March 25th

These are all part of the series Im working on in various stages.  Some don't even look like this anymore.  I will post as I go along!

March 24th

So I am really expanding myself and in my new series my goal is to paint something I've never done or seen before.  This is just a start but the importance of a series is the learning along the way, whether I learn more about composition or color or simply how paint works.  These little pieces are only 11x11 on watercolor paper and this weekend I started about a dozen of them.  Just warm ups so that I am loose to paint on a larger surface.  So each time I enter the studio I am creating a new habit of WARMing up!
I figure you can't just start to workout without warming your muscles up first.  An artist I learn lots from  Bob Burridge always says that and for some strange reason I never did this…why?  Also with all these warm ups consisting of the same subject I now will have a series.  So all the paintings will be cohesive and if I have a show it will hang with consistency.  So try doing warm ups each time your in your studio…it doesn't even have to be paint.  You can warm up with big news print paper and charcoal, or big fat magic markers.  Anything to get you moving and out of your left brain and into your creative brain the right side!

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March 11 2014

Another start…what I like about this on so far is the passionate strokes I put down and didn't see any of it til i  stood back and looked at it again..this one Im excited about going back into and seeing what happens

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My groove is Back!

This is not done just at the very beginning stages but I'm excited because my groove is back and I'm not turning back.  I've been on this journey of paint and for a while I was studying color theory and honestly getting quite frustrated and depressed.  Then after not having fun in the studio and almost giving up my passion I decided that, "what if" I pretend I understood how to apply color theory and see what happens.  Guess what happened, I had fun again!  I do understand color and how it works, I just fully understand how to apply it and the only way anything will ever happen is if I just play with the paint like I love to and then see…..She's not done but I see more of myself in this piece then I have for a long time…
Lesson for me is it's to learn and try new things but don;t loose myself in the process.  I can never become who I am not…oxoxox

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Magical Journeys with Paint-Art Therapy - The UConn Daily Campus - University of Connecticut

Magical Journeys with Paint-Art Therapy - The UConn Daily Campus - University of Connecticut

March 3r 2014

Ok, this picture will have to be side ways!  I was spending too much time trying to figure out how to rotate it…i did on the computer and then I couldn't find it…lol, i have a mac for about a year now and I still dont' know how to use it good.  Any who, these are 3 different paintings, the series i started this weekend.  Each one i kept saying the words, "what if", and this is what i came up with so far.  I thought i found the second one more interesting but looking at them today I think I like the feel of the bottom one the best and can build on that!…  So I'm going to keep going and find out what i can learn.
Series are not just a collection of paintings but and exploration of the same subject to grow and learn from, to see what really works and does not.  So we'll see!

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March 2nd 2014

Reconnection is my "title", my going back place when I get lost in why I am doing this in the first place.  So I started some quick and i mean quick playing with this series I want to do.  I wanted to be big just to loosen up and not be serious.  I am actually using tempra paint just to play around with shape and values and composition.  After having fun with that I did pull out my canvas board and started my series of what is possible with Reconnection!  I actually had more fun playing and the idea of the what if's on my play paper then I did with my canvas board.  I became too involved with the outcome that I forgot to enjoy the process.  I stopped before I wanted to so I could go for a walk and shake that mind set of product and come back refreshed.
Try that next time something "isn't working"  just stop and jump around or shake your body to some music.  Go outside, go for a brisk walk, just something to get you out of left brain thinking and back over to right brain fun!

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February OOPS!

LOL!  I forgot today was March 1st!  This whole week has been a blur with the new job and all.  I usually look at big calendars all day everyday, scheduling and such so I really lost track of my days.
So week 1 is under my belt!  I turn to my studio this morning and still feel the remnants of the week and my head still spinning from learning so much!  I too am learning things in my studio from theory books….OVER LOAD!  I need to chill!  I spun around on my chair and saw my tutu hanging in my closet and took it as a sign to just play today and be free in my studio and not concern myself with "rules".  I have to loosen up!  So much fun and so thankful I saw the sign from the universe on the direction to take…thanks!
Look for signs you are given through out your day and see the direction universe is telling you to go, it's very interesting!
I also wanted to share another artist and website I get loads of tips and instruction.  Robert Burridge is one of my favs!  I took classes with Bob and he is loaded with lots of informative information to loosen up and be free in your studio.  Go check him out!  He has a news letter he does and this month like all the others has loads of info and books to add to your library.  I have read most of the ones he recommends and I also recommend!  

Free Play Improvisation

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

by Stephen Nachmanovitch

G.P. Putnam's Sons publisher

ISBN-10: 0874776317

ISBN-13: 978-0874776317

(buy at Amazon)

I just checked this out at the library so I can't wait to go through it!

A tip from me!  I have a new goal this year to NOT buy more books!  ( I am a book addict!)  So I made a packed with self to get them from the library and if they are a MUST have then I will put it in my eventually to buy list!  Keeps my pocket book in a little more of a check and balance, it's SOOOOO easy to click and buy!

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