Spreading the love!

  
It’s time to celebrate love (why wait for Feb 14?). Get 25% all my prints, cards and pins, until Feb 4. Use this code at checkout: LOVETHEHEARTS

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Studio Tuesday: Free Print Today Only!

“Seek”, 8″ x 8″, $240

I seek safety, and I seek excitement.
I seek reassurance, and I seek independence.
I seek integrity and I seek vulnerability. “Seek”, 8″ x 8″

FREE PRINT with purchase of any painting, today only.
Other available paintings can be seen here.

New Prints!

I’ve listed several new prints in my shop – affordable art for everyone! 🙂

Add some SelfLove365 to your Life!

Many of you know that I am in my second year of the SelfLove365 project. This year, I am writing (minimum of one sentence a day), inspired by the inchie square that I drew last year, on the same date. The visual project was published in Somerset Studio magazine last year, and many people have asked me if I would make prints of the project. I did, and they are finally here! The printing job is fantastic – the original project was made on two separate sheets of paper, but through the wonders of computers, it now looks like a seamless piece of artwork!

Get yours from my Etsy shop HERE.

Cool Stuff Promo!

Everything in my Society 6 shop is $5 off with FREE SHIPPING! Yahoo! Enjoy! Make sure to click here to get the promo link! Promotion expires November 9, 2014 at Midnight Pacific Time. *Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Rugs

Helping a friend.

WHAT:

This is for my dear friend Nicole Hartley Bradford… I met her through 5Rhythms dance classes. Ever since meeting Nicole, she has been promoting me and my art, helping me in ways that are so valuable to me. I know she does the same for other people.

HOW:

For the next six days, I will be donating the proceeds of my sales (paintings, cards, magnets, pins, prints, etc) to Nicole. Please help support her by getting my art into your home! You are welcome to come visit my studio to purchase, and I will also be listing more items to my Etsy shop shortly. I might even do a painting auction.. fun!

WHY:

Nicole has a vision for how she wants to live in this world, and she needs financial help to do it. In her words:

“Friends, I feel hopelessness and bad luck are winning today. My catch 22 of having blocks inside me that keep me from prospering and needing that prosperity to get what I need and clear the blocks is feeling like a hopeless loop.

I’m due to have my girls during the month of August but that means spending money I have yet to make.

I see that’s the story of my life. I said yes to the children I was given, and my energy, attention, nurturing was directed to them rather than to building a career. As a single mom for 8 years, I learned to cope in poverty and I put my own share into remembering my self to heal my blocks.

Evidently, I haven’t got caught up.

20 years later here I am in poverty.

Poverty doesn’t define me, as I trust many if you will attest. I have claimed in good part, the gifts I have been given to pass on: a clear vision, storytelling, grace, creativity, bravery, connectivity, healing, passion…

But poverty makes it very hard to keep the faith, and to keep my core in peace.”

Please visit my Etsy shop for more listings!

Prints! and parenting… and procrastination.

It’s been over year since I had the idea of making printed reproductions of my paintings. It took me months to research the place to do get it done, another few months to get it done, and another few months to actually tell you about it.

My “To Do” list is so long, that very little actually gets done. After painting (which takes most of my time), there is not much time in my day left for the other things I would like to do. I can accept this. I am a mother of three children, so my time is split between household responsibilities, and my artistic career. I am not willing to put in the night hours, working after my children are in bed – that would make me insane (after making me tired, cranky, and probably sick). My evenings are usually filled with dancing or class meetings, or spending time with my hubby. Sometimes I wonder if I just don’t take myself seriously enough, but mostly, I feel like I have a good balance. So, when I am wondering why I am not in galleries yet, or why I am not selling more paintings yet, or why there isn’t a greater demand for my work yet, I remind myself that I get what I put into this process, and this is as much as I am willing to put in right now.

Rarely do I remember to look back to pre-2009, but I should. I can remind myself of how far I have come. Before 2009, I knew I wanted to be an artist. No wait, I knew I was an artist, but I was so good at procrastinating, and kept putting off creating. There was something really scary about starting on the path of becoming an artist. Scarier than a blank canvas, scarier than the blank page – this was a blank path, and I was so scared to take that first step.

I’m so glad I did.

(just do it)

My prints are available in my Etsy shop. I still have one more to list – it might take me another few weeks to do that (ha!).