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I have told you before that I am participating in the Art House Co-op Canvas Project with the goal to create a visual encyclopedia.
I was sent me 3 little canvases and my randomly chosen words are:
A friend of mine recently went to Tanzania.
She knows I have a thing for seedpods.
So when she saw the first Flamboyant Tree (in the picture on the right) on her trip, she immediately bent down to collect its seedpods (or maybe she climbed the tree, I don't know). All I know is, here she was, thousands of miles from home in a foreign land and the first thing she does is think of me...sniffle...
She lugged them all the way back to the US and then sent them to me via post all across the ocean.
Oh and what a delightful surprise that package was...
So below is the painting called "The First Flamboyant" which is now on its way back over the ocean for a return surprise.
Those pods have seen the world!
I am participating in the Art House Co-op Canvas Project with the goal to create a visual encyclopedia and have received my three little canvases.
The last few days I have been very creative painting. To the point that there are paint stains on my nice white keyboard :-)
In line with a painting I did a while ago, below is the result of recent creative outpour.
And here is a painting done by my sons today.
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While I'm sitting in the sun on a camping in the Provence, I wanted to share with you a new painting I recently finished.
As you may be able to tell, I am fascinated by aboriginal dot paintings.
It takes forever to fill a large canvas with dot, believe me, but the result is stunning.
I am all in the BE-DO-HAVE model Christine Kane is suggesting in her course.
I AM an artist, creative, happy, positive, complaint-free person first. I behave like one. And the rest just follows. And it does.
The reason most resolutions don’t work is that they address only one level of your life. The DO level. It’s the DO-HAVE-BE model. “I will DO this thing.” (i.e., Lose weight) “So I can HAVE this other thing” (Self-Esteem) and I can BE this thing. (Confident.)
The average New Year’s Resolution doesn’t address the core of the issue – the “BE” level.
The best order for creating positive changes in your life is the BE-DO-HAVE model. This means you start from the BE level. When you begin changing on the BE level of your life, then the DO level and the HAVE level follow more easily.
When you start only on the DO level, then all the blocks on the BE level will often become the obstacles you can’t overcome.
Another painting with seed pods I just finished . These are from our local woods and last weekend's walk.
I seem to have this thing for seed pods lately.
Which makes me think about something Christine Kane recently said on a tele-seminar.
"When we plant a seed, the first thing that comes up is not the sprout, it's the Dirt."I have set the intention of painting more. That intention is my seed. So bear with me while I share my dirt with you :-) I hope it will sprout eventually. Read more...
Below is a painting I finished yesterday. Unfortunately the picture does not render the 3D effect of this painting.
The brown poles in the middle are seed pods brought home from a trip to Guadeloupe.
I have written about Aboriginal Dreamings Art before. A long time ago I had started copying a painting I felt inspired by but I never got any further than just the background and some lines. I have recently picked it up, read a bit in the book about techniques (such as dot-painting), picked up a stick and just started dotting.
When I paint or try to be otherwise creative, I try to get the right, creative side of my brain going (see drawing with the right side of the brain website and other information). It is, however, not always easy to switch off the verbal, analytical left brain.
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