color

I am dying to get into some more pink colors. My favorite painting I ever did is three french hens. . First it is mostly pink. second it is french and has high heels. third it has a window and it looks out onto a small village in France. Yes this is my favorite painting. It also has roses.  /all my favorite things. 

Creative thought for today is pink. color says something about you, no it says everything about you. 

I am pink on my insides. I used to be different. 

Is it because I had a grandbaby or is it because I am happy. Or is it something else. But right now I am pink. 

Find your color and have lots of it. I know this will sound weird but I think you are drawn to a color for a deeper reason than you just like it. Color has mood altering capabilities. It is deeper than just pleasure. 

another way to get out of the blahhs

Painting can become a bore if you do the same thing over and over. Success breeds contempt. One way to get out of a bad space is to do just what you want to do. Paint what you feel like with no thought to selling it to anyone. Just paint exactly what you want.

If there was nobody but you that was going to see it. 

I call these diary paintings. just for you alone. I will post my diary painting tomorrow. 

creative thought for the day

why does anybody read blogs about what other people are thinking?? I read them to find new ideas for creative group. I am running a creative group and am writing a book about it and am making it up as I go. The funny thing is everyone else that does creativity classes does the same thing. Why do another one. Well I have found that each person has something to offer and so pulling all the ideas together with come up with a brand new form of being creative. 

I am going to try and write a note a day about this topic. Todays note is one about getting rid of creative blocks. 

One way I have discovered is go to the library and get books that I never never would ever pick out. LIke Math books and science books and books about cars. All horrible subjects for me but I got them nonetheless. I spend one hour reading them and trying to find something I can use for my class. Talk about hard. It feels like crawling through nails.  But what it does is shock my mind into action. Then when I go back and try and do something I am good at it is like running. 

another blog about paintings on other blogs

There is an amazing blog that I follow and it is Paris breakfast. It is more than amazing. 

like that artist I also am in Love with All things French and because of that all my work has that french feel. What is a french feel in words. Old worn new adventurous bold simple sexy girly shiny matte. warm color like the sun and clay soil.

Once when I was in France out group got stuck in the vineyard fields in a rain storm and we had to push the van out of the mud. You never saw mud like this before. It stuck to our shoes and made them be like 2 foot platform shoes in one minute. That is the sold that french wine is grown in. clay clay clay. 

I am going to France in August for 13 days. I long for the experience. Going to France is like getting drunk. Your senses are totally altered and you feel like being in love with everybody. 

The lavender festival is like that too but it is not a whole country. This will be my first time in Paris too. 

I am dying to try my first madeline. 

New Show

My new show is all about Leopard. The good news is that Jet Coop is opening a new retail outlet and I will be selling cards and small paintings out of it. So if you cant afford a big painting then you can at least get a frameable card or a small new painting. As soon as I figure out how to put pics on this site I will. I have some of the studio space and also the gallery.This is a slow market so lots of artists have reduced prices on the work. 

February 11th a very beautiful day. 

The importance of your space

In the creativity group we are going to examine the importance of you space for being able to create. 

My husband built me a 10 by 20 foot studio with nice high ceilings. It had lots of windows and a good cement floor with a drain for painting( I use huge amounts of water when I paint and sometimes need to actually hose paintings off so a drain was what I needed. 

With this custom studio all done I tried to paint there. What I found out was(to my dismay) that I could not think in that space. I felt as though I was cramped and could not breathe much less paint. 

It turned out  the space was too narrow and the ceilings not high enough and there were too many windows. Too much light. The floor bugged me too as it sloped for the drain. 

Now I rent a space that is perfect. The ceiling height is 20 feet and I have a nice big wall. I can work there for 10 hours without stopping and feel fine.  It has the added plus of other people who come in and visit which I find energizing. 

I feel bad about the other studio we paid so much money for but what learned is that you have to have elbow room to work with your mind. 

Sunday the first

This is the first day of the week and the first day of the month and the end of painting my show. Another year to stock against the last ones. 

I have new resolve to make mind and body  go somewhere new. Sunday they day to get refreshed for new spiritual goals.