Abstract Boot Camp

Hello blog friends and happy Monday.  I post today...on the road...on my phone.  I headed out this morning, to my parents for a week, but spent an incredible weekend being 100% distracted with paint.

I attended a workshop this weekend at Jerrys, and what an amzing time it was.  The only things that I knew I wanted from the weekend workshop was to be completely distracted from daily life, and to use up some paint....and thats exactly what happened!

I just played around...wanting to use some of the paint that sits on my shelf.

It dawned on my that it has been quite some time since I have actually painted something...not like a demo or teaching a class, but painted for me...for the pure pleasure of painting.

I pulled out my biggest brushes, inks, and anything else that I could get my hands on...and simply lost myself.

And it was GREAT!

Until next time,

Working through the Ugly...

Happy Monday, Blog Friends....
Have you ever started a painting or journal page, and find - quickly - that it is not turning out the way you intended?  Oh, how I have stumbled on this quite a bit lately.....so...I add more, smear, smoosh, highlight, ink, splatter...and everything just gets uglier, and uglier...thats where I am now with this....so, what do you do when this happens??

I ususally end up quitting....tucking the canvas away, or flipping the page and starting on with something else....sometimes, just out of pure frustration, I walk away - and then mistake the whole feeling for being in a slump,,,when I really just don't know what to do with it...

And...then there are the tims, where I just keep going - right on through that ugly phase that my work takes on...and, I end up with something that I never thought I had in me..

I end up creating something that I actually truly like.....

Until next time,





An Exhausting Week!

Happy Friday Blog Friends!

What an incredible week I have had...and, as all good things must come to an end, so must my workshop with Bob Rankin.

This has been such an amazing experience!  Both exhilirating and exhausting at the same time.  I can not remember when I have painted for 7+ hours a day for so many days straight--but with tons of coffee, I am surviving.

My head is seriously about to explode with so many ideas!!!

And...I sold my very first painting!!!!  Talk about a cloud 9 feeling---especially when I was feeling quite a bit "less than"!

I finished my day yesterday with these

Can't wait to get back today to have a look at them with fresh eyes!  From the girl that was quite afraid to paint on canvas, I bought a 30x40... Gonna go big today!!!  Wish me luck!

Until next time,