Beating out the sad.

I get into a cycle of shame when I try to beat myself out of sad and into gratitude. Constantly need to relearn that each feeling has its place, and needs to be felt. It can’t be beaten out of me with gratitude.

Painting with lots of colour helps me to keep going. The not-good-enough story is working hard to perpetuate itself today. I need to get under the sun.

I want you to have this painting. Make me an offer. ❤️

SelfLove365: Birth & The Best

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 82: Birth

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 83: The Best

SelfLove365: Little Girl, & Capable.

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 80: Little Girl

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 81: Capable

I am Safe (Pay what you want)

PLEASE SHARE! It’s ‪#‎tbt‬ and time to PAY WHAT YOU WANT!

 

The other day, someone said, “It must be hard to let your babies [paintings] go, and I responded that I don’t consider them to be my babies. Once I have created them, I allow them to go out into the world, to become part of someone else’s world; I am not attached to them in a clinging way. The day after this conversation, I read this in Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic”:

 

“Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made and what it has made me into. Creativity has hand-raised me and forged me into an adult.”

 

However, I do have my favourites – there are some paintings I wish to keep around a little longer, or to be able to visit once in awhile. This is one of them. I feel especially happy about finding a new home for these favourites of mine.

 

1. Today only, send me a message telling me about attachment, and how it has hindered or helped you.

 

2. What is your offer? (Shipping and handling are extra).

 

3. I will contact you tomorrow!

 

“I am Safe”, watercolour and ink on paper, 4″ x 6″, May, 2011.

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 75 & 76

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 75: Human After All

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 76: Abundance

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 74: Vulnerability

SelfLove365, Year 3, Day 74: Vulnerability

Pay What You Want!

It’s #tbt and time to PAY WHAT YOU WANT!

I used to feel there was something missing from my art – the feeling of wild, carefree fun and play. Now I can see that it’s not so much that there was something lacking, but that I just hadn’t tapped into it yet. My older paintings show another side of me: the controlled, organized, methodical nature in me, but I think the colours give a hint to my other parts.

1. Today only, send me a message telling me about how you have changed in the past four years.

2. What is your offer? (Shipping and handling are extra).

3. I will contact you tomorrow!

“New Day”, acrylic on paper, 18 x 26 cm, Feb. 2010.

Studio Tuesday: Pay What You Want!

PAY WHAT YOU WANT!

I continually need to remind myself that just because I this isn’t “serious” art, doesn’t mean it isn’t important. I have so much fun playing with colour. And as my wonderful friend Lindsay Murdoch reminded me, FUN IS IMPORTANT.

1. Today only, send me a message telling me how you have fun, or any other thoughts on fun.

2. What is your offer? (Shipping and handling are extra).

3. I will contact you tomorrow!

“Now is the Time”, acrylic on canvas, 10″ x 10″.

Finished and SOLD!

I painted this at the Lovecraft Gallery last night, and sold it on the spot! Woohoo! I love when that happens!

  

The trees never ask for attention.

If you read yesterday’s post, then you know there were lots of tears, and lots of feeling. After writing that post, I painted this painting, also with many tears.

“The Trees never ask for attention”, 20″ x 20″ $560