Friday, April 28, 2006

BAD! Kitty This is the best Astrology Site I have ever found!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio...my horoscope for today...this is the best horoscope site I have EVER seen, check it out for yourself, just hit the header it's a link to find your horoscope too!
Libra Horoscope for week of April 27, 2006
Will the truth set you free? Maybe, but first it will set you on fire, metaphorically speaking. Once you have been completely consumed by the flames and been reborn out of the ashes like the mythical phoenix, then you might be able to figure out how to use the truth to set yourself free--and to set others free as well. As long as you're armed with the knowledge in this horoscope, Libra, the process won't hurt as much as you might imagine. In fact, the predominant sensation may be exultation. Here's some homework to get you started: Write your three top fears on a piece of paper and burn it.
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The primary meaning of the word "healing" is "to cure what's diseased or broken." Medical practitioners focus on sick people. Psychotherapists wrestle with their clients' traumas and neuroses. Philanthropists donate their money and social workers contribute their time to helping the underprivileged. I am in awe of them all. The level of one's spiritual enlightenment, I believe, is more accurately measured by helping people in need than by meditation skills, shamanic shapeshifting, supernatural powers, or religious knowledge. But I also believe in a second kind of healing that is largely unrecognized: to supercharge what is already healthy; to lift up what's merely sufficient to a sublime state. Using this definition, describe two acts of healing: one you would enjoy performing on yourself and another you'd like to provide for someone you love. * The preceding oracle comes from my book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. It's available at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog ~Quote for the day

Quote for the Day
***
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.

Alfred Montapert
***
I am programmed for living.
A Machine of Love.
Adaptable, Flexible, courageous,
Able to Overcome,
Willing to Survive.
I am the Spirit,
I am the Soul Struggling,
I am a Peaceful Warrior,
I am wind in you hair,
sword in your hand,
the song of hope that never stops singing.
I am the thought that won't
go away...
I am that reminder
in the back of your mind... That
you are human
and wanting
something
More.
Raw & Burning.
Bold in my Truth,
New & Old.
BURNING.
Heather

Thursday, April 27, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog ~Quote for the day


BAD! Kitty Art Studio & Sybil Ann Tells All
Quote for the Day
***
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

Alfred Whitehead
***
Thinking.
Interacting.
Living.
Creating.
Work.
Touching my Faith.
Yours in the
Raw & Radiant
Moments of our shared reality.
Heather

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog


"Prayer Flags"
ols
30" X 50"
One of my old favorites, so I thought I'd share today.
Click picture to enlarge.
Have a great day!
Heather

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog

Quote for the day
***
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Boyd K. Packer
***
I have a very busy day and not much time to write to you today.
I have art that needs shipping, and art that needs finishing for shipping, only one client booked so far for much later in the day, so it seems most of my day will be dedicated to my artworks.
I have so many things on my mind this morning too, that working is a blessing.
I am Burning over here...The roof is on fire
and after a year of not showing and amassing a huge collection of my works...I am again after a couple of small showings...Almost sold out.
Argggh! It's great, I LOVE it...But it also requires the effort of keeping the ball rolling, and today I am determined to push my own inner don't wanna's to the back and push forward through my
fog and make things happen, complete what I have started, and just
Continue to
require the absolute best of myself
(whatever that is)
every single
freaking
day.
So...I am off to be great.
What are you pushing through today to attain that
higher state of being for yourself.
Yep somedays it's just work to get there...How do you do it?
I do it by keeping my promise to write everyday...Even when I have nothing to say.
I keep it by making sure that art people have asked for is as near perfect as I can make it (I never go for perfection in the work but in the presentation...Form is everything)
and do all the things that are required of me today with as much grace,
truth and
dignity as I can
produce.
Raw & Radiant
Yours in the interactive Moment,
Heather

Monday, April 24, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog ~Quote for the day

Quote for the day
***
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious
and also, as having magnitude,
complete in itself . . . With incidents arousing
pity and fear, wherewith to
accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
Aristotle
***
Tragedy, we wake up with our personal tragedy's everyday.
We battle ourselves to make it better, or we succumb to the pressure of those who are surrounding us.
My oldest left home way too soon.
The Mother Part of me, wants to go find him, drag his narrow ass home, feed him, love him, fix him.
The mature part of myself knows that he
wants this
tragedy.
He wants to be a victim.
He wants to control his world by being
a tragedy of a 16 year old boy.
His skills at emotional manipulation and control
are exceptional, really...You have to give the kid his kudos...
he's determined, hard headed, willful, and
a complete idiot right now.
I have to learn how to relax into this stress.
Relax into the knowing that this is a stage that he passing through,
that I have done a good job at raising him,
even if this is his way of breaking free of that
environmental conditioning.
I am living day to day with my grief, my sorrow,
my lonely for only him, my own needs to know I have not lost him forever.
I can only control myself, my actions not reactions to
circumstances that I have no participation or control
over.
I am Free of my own inner judgment about this.
I want lots of things for him,
I want love that is whole and healthy for me.
I want him whole.
I miss him.
I love him.
I want him back in my life, the hole in my chest is huge with his being Gone..
Until that reality can manifest, I must continue on.
I Must continue.
I can't do anything else, I have no choice but to continue to work,
be accountable,
be impassioned,
be true to me,
and continue to love healthy and strong.
Living with reality today, and translating that into constructive
actions that bring my circle of love
round again.
Yours in the moment today,
and doing something with it.
What are you working on this Monday Morning?
Heather

Saturday, April 22, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog

Quote for the weekend
***
It is unethical not to know.
It is unethical not to think.
It is unethical not to love.
It is unethical not to live an impassioned life.
It is unethical not to attain greatness.
It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy
and the conspiracy of mediocrity.
It is unethical not to self-bestow genius.
It is unethical not to be the first monkey.
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
***
The First Monkey...Human evolution...
My kids came home from their schools "Earth Day"
celebration at school yesterday. Loaded down with happy paper
hats, colored with non-toxic crayons, markers and glues.
Paper bags, decorated and full of candy.
And completely terrified.
We had three hours of frank conversation about what the world will look like in thirty years.
How it's going to be OK, they didn't mean to scare you, they were trying to teach you..My youngest
Looks up at me and says, "well, it sure scared me when they said the world would be boiling in thirty years and that my kids were going to die."
7 years old. And worrying about how going to the grocery store is going to kill his kids in the future.
Way to go American terroristst!
I mean if we start scaring the be-Jesus out them at a young age,
teach them to fold their hands across their little hearts and pledge under
GOD (whose?)
to serve and love this country,
where it's perfectly fine for the people who are here to put on a fun
event for little kids to help them better LOVE
their earth, Turns into a slide show presentation of the natural disaster our
planet actually is.
Let's not inspire,
Let's Terrorize.
Is this the New American Way?
Well...
I'll be the first Monkey to stand up and say
it's not right. It's down right not ethical....
to use MY TAX PAID for
School To Scare My Kids!
Nope, the Head monkeys's no child left behind and faith based plans are working great here in my hometown.
All Hile the head Monkey.
Who's building a PR campain to invade Iran, and South Americas For more OIL
to continue killing the planet,
so that the eco-terrorists will have continued job security
in the elementary school lecture circuit...
paid for
by my tax dollars.
Yeah, well fuck you.
I'll be the first Monkey.
This is Unethical...
not to mention stupid.
Stupid Shit like this makes me want to be nothing but base human.
And an Ass kicking, white trash southern, fuck you personality comes over me that is almost irresistible at times.
So, please excuse my Saturday rant...but I had to get it out so my day can be wonderful
in the rare and clear
And Freaking even rareer SUN of an OREGON spring
air, water and greenery
which is part of the beautiful
sacred earth I am a good steward of, on/with.
Today we will have a real
EARTH day
we will go out and clean the forest park,
and sing 60's love songs
to our Mother
and Thank her
for our
LIVES.
A-HO!
Let it Be!
No fear, just
LOVE
and a
PLAN
for
action
a plan for
Change.
Being it
not
fearing it.
Bring it Society.
This Monkey will raise her fist
I Will GO
FIRST.
BURN.
See Me.
I am not average,
and I am loaded for
bear.
Yours in the stream
and swimming upstream
people please...
swim UP stream!
Heather

Friday, April 21, 2006

Inspiration Comes Easy

Pinky's Painting...watch out world here she comes! Love it!!! Check her BAD! self out, can I get an Amen from the back? Sistah!
HMBT *Word to your Mother*
Inspiration Comes Easy

BAD! Kitty Art Feedback! Thanks Martha!

BAD! Kitty Art Doll Magnet!

Hi Heather...Swimming Upstream Baby Grrl arrived safe and sound..She reports no trauma physically or psychologically.
She ask that I thank you, once again, for making her a very pretty dress and stunning jewelry as you sent her on her way.
She assures me that she takes this assignment seriously as she graces the front of my frig bringing art and a sense of creativity to it. Thanks also for the fairy magnet...She too as a special place on the side of the frig.
Your talent, and personality helps make your creativity very special and ALIVE! Finally, I hope our paths will cross again....
All the best, Martha
***
Gee, thanks Martha! It's things like this that make me want to keep on keeping on, you my patrons... you humans out there living real life...
YOU are my
Muse, my constant source of inspiration and affirmation.
I thank you for that!
Have a great day,
Heather
Thanks Universe!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio: Original Art With Soul~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog

Quote for the day
***
"The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for - and dying for, if need be - is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful. "
Booker T. Washington
***
What is being for me today?
I sit
think
ponder why am I here?
Answers
possibilities fill
the empty spots in
my heart with
dreams
convictions
desires
truths.
I commune with my truth with my
work,
finding Grace and
asking her to stay for tea.
As we sit and talk in
colors,
tones,
textures
and the shapes of my
inner world...
she is my observer
riding on my shoulder
giving strength where before there was
fear
pain
loss.
I am the bird that
sits in the tree outside
your window
and never stops singing at all.
I am the proof.
I am a symbol of hope.
I am just me.
See Me.
Raw and Radiant!
What are you thinking about today while you work?
Are your questions bringing you closer to not knowing but understanding and loving yourself more fully?
My circle is round today,
and for today I am grateful.
Be well, Be Bold,
Burn.
I am on Fire.
See Me Burning? Feel my heat.
Taste the Steele of my blade if you are on the outside of my safe circle, feel the warmth of my unconditional love if you are on the in. Healthy ruthlessness, and unconditional love are possible if you accept that they can exits at the same time.
BURN Heather Burn.
Yours in the moment,
Heather

Thursday, April 20, 2006

BAD! Kitty SHOUT OUT! Check it!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio
Shout out to my fans!
Thanks for stopping by AND spending time reading AND then buying my WORK! This is a short list of my visitors from around the world in the last 24 hours...Thanks so much, I appreciate your time and energy more than you could ever know.
Come back soon!
Big-Big thanks to you all out in:
Grand Prairie, Alberta
Mimico, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba
***Canada***
Englewood Cliffs, New jersey
Ishj, Kobehavn ~ Denmark
Plano, Texas
Rancho Cordova, California
Sherwood, Oregon
Rego Park, New York
Winter Park, Florida
Milan, Lombardia ~ Italy
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Seattle, Washington
Apache Junction, Arizona
&
Campinas, San Paulo ~ Brazil
***
Thank you again for being here!
Also I sold three new works in the last 24 hours!
FW #13 & #2 are now gone too...and my new works are flying off to new happy patrons everyday....
GO BAD! Kitty GO!
*Artist is wildly happy*
Heather

BAD! Kitty Random Thursday Thought.....


What is a friend? How do you define friendship, and what do you do with it? Proof is in the pudding right?
I found this and loved it…so I thought I would share.

Here goes:
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season!
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant!
Thank you for being a part of My Life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Much Love to the New and the Old,
Heather

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words

Quote of the day
***
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
***
Courage.
What does courage mean to me today?
Being here, doing this, writing these words for you to see, being transparent about my life, and sticking to my guns about the truth of me.
That's my definition of courage for Heather.
Not knowing what will happen, and doing it anyway.
Facing fear.
Knowing my Truths.
Knowing that I define myself by my actions,
my intent,
my passion.
I am.
See Me.
See me,
I am not average.
You are not average.
Let's take over the average world,
Shall we?
Ok, I've got a nice lunch packed, and we will make a day of it.
World take over...
Being the Change starts here
with me.
See me.
I am not average,
and I am full of
courage, fear & Passion.
I use them as fuel today, not weight.
How do you use your fear to propel you?
What's makes you feel courage?
This is mine.
See me
Raw & radiant,
Heather

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ New ART ~

Monster Suit
9 x 12
oil pastels and ink, pens, markers
It says:
Just Wait right there while I slip into something more comfortable.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Metro Portland Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words

Quote for the day
***
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.

Alfred Montapert
***
Bad! Kitty Art Original "The New One"
(please read the essay that follows below...it goes with the painting.)
This painting was most recently featured at the Portland City Hall's Race for the Cure (group show) Month long show.
It has won 3 awards, and been published in 12 magazines, ezines and art/health periodicals in the past year.
30" x 50"oils and metal powders
Gallery wrapped no frame needed ready to hang.
The New OneAn essay by HMBTcopyright 2005
***********
I was seven, when I found out that people get sick, people get cancer, and people can die.
We had just come back from my favorite aunt’s home, where she and I had happily spent the day, making paper clip jewelry, and her famous oatmeal cookies.
All the grown-ups were weird, acting strange and stilted.
I just thought they were being grown-ups…which when I was seven was another word for “crazy” anyway.
We went home, life went on.
Two weeks later, my grandfather sat me down and told me that Aunt Nell had passed away, she had been sick, with cancer for a long time, and that she had lost the battle, gone with God and moved to heaven.
At the funeral, I sat in the pew, sandwiched between my father and grandmother, almost passing out from the White Shoulders my grandmother had bathed in, and my father’s aftershave.
My skirt was new and itchy, and I was hot, and really mad at everyone for not noticing my perfect set of matching jewels, made of paper clips and shelf paper… made by my favorite aunt and myself, in the sun, on the back porch, laughing cookie crumbs at each other.
I had insisted on wearing them, even though they didn’t match my new dress.
She looked beautiful and just like she was asleep, I left my bracelet on her pillow, so she would have something pretty to wear in Heaven.
I’ve still got my necklace and matching ear rings Aunt Nell, I’ll make sure to bring them with me when I come to see you.
I was 20 years old when I found out that people get sick, people get cancer, I had cancer, and I might die.
The doctor sat across from me and solemnly delivered the bad news, six months maybe a little longer; they didn’t know how to stop it.
My son had been born less than a year before, I was an athlete, I took care of myself, I was alone in the world, a single mother, and no family left.
This couldn’t be happening to me, I was not going to die, that I knew when I left the office.
I wasn’t going to die, and that was that.
I’ve been told I am a little stubborn.
He told me to put my life in order, he told me to spend time with my son, and to think about making arrangements for him.
He told me to go home and enjoy what time I had left.
I was 26 years old when I learned that people get sick, people get cancer, I had cancer, and people don’t always die.
I am now 36 years old. I did not go home and give up.
I have three children, after they said it was impossible.
I have no cancer.
I have spent many years recovering, and learning; this world is a magical place, full of magical people.
I am one of them; you are too.
Live each day as if it will end in the next ten seconds. (~Ray Bradbury)
Live each moment, to it’s fullest.We all have a terminal disease; it’s called birth.
The future is no place to put your better days. (~Dave Matthews)
I am still here, and so are you.
Let’s do something about it, with it.
This painting is about my recovery, the friends and family
I have watched make the transition from this life to the next realm, and my personal declaration to the universe
that I am still here,
and that matters to me,
and the people who love me.
I will go when it’s my time,
but not now…until then I am “The New One”.
Heather Brown-Truman www.badkittyartstudio.com
Portland OregonCopyright
HMBT 2005
***********
If you would like to claim this wonderful work as your own, or make a no sales pressure, no obligation to buy anything... appointment to see it in person please contact me, here or thru my web site:
Just hit the "Contact Me" button on any page.
Thanks for being here, have a wonderful day.
Heather

Monday, April 17, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ New ART ~



Putting It Together #2
14" X 11"
oil pastels & Inks on canvas board
I will tell you all the story behind this new series...but for now I just wanted to share! Check my site later for better pictures and pricing.
Here's the quote that inspired the work:
"Reorganize To Create the Illusion of Progress.
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

Gaius Petronius Arbiter
(d. 66 AD) Roman satirist, novelist, director




"Making Progress"
Sculpted plaster and oils on canvas
18" X 24"
More about this new one too...Later on my site, so check there on the front page for info about purchase, or just email me.
Here is the quote that Inspired the work:
"Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress. "

Charles Kettering
Have a happy, Bold Day.
Let's talk...Email me, we'll do lunch....
*artist grins madly*
Heather

Sunday, April 16, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words


Quote for the day
***
"Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . Dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts."

Charles de Gaulle
***
Sometimes the silence can be thunder
the heartbeat
the mouth
the soul
searches for a grip
on the stony surface of
this world.
Sometimes I want to
run
hide
escape
rest.
Sometimes I want to
fight
struggle
learn
fail.
Sometimes I want to
succeed
win
teach
love.
Sometimes I want to
not be who I am.
Sometimes I want to be more.
Sometimes
the silence of the
actions taken
plans made
needs discovered
wants prioritize
obligations met
goals mapped
is a deafening roar
of thunder
to remind me
I am Small
and
Mighty.
See Me.
I am not average.
I will burn this candle at both ends
because
sometimes I want to
be
Raw & radiant,
and
Be Seen for who I am.
I am that flickering light,
fragile as the hand Shields the wick
softly melting wax drips on the skin
to remind us of the delicate nature
of destructive force
used as
Fuel
instead of
Weight.
Yours in Interacting with the Moment,
Heather/Sybil Ann

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Hve a Happy Saturday from BAD! Kitty Art Studio, Portland Oregon~ Artist Blog

BAD! Kitty Art Studio & Sybil Ann Tells All
Quote for the Day
***
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle
***
Burning this house down in the Moment,
The Roof Is On Fire!
Be well,
Heather
Auctions closing soon!
Buy Mom some Flowers that will never Wilt!
Buy her some
BAD! Kitty
Art!
Ebay Sellers name:
badkittyartstudio
or just hit the links...

Friday, April 14, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog ~Quote for the day


BAD! Kitty Art Studio & Sybil Ann Tells All
Quote for the Day
***
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.
***
I am working all day on a new art "show".
Commitment is hard, sticking with it after a long week of hard work, and getting it all done...It's not easy, but I do
feel
so
good
about my current work...And the big "show" for private guests
of a local big wig...Fingers crossed, and relaxing...
I prepare for the event with mixed feelings.
It's a small but important event, and I am looking forward to being in front of people and talking about my work again, after a year off from shows, gallery openings, and events in general.
Now I have a lot of work to share and explore.
It's fun, and scary and
FUN...Because it's my proof in the pudding.
I'll never stop.
There will be no end to my life's work.
I am SO programmed for LIVING!
So all best to all of you out there today,
say break a leg for me tonight,
and have a wonderful Holiday weekend.
I will be busy all weekend, Saturday with Consulting for Clients, and Sunday I Rest... So I won't be blogging again till Monday...Ebay Auctions closing Soon!!! Check out may sales and specials.
Later Tators!
Heather/Sybil Ann

Thursday, April 13, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words

Quote for the day
***
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred Montapert
***
Submerged in concentration.
Work is joy.
I am effortlessly relaxing and coiled for action.
The flow is upon me and my work
is evolutionary in my understanding.
I am concentrating on thinking, what it brings me, what questions asked, and what is answered.
Circumstances.
Reality is just a set of variable circumstances,
choice the gift of the Human being
action is the
virtue of the human soul.
Wisdom comes from not knowing, and doing anyway.
Good Judgment comes from bad judgment.
Editing is the key to a happy life. I started really reading my rough draft of my book last night. Looking over the words, and the editors red slashes and commentary, I remember how painful the first chapters were to write, how I cried and felt. Looking at the words today, I realized the power of the writing, the release of my secrets, my dust bin, what's behind door number three Folks?!
Me.
Truth.
Peace.
Pain.
Me.
Mine.
One.
I am thinking about things today, I am feeling the movement shifting, I am knowing the pressure is building, I am dealing with the knowing, by interacting with my
NOW.
How are you interacting with your Now?
What practices to you employ daily that help you or hinder you in the accomplishment of your personal goal?
These works, these words, these actions taken...
they are mine.
They are
Me.
Raw & Radiant.
Heather / Sybil Ann

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio: Original Art With Soul~ Portland Oregon ~ Artist Blog

Quote of the day
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

A. Lou Vickery
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I am not average.
I am working hard at being what I feel I really am.
talent has little to do with material success.
I am not average.
I am
REAL.
See me.
Raw & radiant.
Yours in the moment,
Heather/Sybil Ann
These are the current BAD! Kitty Ebay Auctions Check em out! Some close in hours, it's your chance to get great art at as much as half my retail prices, which are actually wholesale prices, because I AM the Gallery.
here's some quick links for your ease of shopping:
BAD! Kitty is always here for you and your needy needs for great art, at prices YOU can afford!
BAD! Kitty Art Studio SHOUT OUT to my fans in:
Walloon Lake, Michigan
Katy, Texas
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Olympia. Washington &
Alameda, California
Thank you for stopping by, hope to see you all again soon!
Have a great day!
Heather

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words

BAD! Kitty Art Studio & Sybil Ann Tells All
Quote for the day
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There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . The human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Carl Jung
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Thinking, Bleeding, Being.
I am in a constant state of those states of awareness.
I am thinking about thinking.
What questions my mind asks the divine,
the God of all that loves all and shuns none in my mind.
I am understanding that simply being alive and present in the moment
is simply not enough.
You have to work, all the time at excellence.
I will never and don't want perfection.
I want my best.
I want the best I can give, do, create, what am I really capable of.
I realize that being the change requires the constant effort
to be and not be at the same time.
To accept circumstances, reality
and chose to change it at the same time.
To alter the perception of my higher self
the one that inhabits this
body, this human form I have taken
to
do
something.
I am the change because I chose to participate in all of the endless work and effortless
casualness of this reality.
My programming is geared towards pleasing myself, yes...
in a way that benefits not just me though.
My mission statement in this life includes the statement....
"I will willingingly be open to learning the lessons and information I need to best of best service to all of mankind."
sound like a lofty hippie goal to you?
Well, the old me when I wrote that line, years ago now has become the part of my mission that is
in this reality to
process,
progress,
plan,
pay attention,
take action
today.
I am the duality of being and still
and moving at light speed
at the same time.
Quantum Machinery, programmed for the ultimate experience
Living Free.
Free of past, present and future.
In the Now
and actively participating in it.
I think we have enough in the NOW time too,
(refers to the philosophy on the subject: Ken Wilbur)
I am about doing something with the now.
OCD about doing something, interaction,
understanding,
action, choices,
am I striving with every action for my highest self?
I ask that it all come from that place, how can I
participate in the
being.
I don't meditate, so much as I write,
I create,
I share that here and in my works.
I am living the duality, thinking about that,
and talking with my soul today...
listening to what
I have to say, what I feel is right,
delegating tasks, to the self
to the ego
to the divine.
I am living and relaxing into that at the same time...
freaky huh?
It's cool, and feels good
power is in my self control
virtue is the proof in the pudding of my actions
choices are sets of circumstances that are really opportunity
in disguise.
I am living wide open,
and yes it's scary as shit.
The air up here is good,
my view clear,
and I have a plan.
I am working, and relaxing with the work...
duality requires participation and a
constant amount of pressure/no pressure.
Have a great day,
think about thinking and what questions does your
mind bring to you?
Are they questions that can bring positive answers?
I am concentrating on what I am asking for, and how.
Form is everything.
Yours, in the moment.
Heather
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BAD! Kitty Daily Shout OUT!
Thanks so much to all my fans out there in:
Atlanta, Georgia
Jackson, Tennessee
Wabash, Indiana
London, Ontario
Holbrook, Arizona &
Zurich, Switzerland !!!
thank you for your time and energy, I appreciate it more than you know! See you again soon!
HMBT

Monday, April 10, 2006

Inspiration Comes Easy

Inspiration Comes Easy

Well, folks, this is a first for me. One of my biggest patrons and now blooming real relationship, inspired her to start painting her own work again and she painted a painting about me! Me, Me, Me! No one has ever done nothing like that for me before....you should take a look at the work, it's GREAT! She's great, I am great, let's everyone gather hands and sing round the fire shall we?! I Love it, it's great, and I am feeling great today, and well this was just a reaaly nice suprise, for someone who has the social like of a hermit crab....Wow...a real human friend...who woulda knew?
Much Love!!! You and me Pinky...let's take over the World! Bwhahahahah!
Heather

BAD! Kitty SHOUT OUT! Check it!


BAD! Shout Out!
Big Big thanks to my fans out in:
Columbus, Starkville,& Sandhill, Mississippi
desert Hot Springs, Sunnyvale, & Walnut Creek, California
Light Street, Pennsylvania
Newberg, Portland, & West Linn, Oregon.
Thanks for stopping by, nice seeing you folks!
Take it easy, hope to see you again soon!
Heather

BAD! Kitty Art Studio PDX Metro Portland Oregon~ recycled art, Original oil paintings,& motivational words



BAD! Kitty Art Studio & Sybil Ann Tells All

Quote for the day

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If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

Chuang Tzu

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Beginning the new week, Monday.

Action and plans that were made while I forced to be quiet while dealing with the Flu from Hell that took me out for more than a week flat. I worked on art and wrote down ideas about what I am doing, where am I going, what is my mission statement today, as is. What are my goals, now...short term and long? What the heck do I really expect from this life? I also had time to go through the back storage room of the studio, with my manager and a fresh set of eyes.

They made me sit and watch them bring out to me the contents of the room. The cumulative whole of an entire years worth of work, that no one has ever seen. Because I took a years off from the shows, galleries, agents, Mega marketing in general of my work went down to a static level, while I spent a year...Just Working.

The experience of sitting there and watching art come out that I had forgotten I had even done, was like Christmas and having a fresh band-aid ripped off real fast when you are not looking.

I felt proud each time I heard from the back room (the place is small) OOhhhs, and wows look at this one, and they would bring it out and my fever crazed brain would be all excited and trying to recapture the moments of each creation.

Looking back over the work, seeing the growth I have made by becoming incredibably focused on what I really want in this life.

My wants and need list turned out to be pretty damn short over all.

I just want to be happy.

That looks and feels like the words I write everyday in this blog, the tears spilt, the lessons learned, the pain, the joy, the absolute scared crapless about not knowing anything, and doing it anyway.

My life is my ultimate work of art.

I am the ultimate canvas, and I will work on my masterpiece until I stand in the clearing at the end of the path.

I will never be done growing, learning, changing.

I am grateful for the time to think, melt down, re-group even if it took the freaking Flu to make me stop and look, no... not look, but SEE

the growth, the change, the joy, the pain.

It is MINE,

world this is me.

Raw & radiant,

bring shades, I am still on my

way, this is my mark, this is my proof of change, this is my life, this is a real human, working, feeling, breathing, heart beating, pain having, just as ordinary freaking human as all of you reading this. I am HERE. I am ReaL, I am passionate about LIVING.

All of it, bring it Universe. I am living arms wide open.

I have the courage to face it, myself & the truths of my life, and the conviction of faith to carry it all out.

Bring it Universe, bring my chaos, my change, my plans set into action, my goals realized, my failures, my rejections, my glory in finding the important connections.

Let each of my heartbeats today count, for the actions I take bring me what I want, what I need and simply put all I need is to work, love and continue to grow, learn, share that experience.

For I am The Change.

I am The Chaos.

I am that hope, the bird that sits in the tree of the secret inner garden, and never stops singing at all.

Be well today.

Yours in every action packed moment,

Heather/Sybil Ann

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

http://www.sybilanntellsall.com

http://www.badkittyartstudio.blogspot.com

Scroll down to see the most current auctions some are closing soon, and some have tons of watchers but no bids so you still have a chance to WIN the BAD! Kitty Art Lotto, you have to Bid to Play, so check out the ebay stuff!

Thanks...That's called asking for the sale...One of the many, many small actions I take every day to show my intent to you, myself and the universe.

I am successful when I feel/say I am.

I feel it today.

So that's that.

Have a great day, I wish for you that feeling of inner accomplishment in your day today.

Go forward with Confidence, Rinse, Repeat.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ New ART ~Putting together DONE!






BAD! Kitty Art Studio......TA-DA!
New Art.
Presenting....
"Putting it all together"
16" wide by 10" high.
vintage wooden frame, and two collaged 5"X7" panels made up primarily of one of my own works cut up and re-worked in bits.
I love it.
I will be putting it up on ebay and the site soon, let me know if you just have to have it...I'll understand...she's Fun!
Scroll down to read more about her if you like, when she was in the works....
Gotta go to bed,
Say good nite BAD! Kitty...
Good Nite,
Heather

Friday, April 07, 2006

BAD! Kitty New Art in progress..."Putting It all together"



BAD! Kitty New Art in progress...
"Putting it all together"
two 5 " X 7" canvas boards, mixed media, and they have the coolest double table top frame that the panels will go into..When it's dry, that is. Click on the images to enlarge.
I thought you guys might get a kick out of seeing something in the "works" for a change of pace.
Here is A shout out to my fans in Denver Colorado, Bogota Colombia, Walnut Grove California & The Republic of Korea Seoul! Thanks for stopping by you guys! Ya'll come back soon now, ya hear...that's Southern for thanks, please come back and spend some money...just kidding, just come back and check in again soon, it is nice seeing you guys around the place, and I just wanted to say thanks for being here.
This is the quote that inspired the work:
"Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. "

Kahlil Gibran
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I am putting it all together today.
What are you up to?
Yours in the moment,
Heather