with it last night.... I was sad that I have so little time for art and that I can't work on her more, saw only the bad things etc. etc. Things are different today... now, for some reason I don't see the imperfections as a bad thing.  I just like this page. Weird. "Gut art" is good for the soul.

Sweet Voice

No texture on this one...... for once I enjoyed the texture of the canvas, so I left it to show through.

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Happy Saturday!

I love my weekends! Usually I start them very early (like 5 a.m.). This morning I painted this little one in my journal.
I don't know why... she just decided to live on the page.

Then I had returned to bed to relax some more, made a fresh juice from apples, oranges, carrots, beets, celery, ginger and red cabbage (YUM); had a nice talk with my Mom, and then decided to snap pictures of all the flowers I can see in our yard. I love that it is middle of October, leaves are changing colors, and yet - there is an abundance of colorful flowers around. This is what I saw:

It's not even noon! Saturdays are just the best... Hope you're having a great day too. xo

Heart tones

Listen to the tones of your heart...

I don't have any words today. Just the painting.

Have a happy day! Let go...

Friends

I paint faces, birds, butterflies... but never combined like this. This is "pulled art ". It was in the background. So much fun to paint this way!

Another face...

Friday afternoon

This lady took my sadness away.

I like this crop more than the whole image, the proportions are totally off.

Just as I thought, holding a brush did miracles for my mood. After painting this I was completely ready to enjoy the weekend.