Different

Change yourself and your work will seem different. -Norman Vincent Peale 

I painted this lady and her cat in a way that I never did it before. Was it laziness or willingness to experiment - I'm not sure. I didn't mix the skin color (or any other color) on my palette. I used colors straight from the tube on the paper and mixed them while quickly painting with a very scruffy brush. You can see the red, yellow, blue and white... I deliberately left them unblended at places. It was interesting. She looked very weird at moments, but at the end - I like the result. Try it! There is nothing like feeling completely free, enjoying the process and not having any expectations. Lovely feeling.

Happy weekend!

Inspiration

Inspiration comes from different places. For example - yesterday I visited the farmers market because I love green markets and because we were scary low on fresh produce.

 As you can see, I brought back a whole lot of fall colors (and yummy things to eat).

Looking at all the pretty colors made me want to paint with them too, so I chose six colors + white, found a piece of wood and started.

The colors on my palette are: Hookers Green Hue, Pyrrole Red, Hansa Yellow Medium, Green Gold, Transparent Red Iron Oxide, C.P. Cadmium Orange.

I was happily painting, thinking that I will stay with the calm tones and a simple background (for a change), when a collage sheet that I recently made called me....

I cut up some parts...

...combined them, painted washes of color over, played and enjoyed the process.

So, there it is.....
Inspiration is interesting - shows up anywhere and leads us to follow interesting roads.  From a visit to farmers market to a messy table with images in hand's reach... I had a fun afternoon and finished a painting.

I created several digital collage sheets from my original paintings. If you would like to play and use them in your art visit my etsy shop. I will be adding more (and probably incorporating more in my paintings and journal pages).

Happy November

Gratitude is the best atitude - Author Unknown
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
 You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I decided that this November is going to be my power month. There are many things running through my mind, some of which I expressed through words in my painting of a night angel.

Kindness, forgiveness, grace, gratitude, compassion..... not bad things to focus on (I think).

Wishing us all a happy, creative November!

This and that....

Hello! Good morning! It's a rainy Saturday morning and for some reason - this kind of weather is making me happy today! I hope that it will be cold enough so that we can light the fire place. Isn't that a strange wish - I hope it will be cold enough? lol

I enjoyed reading your coffee comments. Eight big coffee drinkers and two non-drinkers (I'm not completely sure about Julie - she mentioned 2 weeks, so it might be temporary). Jacqueline asked do we have coffee pads here in USA, and I don't know... I know that there are little plastic individual coffee thingies (and whenever I see them I think about millions of them polluting the Earth), but I don't know about the pads. If you know the answer - please write it in the comments.

I never dressed up for Halloween as an adult. I've also never, ever been on a party where people are masked. How about you? Do you enjoy dressing up as something/someone different? I really loved what Alica Burke did. Check this link to see her creative idea. 

I wanted to thank everyone that purchased a painting or two from my etsy shop this month. My October sale is coming to an end. On Monday I will be changing the prices for some paintings, and removing some from the shop. So, if you had your eye on one, there are two more sale days left so take advantage of it.

I'm going to blend a frozen banana, couple of tablespoons of pumpkin, almond milk, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla and maple syrup and enjoy a pumpkin-pie smoothie for breakfast. Sounds good? I can't wait!

xo

Have a very happy weekend! 

I miss it....

Can you guess what am I missing?

Coffee..... I miss my morning coffee. I stopped drinking coffee a month ago, and most of the days I don't even think about it. Today, for some reason, I couldn't stop... so I painted it in my journal.

I stopped because I was adding more and more of the fake creamer things (Belgian Chocolate Toffee was a favorite).... and then I read the ingredient list and was horrified. Definitely not something that I would like to consume every day. So I stopped drinking coffee altogether. All or nothing... sigh....

How about you? Do you drink coffee?

Dreamer

Fun journals

Hidden journal.

A place where you can:

It's also a place where you should:

A place to feel safe.

Hidden journal. Journal with a secret.

What's hidden?

 Where is the secret?

Remove the spine and reveal another journal.

Isn't that fun? Two journals in one?
I plan on playing in one of them. I'll show you the results.

I didn't have time to edit all the photos. If you are interested in one of the journals not listed in my shop, just send me an email.