A Gift

 

little fairy offers a gift 

an energy sphere 

to his friend

gifts of magic are common in their realm 

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Beings of Light

 they met in a magical realm

two beings of light

radiating for all life

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Seems I have been working on this piece for months

a few minutes here, a half hour there, it is time to call it

complete.

Which means I can start on a new one ;-)

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I hope your summer has been going well. 

That the season of abundant life is inspiring you

and uplifting you. 

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Flower Being

 

I love how there is no plan for this art.

just lots of play and then sensing....

Sensing who wants to show up on the paper.

Feels like beings from other realms, who want

to live in our realm in the form of art.

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Shall We Dance

 

Shall we dance

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I am taking a class from Páivi of Peony and Parakeet

I love her art and she is a wonderful teacher. 

She has some videos on YouTube if you want to experience her teaching before considering a class. 

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I woke to our second snowfall today, around 2"

Then it rained all day and still coming down into the night. 

My little birds were all wet:

And my fingers got SO cold. 

Tis glove season. 

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Forest Bathing

 

Portraying a feeling of forest bathing

layers and layers like veils inspire the experience of feeling the endless realms available to us

even within us

for sale here

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Then they Appeared

 

When I do these paintings, I have no idea who will show up on the paper. Layers of color and design and waiting to see who lives in the shapes then bringing them to life. A bit like looking at clouds and seeing characters. 

 

I am temped to add a caption.... 

 

I would rather hear what you see going on between these two? 

 

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Summer Whimsy

 

• I had no idea this piece would be an abstract.
• The fun of the colors and details took over and this is what showed up on the paper. 
• Some of the fun is experiencing the part of me come to life that vanished when someone told me:
• Trees aren't pink
• mountains are not that pointy
• this is how to draw a flower

In those moments of someone thinking they knew what I was suppose to do with my art,  my innocence and freedom vanished. I am loving getting it back. It has a feeling of vitality and endless possibilities. 

( I am not sure how I got those dots to the left of my words... so i am not sure how to remove them)

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Summer Solstice

 

As we enter summer
Earth is lush green, overflowing with leaves, even some mushrooms
Sky a mix of soft blue, white clouds and gray clouds ready to sprinkle rain down upon us.
Lovely solstice to you whether it be summer or winter.

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A Constant

 

it is always here

light

our light

the light

open

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having fun creating fantasy landscapes

or perhaps this is a spiritscape.

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Forest Lad

 

Immersed in the forest

he knelt to visit with the boletes

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I was so immersed in this painting that I forgot I was doing a lesson

and

didn't follow the lesson. 

Makes me smile, as I love getting immersed in basically anything!

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Receiving Light ~

 

receiving light

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This painting took me days to feel that it was complete. 

Layers and layers......

pausing to consider. 

Turning a light on it when I passed the art table,

what does it need, I pondered. 

Today it told me what it needed 

and then it felt complete. 

Ah

That happens with most my art, but this one took longer to find what it wanted. 

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Let's Paint an Angel

These paintings were from a lesson named lets paint and angel.

They began as flower petals and then we turn them into an angel.

This last one was the first one I did. The paper would not support re-wetting previous paint to meld it with new layers. So I painted the two above on different papers, which was much more successful in that regard.

 I find it interesting to do one lesson a few times to see how each one is different. How new inspiration rises. How new ideas unfold. 

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If you are curious about this teacher, she has many classes:

Päivi Eerola

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Abstract Forest

 

The assignment from the course I am taking:

Magical Forest

was to paint an abstract forest

the one above does not look that abstract to me

so I made a second one.

Are either of them abstract?

This is called negative painting. 

you outline the subject (tree) with paint, instead of painting the tree itself. 

One of many things I am experiencing in this course is finding the artist in me

that existed before this world told me:

mountains aren't that pointy

trees aren't that color

this is how you draw a flower

etc.

It is so fun to take pencil or brush to paper and make marks and eventually finding things from life in it. 

I get absorbed in the movement of the brush, the marks the pencil makes

just for that experience. 

I love it. 

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I hope this finds you enjoying your day. 

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Flower Fairy

 

Everywhere she went

rays of light danced and flickered

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a painting from the course I am taking with Pävai Eerola

I am enjoying her lessons and the multitude of layers that go into them. 

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Rays of light

 

through veils of light

caring beings appear

blessing our realm

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Wishing you blessings that inspire your smile. 

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Looking for a Fairy but found an Angel

 

This is from the course Magical Forest where we are guided to create a series.

I am working on 4 paintings. In this one I was looking for a fairy, but I found an angel.

I am not confident that my rays of light portray rays of light, but at lest they feel like rays of energy, maybe close enough.

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Flowers and Fairies

 

I am taking a course by Paivi Eerola

I enjoy looking at her art, sometimes feeling my heart respond to her paintings.

I like her teaching style, so many wonderful techniques and tips and yet it is quite intuitional, which I enjoy!

The painting above had many layers.....

then the next lesson had us finding fairies in our painting:

I found three fairies, but sense are more!

I am looking forward to more of her lessons!

It really looks like a fabulous course.

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Landscape Art

 

I ended and began the year with little landscape art.

They were both done in art journals.

Amazing how long the pencil one above took. 

I had not played with pencils for a long time and found it relaxing and fun to choose colors.

This was painted in a Hahnemuhle 100% cotton watercolor journal. 

I enjoyed working on the paper. These journals are new to the market. 

The best part of each of these landscapes, besides the act of making them, is that I would enjoy wandering into both of them to explore and enjoy.

On New years day I was out feeding the birds. 

They land on a tree near me, chirp when they want nuts, I hold out my hand for them to land

and take a nut/seed away. 

There was another high pitched sound, I looked down to see this little ermine completely curious about me. 

It ran from hole to hole popping its head out to look at me. 

What an exciting experience. 

Happy 2023 to each of you!

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Meditative

 

Do you ever need to do something meditative?

Something that brings you present, so that your mind goes nowhere else?

I love things that bring me present. 

Photography, cooking, art all support being present.

These layers of mountains were meditative. 

So thankful to know what medicine to choose, 

a walk in the forest, xc ski through the meadow, focusing on my breathing

and/or 

painting.

Wishing you calm and peace when your spirit needs it.

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She Dreamed

 

She dreamt of being in our world

even if it was as art on a wall

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Recently I saw the Kokanee Salmon Spawning,

swimming against the current:

and 

the water and light danced with the rocks

 ~

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