Some Updates

I decided to join in to the calendar project at The Kathryn Wheel.  In my art journal, I made a calendar for October, using some of The Crafters' Workshop stencils.  It is so fun to have a place for little bits and pieces of my old watercolors!  If you go to Kathryn's link, you can see all of the amazing calendars that others have made.  I look forward to memorializing a little of what I do each day here. 

Yesterday, in addition Artists in Blogland launching Fall Fearless and Fly, Scrapping the Music posted a new challenge for October.  It's around an amazing song by Crystal Bowersox.  It's so catchy, and the lyrics are so great. 

I had fun creating my design for the challenge.  It's about my daughter Samy, who sings all the time!  I can't resist sharing a clip of her singing in a talent show from our town.

I hope you'll go over to Scrapping the Music and check out the great designs from the rest of the design team, and maybe create one yourself!

A little update on Bloom True, the ecourse I'm taking with Flora Bowley.  This week's theme is "being brave."  Here is how one of my paintings has transformed...

and another:

This process is so fascinating -- layering and layering, letting the painting evolve in an organic way.  It's scary - but I'm loving it.  

What's scaring you these days?  What are you being brave about?

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Fall Fearless and Fly!

Have you been over to Artists in Blogland to check out the challenge "Fall Fearless and Fly?"  Carolyn Dube and I are hosting it starting October 1.  Every other week, there will be artistic prompts designed to get you thinking about setting intentions and shedding emotional baggage to step into 2013 as your bravest, most fearless self!  Have you ever done a juice cleanse?  Think of this as an art cleanse!  Any medium goes, and we have great prizes and giveaways.  Each week, there will be a guest artist participating.  The wonderful Ronda Palazzari, Jane Davies, Maria McGuire, Marcia Beckett and Dina Wakely will be playing along with us.  We hope you'll play along too.  So go to Artists in Blogland and grab a button for your blog.  On October 1, get ready to "Fall Fearless and Fly!"

We went to my cousin's daughter's wedding on Saturday night.  It was just beautiful -- black tie and in the most gorgeous setting called the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange.   I hadn't been to a wedding in several years.  It was nice to sit next to my husband and mentally renew my vows to him as I watched this young couple officially start their lives together.  Here's the art journal page I created on Sunday (catching up with my 29 faces!):

The colors of the wedding were black, white, taupe and teal, which I tried to capture.  Of course I was very influenced by Chagall and this painting in particular:  

Yesterday I started Flora Bowley's Bloom True E-course.  Like me, Flora is a yogini and views painting as a very spiritual process.  The community of women doing this course is so warm and wonderful, which is what I've found so far in all the classes I've been taking.  Here's my first step at letting paint do its thing -- not trying to control it in any way.  This will be the bottom of many layers to come, but I kind of like it.  I love these warm colors and how three pink balls are hovering.  I'm excited to see what becomes of this canvas with tomorrow's exercise!

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