Painting the Tree ~ Stage One
I made a little video showing the first stage of my painting process.
Each painting begins with a free-hand drawing on canvas. With pencil to canvas I get to know my painting...
I made a little video showing the first stage of my painting process.
Each painting begins with a free-hand drawing on canvas. With pencil to canvas I get to know my painting... The lines and character of the painting are now beginning to take shape. Once the drawing is complete I do an underpainting in grey as a tonal study...
Live Your Childhood Dreams
It’s a rainy, blustery day and I’m cozy warm in my studio…
Looking out my window at the Vancouver harbour, I remember that only a few years ago, this was my dream...
It’s a rainy, blustery day and I’m cozy warm in my studio…
Looking out my window at the Vancouver harbour, I remember that only a few years ago, this was my dream.
In fact, it wasn’t until I moved into this studio that I realised... I actually visualised this very space.
Well, the studio wasn’t built yet, but I did imagine it… I imagined the size, the location... And with windows facing the waterfront…
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
Being an artist was really the only childhood dream I had.
And now, here I am... Living my dream.
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
And, once again, here I am... Day-dreaming out my window… Thinking… Imagining….
(I always was a dreamer).
So I thought... It's time to start another dream...
So...... Beginning November 21st, I'll be launching the 21 Day Dream Journey.
This (FREE) 21 Day Dream Journey is a gentle, peaceful, yet powerful way to connect to your dreams and change your life.
When it's time to birth a new dream, idea or goal in life, you can use the Dream Journey Guide to become clear on your vision and take the steps needed to bring your dreams to life.
You can register now... (You'll also get your free PDF ~ 7 Steps from Ethereal to Real, part one of the Little Book of Big Dreams, so you can start creating your dreams today!).
12 Ways Creativity Is Good For You
Art Classes Start In September!
Fall is just around the corner and I'm opening up my studio for new classes, a mentorship program and creativity workshops...
Art Classes Start in September!
Fall is just around the corner and I'm opening up my studio for new classes, a mentorship program and creativity workshops. You can read more on my studio page and feel free to contact me anytime if you have questions or would like more information.
Sign up for my MuseLetter ~ The Beauty of Art for a little inspiration, musings and program updates...
How Soul Art Helps Me as an Artist.
It is hard to see things about ourselves… they can remain deeply hidden. We might sense they are there… But how can we “see” them?
I am a very visual person, both in how I experience the external world, but also in my internal world; my imagination or “mind’s eye”. So for me to understand something I need to “see” it...
It is hard to see things about ourselves… they can remain deeply hidden. We might sense they are there… But how can we “see” them?
I am a very visual person, both in how I experience the external world, but also in my internal world; my imagination or “mind’s eye”. So for me to understand something I need to “see” it.
Soul Art helps me connect with who I am. It has helped me to truly understand and connect with my essence. This has been the first step; to become clear on who I am and to nurture that truth. My creativity comes from my essence… So to be clear on what I want to create as an artist, I must know myself.
I think of my essence as the little seed inside me that contains the whole fruit, the whole tree, and all of nature. Once I am connected to this core of my Being, my essence, then I can express my truth and become what I am meant to Be.
Soul Art reveals what is inside of me, to a place where I can see and experience it… My essence into art...
Begin with the end.
Life is a series of beginnings and endings.
(And I do so love new beginnings!)
To have a beginning, I first must have an ending...
I need to finish one chapter before I start the next.
As I add the final touches to my trees, I’m already thinking about my next painting.
I have the idea, the vision... the canvas...
But...
‘The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.’ ~ Robert Henri
And so, I remind myself...
It’s all in the being.
Be where I am. En-Joy where I am.
And it will be done...
Preparing the Canvas
The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. ~ Emily Dickinson
I love creating. I love the dreaming, the imagining, the doing... I love each step in the magical process of creating...