painting

  • Style

    So far with my art posts, I feel like I don’t necessarily have a ‘style.’  I don’t just paint a certain theme in a certain way – like animals in watercolour, buildings with acrylic or classic cars in pen and ink.  I really just like to play and create whatever…

  • Beginnings

    My first day of grade 1, I came home crying because I hadn’t learned how to read yet.  I was told grade 1 would be the year I could learn how to read a book by myself.  Just imagine my surprise when I wasn’t an expert the first day.  You…

  • Possibility

    I was reading in ‘The Artist’s Way’ the section on Recovering a Sense of Possibility. Oddly enough, the author Julia Cameron talks about Solitude in this chapter – which was my blog topic last week.  She also relays the importance of solitude for an artist, saying ‘without this period of…

  • Apprenticeship

    Having various experience is life enriching.  From ‘The Artist’s Way’: “All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.  The big art is our life.” This doesn’t necessarily have to be an ‘art’ but anything you are passionate, excited or curious about.  They can all be considered apprenticeship.  They don’t have to…

  • Help Yourself

    “Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.” -Zen Proverb I have been known to overthink things.  I also overthink the overthinking of things.  With my law of attraction learning, I have come to realize how much more power I have if I stop worrying and get…