I am moving!

I know I have been a bit delinquent in my postings. I promise that I have been working very hard...learning how to build a website, learning photoshop and increasing my classes. It has been fun and now I am ready to share what I have been up to with you!

The work was pretty intense, and I am very proud of the website. I had the opportunity to add a blog and did much thinking before deciding to switch to a new one.

I think you will enjoy, at the very least, a tour of my site and a visit to my new blog. I hope to be posting new paintings, thoughts on creativity and spirituality as well as my latest class information.

I do hope you will join me at my new artsite!

I have also changed my email address. you can contact me throught the site for updates.

Life at the speed of......

There are times when life just seems to move way too slow...

Like the rest of the world,

I want it all done yesterday,

website done..

paintings done...

lesson plans done....

Oh my, but it seems I am tripping over my own lists of "to do's"

Then this guy came around

with a bit if advice.

Slow down and enjoy the journey,

he says..lifting his tiny dinosaur head high to be sure

I hear him.

Take the time to sit in the sun and just breathe.

He posed so majestically.

Spring time has brought out him and his fellows,

along with so many flowers.

He is right, you know.

Life requires time to sweeten and be served up

properly.

So join me at Chesterfield Arts,

here in lovely St. Louis

August 6-10 for a deliciously wonderful

Art Journaling Camp for adults.

An entire week of Art Journaling!

All supplies are included,

so just show up with your cup of coffee and nibbles

and we will journal our sweet summer mornings

together.

Back from whence I was....

Oh it was a dream trip,

ten days of paint and whales

and a world of colorful sweet magic.

It inspired me.

It woke me up!

I had forgotten the part of me

that loved painting under the sun,cool breezes

and an occasional wild boccie ball.

That part of me that is oh so in love with nature as

sacred spirit,

as sacred inspiration!

Amazing Sea People joined in,

sparkling with turquoise light,

a light I didn't even know as possible.

they danced for me every morning,

convincing me to love the world

with my paintbrush.

So I did:

And then, some more....

By the end of the stay even the stars danced

in the night sky,

shining in ways that were rare and wonderous.

I painted even more....

My heart was opened and my brush set free

in a new direction.

Now, like another middle Earth girl

who wandered over the rainbow,

my job is to be awake to the wonders

in my own backyard.

I have been painting springtime

in Middle Earth.

Daffodils and Redbuds,

cloud shows of all kinds.

I will share more as they come to be.

Great thanks to my beloved host and hostess.

You will never know what a great gift you gave me

those magical ten days.

Mahalo.

Haiku my Heart Friday

Shadings of grey dust,

Dance across canvas threads.

Life is in all art.

An ethereal child,

created out of charcoal dust,

as, perhaps we all may be.

Pushing and pulling,

lights and darks,

discovering in the end

that creating is the stuff of life.

Created and Creator

resonating.

Discover the other Artists of Haiku my Heart joined together by the Artist Rebecca at

Recuerdo Mi Corazon



I got Sunshine.......

I had a conversation

yesterday

about dealing with homesickness

when one travels.

I thought, how funny,

if I have some paint and my brushes,

I am always at home.

Even on the darkest day,

I can find sunshine

at the end of my brush.

Haiku my Heart Friday

Deep in Winter's bed

Spirit wildly weaves new life,

And stars dance overhead.

Here in Middle Earth, we have had a milder

than mild winter,

but winter just the same.

New dreams are being dreamt.

New life seems to be promising

to burst forth just about any moment.

I feel like I am breathing

in the space between,

Winter and Spring.

Half dreaming, half unfolding

to promises of change.

Doodling about.....

Amidst all the confusion

of a computer losing its memory and coming down with the flu,

and company from afar,

and traveling spouse,

I decided I needed a little extra something

to do with my time.

You know, those moments between

cleaning, cooking, knitting and working.

So to fill those empty moments with something besides sleeping..

you know I am an insomniac anyway,

I joined two online projects.

The first is

"The sketchbook challenge"

Do visit their site.

A monthly challenge is given

and participating artists send almost daily emails showing their wonderful sketchbook ideas.

There are prizes and inspirations galore.

A monthly challenge ,

I thought,

I can do.

The first, for the month of January is simply

"doodling"

 I realized most of my real doodles

live in my art journal

as mixed media sorts of doodling.

Like the lady above and this one:

The first is done with reinker inks and white acrylic. The second is done with collage and paintsticks...all on gold gessoed pages

in an old book rescued from a closing library.

I lived, for many years,

not in Middle Earth, but in the Wild Wild West.

Out in the wildness, there were faces of many sorts,

not just white, but more colorful,

more varied arrangements of nose and eyes and lips.

I miss that. I want to honor that Wildness:

So my doodles are wandering strokes of

paint and paper,

wandering thoughts of women

I have known or wanted to know.

Doodles of a different sort.

I ALMOST FORGOT..

the other project I jumped into is this one

with Flora Bowley.

This one doesn't start until net month,

so I have plenty of time for more painted doodles.