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I'm so lucky to have a fabulous teacher! She is so learned on the subject of painting with acrylics and oils. I swear she knows EVERYTHING!! I've have so many realizations in her class and am really enjoying the many challenges she offers.  Here is some stuff so far. This is where we started after creating a grey scale then a scale in umber. A monochrome painting. Then we set up for a Blue and Orange Painting   Here I'm formulating the idea.  It really doesn't look like much. This is not the final painting.  Haven't taken a photo of the final but the shadow is much better.   We also did scales for Blue and Orange. Then we did a full on Color Wheel.   Next we moved on to Red and Green or Yellow and Violet.  I was still working on my scales for Yellow and Violet so this was all that was left in the props box.  So I got Yellow and Violet. Then the fu...

Taking another art class.  This time Acrylics.  It's a great class with lots of other students who are a year or more ahead of me.  A mixed group of great artists.  I know its not much right now but I have lots more work to do.  Loving the class!

I seem to be very busy lately...just life! Wanted to get these posted before the end of October. As you can see I've been a bit sporadic; but on my behalf it is a full moon and I was left unsupervised.

Got side tracked!  You know.....LIFE.  It always seems to get the way of all my project.  Anyway, here they are, 10 more for the month of July.  You will see that some days were just ho hum but other days I was truly inspired.  Still doing the shadow work. This is the cover of my new altered Gluebook.  I was going to add "Phases" as the title but like just the visual showing the phases of the eclipse, I think it says it all. Staying in the past keeps you little and narrow.  I'm done with that, I want to be free to experience all that is out there that piques my interest. This is the inside cover.  A recording of my artistic journey with out thought or plan. I give myself five minutes, 2 or 3 images, sometimes more and a glue stick. That would be MY evolution. I feel like a paleoecologist at a personal dig, excavating lost parts of my life.  Ready for a big change! New Moon in Cancer, lots going on. Love ...

Each of these "gluebook" pages is created in less than 5 minutes without any thought about outcome.  After the images are glued down and it feels finished I look for a message.  These are my findings.  Don't go another day, week, month or year without finding and harnessing your passion.  Whatever it is, hold on to that while letting go of things, people and behaviors that do not behoove you.  To be brain healthy, keep learning and firing those synopses which I see as the precious jewels of our brains. Out of the primordial soup of our thoughts come the tadpoles of ideas that will grow into our brilliance.  Sacred. This page is for my Mother born 103 years ago on this day, July 3. She was an avid knitter and created so many wonderful sweaters, dresses, suits, coats and a multitude of gifts and household items.  She was 83 when she passed and had been creating fabric arts since the age of 8.  Step onto the Path and become awaken...

All in all I feel this has been a very good art and emotional month for me. I did miss two days (the 13th and 30th) of gluebook pages but feel just fine with that. I also traveled to Salem, Oregon for six days at the end of the month but was able to keep to my practice.  So here are the final pages for June 2015.  I've added a bit more description for those curious souls who asked. Thresholds June 24, 2015 This is the threshold to the awakening I am venturing.  It is ancient and earthy and I need to trust the deepest parts of me to continue my quest.  This is the clay and mortar of our souls that goes deep, holding us altogether. What Resonates? June 25, 2015 Who looks outside, Dreams Who looks inside, Awakens.  In  looking for my true nature, I'm cracking open and shattering the old seeds and reflections I've been holding on to. Looking to find the music in me. I'm ready to finally live my intended life. Underground Shadow Temples J...

I am feeling so grateful that I can dig deeper and deeper into my subconscious. Each time I sit down to create a page in this small book I have no idea what will appear.  I am mindfully getting out of the way, letting my Inner Being take the controls to inspire and create whatever needs to be birthed.  June 17, 2015 Welcome Moonbeams! I was calling the Shadow Children I have called back home on the Dark of the Moon, Demons, Gremlins and other such demeaning names. I am so sorry for that! I have come to know them as my Moonbeams! I have welcomed them home with a open heart and arms to live out their lives at home in comfort.  June18, 2015 Heart Seed. "Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a beautiful flower." Shigenori Kameoka.  My Moonbeams are blooming everyday.  My hero, Mahatma Gandhi lived in his truth as much as any human could, a great mentor!  June 19, 2015 Height of Reflection....