"Paintings Allow You to...."

Paintings Allow You To......


travel without leaving home:)

see the creation of beauty found in the artist's heart

to hope

to be free

to love with abandon….

to be thankful for the memories!

to not realize time and be swept up in a dream...


TO BE YOURSELF AND ENJOY WHAT YOU DO....


Let go and be....

to be taken to a place where your heart feels content

To express, to explore and discover who I really am, what I'm really feeling, and what

my heart is truly whispering to me.

To connect with Spirit and Nature - both within me and outside of me.

 Challenge myself to create/ re-create beauty.

To follow my bliss (when I allow myself to let go and simply be, feel, truly see and then manifest it).

feel like I'm playing when I'm really working.

share with the Creator of all that's good and beautiful.

allows me the opportunity to see things deeply, differently. To notice the smallest details that most people miss. 

To share the artist's spirit....

Paintings allow me to exhale...♥.

.....to focus on the beautiful

.....to go beyond the surface of things

.....to fall in love with the unlovable

.....find yourself in other things

.....to connect with God

..to be reminded that we are all creative beings

allow me to be happy

Challenge myself to create/ re-create beauty.

to forget about problems

Travel to a different time!

...dream quietly


take the mind on a vacation


To blissfully get lost in time.

To be in awe of the creative process


 see the lights sparkling against the shadows... and then I can focus on life's joys more fully!


..connect to hearts.


escape to a higher dimension


impress forever a memory, a moment, of time and place.


...be thankful


make a world out of a moment

Painting shows me my steps in color and form which clearly marks the path towards reaching my goal.  This elicits such joy and sometimes frustration within me. It is teaching me to recognize and enjoy my journeys outside of painting because the process is the same.  If you keep working towards the goal you will reach it..

bring our thoughts to color


....finish a conversation

to be taken to a place where your heart feels content

be totally happy living in the moment. (I guess that is the zen of painting!)


Dance Naked! (in color like nobody's watchin)


Experience a little more joy


Talk to your soul

to find myself...over and over again

To be transported in mind and spirit.

free-fall into bliss.

Show on the outside how I'm feeling on the inside.

Escape!

To make a passing thought  permanent.

to nurture my passion.

Painting allows me to bring to the viewer a souvenir from my secret place....a place where no boundaries exist, a place where my heart can sing and my soul can dance...a place where my mind's eye can direct it's own path....

To know the utter joy of creating what your mind's eye sees

Painting allows me to stop the world for just a little while and catch my breath! It is a small retreat, an escape, a refueling that gives energy to everyday life.

--what do paintings allow you to do/be/have.....??

Please add your voice to the above quotes gathered from friends...it will happily be added to this post:))(Updated May 15 @ 11:30 AM)

P.S. If you're in a hurry or simply don't know how to add your comments to this post, just  click here to email me your words and I will be sure to include them.

P.S.S.  Always do what makes you feel good:))

P.S.S.  Live your life fearlessly:))

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"Priceless Books and Friends"

Priceless

I am so grateful for the people in my life.  When I think about them, it brings home again what the real beauty and meaning in everything we do is about.  
It is not about who gets the most marbles in their bag.  


(Note: I have been losing mine for years so I have never been very good at that game:))

True people enrich our lives in ways that neither we or they even begin to know.  That feeling of love and acceptance is as necessary to thriving in life as good food, sunshine and air.  

For every true person one has in their life, it is like having a check with a blank space to be filled in for abundance.  

Those true connections are what is behind, underneath, between and above all the other "stuff" we fill our lives with in our headlong rush to success. 

  Those feelings of making it and proving ourselves are already there in the eyes of true friends. 

  It's like they see into us and know what we don't yet realize-- 

 that we are 

priceless:)))


Happy Note:  I received, on the same day, two beautiful books from two true friends who don't know each other---but probably should:))
Thank you Lynda and Faye
You are rich additions to my life:))


The books above are The French Cat and One Thousand Gifts.  In true fashion, I am trying to read both at once....I get a little crazy when it comes to books:))
I figured you might want to join me, so I added them to the store---just click here:))) 


P.S.  I am in Atlanta finishing up a wonderful workshop--will post details in my next post.  It has been a very FULL week:)))  with lots of painting, meeting fantastic artists, cooking and eating:))) -- with my wonderful co-host and artist friend, Leslie Saeta!

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"Love You to the Moon and Back"

"Love You to the Moon and Back"

8 x 8in oil on museum quality panel

$350

Wet sand

Frosted sea glass

Three day old sandwich and a glass of wine

Laughter with new friends

All by the light of the moon

Dogs kickin' up their heels

Crisp breeze blowin'

Hearts made warm

All by the light of the moon

So many treasures in this life we are given.

Shared laughter,

Gifts from the heart,

Memories made

All by the light of the moon.

A special thanks to Cathy, Laurie, and Pat for laughter, sea glass and yes,  three day old sandwiches that tasted amazing in the company of friends:)))

P.S.  This excursion was a surprise from the girls pictured above after the completion of my Westford, Mass. Workshop. 

  For those of you, who like me, may never even have heard of sea glass until this very moment---it is  glass that is  found on beaches that has been tumbled and smoothed by the waves, water and sand, creating smooth, frosted shards of glass in amazing delicate hues of color. 

My newly found sea glass sets in my window to catch the first rays of sunlight in the morning. 

It reminds me of

 ocean,

 good friends,

 and the beauty in things that have been worn smooth by the passage of time

(kind a like me 'n' you:))

Love you to the Moon and Back!

P.S.S.  A special piece of sea glass discovered by me will be sent with this painting.  It's only right to share the love....and the sea glass:)))

Escape to the beach in January with me--Marco Island, FL 3 Day Petite Pleasures Workshop.  To learn more, click here!

Here's a blog on sea glass that I thought you might like to have a peek at:))  Click here. Pin It

"Colorful Friends" SOLD

"Colorful Friends"

12 x 12in oil on museum quality panel

$550.

You never know where a single idea will lead too.  On the heels of my return from the "grand tour" a couple of weeks ago, I did something I have never done before.  I had read about it and had actually written about it in my book, The Artist's Toolbox, sharing the idea that had come from artist friend down south, Kelley Sanford, but that was as far as I had gotten.  After receiving my book, friend Terri Thompson, whom I met last year when she took one of my workshops, emailed me and said--"I would love to do this!  Are you game??"

That was back in August I think.   Terri, being the organized gal that she is, pinned me down to a date and we started laying our plans  for......

"Girls Night Out in Paris!!"

and billed it as an evening with the artist---  Girls only..:))!

Terri's home provided a beautiful setting to showcase some of my newest pieces.   We hung larger works and the smaller ones were scattered around--on the dining room sideboards, around the centerpiece, end tables, coffee tables, just wherever the girls would be gathering to munch, visit and

watch me demo!  We sat a specific time for the demo so guests could plan their time accordingly. 

Well, it turned out to be such a fun, relaxed event! We ate (Terri had an amazing spread out!), laughed, shared ideas.....

and not all of the paintings came home with me:)

Always the sign of me having a great time....I forget to take pictures 'til it's over!  So the one photo below is of the gal's that were lingering while I was packing up and were nice enough to "pose" for me..Terri is the beautiful blonde:) (Thanks Girls!)

                                         

Actually, one of them forgot to take the left over lemon cupcakes that Terri was giving away...of which I became the happy recipient and am both embarrassed and proud to say lasted...

ahem...not very long at my house.

So this is a good story with a happy ending (and a painting to show for it, Colorful Friends!).  I wanted to share it because I think it's a fun way to spend an evening, meet new people, and let them enjoy the creative process (I did try to get some of the audience to paint on my painting, just to try it out, but had no takers....CHICKEN!!:)  Art should be enjoyed and accessible by all, just  like good music. 

Galleries aren't for everybody (see note below)

 But everyone loves a "Girls Night Out"! 

 Thanks Terri for being so open to new ideas--I had a great time!

Note:  To my fellow artists who may be interested in experimenting with this idea, here's a link to an article by Keith Bond that I found helpful in planning.  And a quote on people and galleries: Kesha Bruce writes an interesting blog post and mentions an article on Marc Jacobs, the world famous/fabulous fashion designer, that even he at one point, was too intimidated to go shopping for art. Although he is talking about up-market city galleries, the same intimidation is felt by more ordinary people in more humble galleries.

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