Looking For Inspiring Quotes

I've been doing Flora Bowley's Bloom Bootcamp.  Its a free 30 day program.  You can find it here. Today's prompt was about studios and spiffing up your studio if you have one.  To let the sacred into your workspace no matter how big or small.  So I cleaned up a little and decided to print out some inspiring quotes to hang in my room, So off to Pinterest I went.  Here are just a few of those I found. You can access my Pinterest Board here for more quotes.

Link Love

I decided that I would jump on the Link Love bandwagon organized by Tammy over at Daisy Yellow.  The idea is to share blog posts that inspire and to introduce new people you have found to get them some traffic. We all love sharing what we have found. I love looking at new things, as I am sure you do.













Make your own file folders with Aimee at Artsville . These are so cute, I might make some just for fun.
Lost Coast Post Michelle has a delightful blog with all these cute monsters, plus tutorials and more.  She never fails to delight.

Dances With Wool. Lene is a knitter and creates beautiful work.  Even if you don't knit her blog is a visual feast. She is in Finland and truly appreciates the beauty of her surorunding.

Fueled by Clouds and Coffee Tina's delightful blog showcases her watercolor sketches. I like her style and you may too.

Its About Time  Barbara does this wonderful blog and a few others too.  The focus is on art collections and history.  Make sure to check out all the different collections.  Its a great resource for artists and history buffs too.

You can see what other artists have linked by going to Daisy Yellow

Inspiration is Everywhere

I am finding inspiration everywhere this week. In new books, nature and just letting go. I am finding a  burst of creativity coming out of me and the feeling is awesome.  Early this week Connie Hozvicka gave the lesson on Life Book.  She had us dancing with our paintbrushes.

So I started a few backgrounds, they are all works in progress. I started with the dancing paintbrush and kept adding layers. Of course I couldn't contain myself to just one page.

I am still playing with this one. I have been using some of the techniques in this book. I love painting with my fingers.

It really goes along with what I have learned in BIG and the whole idea of Fearless Painting. Its what I am really resonating with lately. You just follow your intuition and paint what you are called to. Just let go, its only a painting after all.

Then last night my friend Jolene came over for an Art evening. Would you believe we painted till midnight.

This is what she worker on. Fine delicate and beautiful work.

This idea started earlier in the day.  I was cleaning my studio for Jolene's visit and saw the masking tape I use to put big pieces of paper on my painting wall.  I usually throw it away but got a brilliant insight.  I will just put it in my art journal. So this is how it looked at the start.

This is after I added all the paint. I just love it now. Can you see the face hidden in there? I think I will be saving all that tape from now on.

There are lots of layers here. I ended up working in three different journals. Its hard waiting for things to dry so I just moved to the next journal.  That worked really great.

There is just one layer and then I added the chevrons from one Jolene's stencils. I imagine when I am done it will look nothing like this.  I really like Flora's idea of using cool colors, letting them dry and then adding warm colors and on and on.

I saw a figure in the background and will expand on this some more. I like to add some warm colors now.  Maroon reds are calling to me here. I ended up painting with brushes, chopsticks, fingers rags, sponges and other pointy tools.

There are a few pieces of tape underneath, more on the circle theme.

This one is only 2 layers so far. I love how it glows in that one side.

The one thing I took away from last night is how important it is to have art friends.  Someone you can get together with and play.  Besides all the painting we shared book ideas, boards on Pinterest we loved, ideas we had seen on the net and more.  Thanks Jolene for such a fabulous time.

This got me to thinking about having a google+ hangout with virtual art friends.  I have done this with writers but not artists.  We could all be in own studios sharing as we work.  I may have to try it with one friend and see how it works.  I'll keep you posted.

Tell me what is inspiring you this week?

An Awesome Video

This is a TED talk you may know of or not, I heard about it from Jamie Ridler and it really is wonderful so I thought I would share it with you today. Its long but well worth watching.

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there.

Videos to Inspire Your Bucket List

Go here for  a little inspiration. I can't help but be uplifted by Tim McGraw's song.  I always loved The Last Holiday and now I think I need to rent One Week and there is so much more.

http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2011/04/06/videos-inspiration-bucket-list/

This is the most fabulous story

I found this on Beth Revis's blog.  She is a YA author that wrote Across the Universe which is fantastic by the way.  I don't know if you read Young Adult novels but for me lately that is where all the good books seem to be.  Anyways I loved this video, it is really all about looking for those possibilities in life and following them. Then there is the power of the Internet to connect people.  It sort of like being in the movie Amelie too. Just amazing.